Comment by Peter Roberts In many ways Robert Bosch was a jewel in the crown of the automotive manufacturing sector which largely upped and left our shores over a year ago. The company designed and built many of the body electronic units at the heart of modern automobile, the on board computer that can control…
2018 was a record year for new large scale renewable energy generation plants built in Australia, according to new figures from the Clean Energy Regulator. The regulator’s December Large Scale Renewable Energy target (LRET) market highlights, reported that large scale photo voltaic projects were the major contributor to accredited national capacity which has reached 3.3…
A Shorten government would provide $1 billion in funding to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation should it be elected in the 2019 election to kick start large-scale hydrogen energy exports. A day after promising to reform Australian industry participation in major projects, opposition leader Shorten promised to double the CEFC’s capital to $10 billion. One…
Mystery surrounds a major new force in the cabinet making industry, with photographs revealed of a massive ‘almost fully automated kitchen manufacturing facility approaching completion’. Well known machinery and automation CEO Gavin Dunwoodie, of Products for Industry group, posted the photograph above of the facility which had finishing touches completed over the New Year. Dunwoodie…
Treasury Estates Wines (ASX: TEW) the maker of Australia’s most prestigious wines has announced the sudden departure of its chief operating officer for unspecified ‘breaches’ of company policies. The company, which makes Grange hermitage, Wolf Blass, Lindeman’s and Rosemount wines announced yesterday that Robert Foyle had ‘left the company’. This was “…effective immediately, due to…
The ALP has promised to boost Australian industry participation in public and private projects, should it come to power nationally at the 2019 election. Industry spokesman, Senator Kim Carr announced today a Local Projects, Local Jobs plan that includes two significant changes. Under the plan, government contracts above $10 million in value would have to…
Sydney’s Suba Enginerering is poised to launch an upgrade to its successful SubaScope digital microscope used for inspection in electronics manufacturing. The company, which launched its first locally engineered and made microscope in September, has added new features and retained the same low cost that has seen it sell more than 200 systems in only…
Trade minister, Simon Birmingham has reached agreement with the United Kingdom to secure Australian export trade for products should Britain depart the European Union without a comprehensive Brexit agreement. Senator Birmingham announced that current EU arrangements would continue to apply to Australian exports to the UK post-Brexit. “This will mean Australian exporters can continue to…
Canberra’s CEA Technologies and Perth’s Austal (ASX: ASB) are the first manufacturers to receive federal government loans from the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) to boost Australian defence exports. A loan of $90 million has been made to CEA to help build a new manufacturing plant to build its CEAFAR phased array radars in…
Australians are setting up online businesses in ever greater numbers, but only a fraction of Australian companies are selling goods offshore. A global survey by payments company, Stripe, found 66 per cent of Australian online businesses were selling offshore. This is a higher level of internationalisation than businesses in the United States, where 45 per…
