Hungry Jack’s fast food chain has surprised the market announcing that it will launch a new plant-based burger on natonal markets tomorrow. Hungry Jack’s CEO Chris Green issued a brief press release on the Labour Day public holiday (today) announcing the new burger, to be known as the Rebel Whopper would be available in all…
Comment by Peter Roberts Adelaide’s ASC Pty Ltd, which built the Collins class submarines in Australia, is performing submarine design work for Sweden. The agreement which sees the submarine builder working on Sweden’s A26 submarine programme, was first announced, was announced in November, but resurfaced in the media in the past week. ASC is now…
Hydrogen Mobility Australia has been renamed and relaunched as the Australian Hydrogen Council to recognise hydrogen’s widening economic impact. The group, founded in 2017 by Toyota and Hyundai, has grown from a membership group representing hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles to become peak body for the wider hydrogen industry. It now boasts 34 members…
Australia’s rebooted space industry is positioning itself as a world leader in the development of smart satellites and associated technologies that will streamline communication, drive the Internet of Things, enhance Earth Observation and shape the defence forces of the future. The Australian Government backed SmartSat CRC – or Cooperative Research Centre – played a leading…
Listed gut health company Immuron (ASX: IMC) has received a $5.5 million grant from the US Department of Defence to develop a new oral drug targeting bacteria that cause ill health. The company, which markets Travelan for the prevention of travellers’ diarrhoea, will develop a combination anti-microbial preventative medicine for clinical evaluation. The product will…
Perth satellite IoT communications company Sky and Space Global (ASX: SAS) is to raise new funds from investors to fund building and launching eight nano-satellites. Shareholders at a special meeting approved a proposed share placement and additions to the company’s board of directors. The company issued a brief statement which said: “Following shareholder approval, SAS…
Cortical Dynamics has received regulatory approval which will lead on to an ability to sell its brain anaesthetic response monitoring (BARM) system device in South Korea. The Perth company’s Korean distributor, Globaluck, received a certificate of approval from the Korea Good Manufacturing Practice, according to an announcement by Cortical shareholder, bphenergy (ASX: BPH). The approval…
CSIRO, Main Sequence Ventures and Jack Cowin’s Competitive Foods Australia have teamed up to back v2food, a start-up developing a plant-based meat substitute. The company, headed by former Masterfoods and PepsiCo Research Director, Nick Hazell, will likely sell its product through the Hungry Jack’s chain, part of Competitive Foods ‘whch has provided start-up capital. Head…
France’s Schneider Electric which has a large Australian manufacturing footprint has been awarded the important contract to supply DC switchboards to the $50 billion Attack class submarine programme. The company, which employs 4,000 in Australia including at its large Clipsal facility in Adelaide, will transfer technolocy to its local arm to enable it to make…
Magnis Energy (ASX: MNS) has moved a step closer to a go ahead for its proposed billion dollar lithium ion battery plant with the submission of a feasibility study to the Queensland government. The study, which examined the building of an 18GWh mega factory in three stages at Townsville, concludes the plant would cost $3…
