When I grew up in Adelaide there was a feeling that South Australia was the centre of manufacturing. The home of Holden and Chrysler, of the Hills Hoist and Lightburn washing machine, Scott Bonnar mowers, Perry Engineering, Horwood Bagshaw agricultural equipment and Actil sheets. For a while it seemed the centre of the manufacturing universe…
A new generation fire truck (main picture) has rolled out of the production line at North Sunshine, Melbourne-based R. A. Bell for use by the Victorian Country Fire Authority. Eighteen new trucks incorporating the lessons from the recent summer of extreme bushfires are in production with another 25 to be manufactured next year. Bell Fire…
Medical device and digital healthcare group Adherium has teamed up with US telemedicine provider HGE Health to offer its digital solutions to treat respiratory patients. Pennsylvania-based HGE will evaluate and integrate Adherium’s Hailie technology to remotely monitor patient usage of inhaled respiratory drugs used to treat conditions such as asthma and potentially covid-19. The company’s…
Little Green Pharma has made the first-ever export shipment of Australian medicinal cannabis destined for patients in the United Kingdom. The Perth company announced its cannabis oils products would be distributed in the UK by Astral Health and follows the opening up of import procedures by the UK Home Office. LGP managing director Fleta Solomon…
Researchers at the University of New South Wales have published breakthrough research which will allow the temperature at which quantum computers work to be raised from today’s temperatures of close to absolute zero degrees Kelvin. A team led by Professor Andrew Dzurak showed in a paper just published in the journal, Nature that quantum computers…
The South Australian government is to build a new technical college in Adelaide’s western suburbs to help students into trades pathways in high demand jobs such as defence and shipbuilding. The government will partner with Catholic Education (CESA) to deliver a almost $5 million expansion of the Rosewater Trade Training Centre, close to naval shipbuilding…
Innovation is featuring in submissions so far in our campaign to crowd source a continues @AuManufacturing’s campaign to crowd source a new deal manufacturing policy with eight keys to unlocking our manufacturing future. Send your ideas or make a submission to [email protected]”>new deal plan for manufacturing. Today Tom Kenyon looks at how to kickstart new…
Chemicals business Alexium International Group has signed an agreement to supply bedding manufacturer Soft-Tex International with its Alexicool phase change material (PCM) products. Soft-Tex will exclusively use Alexicool products for top-of-bed and mattress applications for an initial period of two years. It will also utilise Alexium’s analytical services supporting its product, which provide thermal regulation…
Building products group Boral is cutting down on work shifts and closing plants as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cuts demand in all geographies in which it operates. The company told investors that most of the company’s plants were regarded as critical infrastructure and continued operating, including its US fly ash business (pictured) which is an…
Biotechnology giant CSL is experiencing some disruption due to the coronavirus as well as deploying its capabilities in the fight against the disease according to a market update. The Melbourne company told investors that expertise in three areas was being deployed to support the global response to the Covid-19 coronavirus. Immunological science, vaccinology and protein…
