Infant formula manufacturer Bubs Australia is to have a Chinese-label version of its goat milk infant formula products manufactured in China to take advantage of increasing ‘buy China’ sentiment among consumers. The company, which made cross-border sales in the past year of Australian made infant formula in China worth $42 million, will continue to sell…
Days taken off work by employees for mental health reasons have jumped 19 per cent in the past three years as the covid pandemic continues to take its toll on workplaces, according to a new study. The research by leading Workers’ Compensation insurer, Allianz Australia also found that 42 per cent of surveyed employees and…
The Defence Innovation Hub has awarded contracts worth $27 million to ten Australian businesses, including a Tasmanian research organisation. Defence industry minister Pat Conroy said: “Investing in Australian innovation is critical to building our national defence capability. “The contracts being announced reflect the ingenuity of Australia’s defence industry, and the Albanese Government’s commitment to building…
By Peter Roberts The latest report from the same mob whose policies brought you today’s fragile and narrowly based economy – the Productivity Commission – gives us more of the same faith in markets as suitable drivers of an economy that has so patently hobbled productivity growth. The PC, and its ally the Treasury have…
Syringe-free vaccination technology company Vaxxas is to receive an $8.2 million grant to support the scale up of manufacturing at its Australian manufacturing facility. The Cambridge Massachusetts and Australian company was awarded the second round grant as part of the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI) to support manufacture of its skin patch which delivers…
Medical device technology company Seer Medical has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for use of its ambulatory epilepsy monitoring system ‘Seer Home’ in the US. The company’s at-home monitoring system and wearable medical devices have already been used by 11,000 Australians, with a larger US market now opening up – around 3.4…
Changes to electric vehicle policies foreshadowed by the federal government have encouraged electric truck manufacturer SEA Electric to double the size of its local assembly facility for zero-emission trucks in Dandenong, Melbourne. The company, which team its EV drive trains to OEM supplied truck chassis here and in the United States, will expand its present…
The US Department of Homeland Security has extended its contract with carbon fibre nanotube X-Ray machine manufacturer Micro-X to continue the development of a Miniaturised CT Baggage Scanner. DHS also exercised an option to continue the Passenger Self-Screening Checkpoint design (pictured), with the two contracts are now valued at US$4.5 million to the Adelaide company.…
Australian hydrogen electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer H2X Global has released details and photographs of its long awaited Warrego hydrogen powered utility vehicle (pictured). The Australian company is moving to achieve European compliance for the vehicle, to be followed by Australian compliance. Based on the Ford Ranger utility, the utility is being converted to include the…
By Peter Roberts The federal government has had two attempts to mimic the success of Britain’s Catapult centres and Germany’s Fraunhofer technology and innovation centres, places where industrial technologies are developed, scaled up and realised in partnership with industry, publicly funded researchers and government. Neither of the two attempts, the first by a Labor government…
