Since our campaign to crowd source a new deal plan for manufacturing the media and social media are increasingly focusing on manufacturers. A recent 7 News report was sparked by our report that Woolworths had reshored the manufacture of its Little Ones nappies, starting with locally made crawler, walker and toddler sizes. Ontex Australia will…
Telemedicine device manufacturer Visionflex has added an ultrasound capability (pictured) to its ProEx Telehealth Hub remote healthcare system. The system connects patients and medical practitioners in remote areas via satellite, allowing remote monitoring of patients and diagnosis of health conditions. Using a range of devices such as digital cameras, pulse oximiters, ECG heart monitors, thermometers…
A duplex in Matraville in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been completed to lock up stage in 10 days using an innovative locally prefabricated construction system. The prefab system is the fastest panelised house construction system in Australia, according to its developer Panelup Systems, and can speed up home construction by more than 50 per cent.…
Analysis by Peter Roberts Australian science and industry has a surprisingly key role to play in the new more potent defensive stance announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday. Many of the systems envisaged such as hypersonic cruise missiles, directed energy weapons and our own satellites are still in the development phase. However the past…
Ellex Medical Lasers will be reborn with the new name of Nova Eye Medical and will develop new opthalmic treatments following the completion of the sale of its opthalmic laser (pictured) and ultrasound businesses. The company told investors it had completed the sale of the businesses, together with the Ellex name, to London’s Lumibird Group…
Industrial automation group SAGE Automation has introduced the SAGE Edge, an IoT capture device and gateway providing insight for managing travel time and pedestrian data. SAGE Edge can be used in many applications including smartcity data collection, transport travel time data, tourism pedestrian data and general IoT data management. Already being utilised by local government,…
LBT Innovations Ltd’s APAS Independence machine has been tested on laboratory specimens from 4,603 patients at America’s prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital and passed with a perfect, or perhaps better than perfect, result. The APAS Independence technology uses an algorithm to detect bacterial colonies on laborature culture slides and incorporates computer vision to hasten the time…
By Denham Sadler The controversial proposed changes to the R&D tax incentive will be applied retrospectively for the 2019-20 financial year if the legislation is eventually passed by Parliament later this year, a senate inquiry has heard. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee held a public hearing for its inquiry into the government’s planned reforms to…
Animal feeds producer Ridley Corporation has commissioned its new poultry and pig feedmill at Wellsford near Bendigo in Victoria. All production has been successfully transferred from the former Bendigo mill to Wellsford, with the old site now closed and being readied for sale. The new feedmill has a capacity of 350,000 tonnes a year, with…
Technology developer Silex Systems has successfully completed the first stage of a three-year project to develop production systems to make zero-spin silicon (ZS-Si) for use in silicon quantum computing chips. Silex has demonstrated the production of 99.95 per cent isotopic purity material at the laboratory scale using the company’s Silex laser isotope separation technology. The…
