The NSW government is aiming to boost R&D in the state via Parliamentary Secretary Gabrielle Upton’s new advisory council. But what’s the best way for the government to support startups, industry and academia to create new jobs and foster investments?
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Listed health and beauty products manufacturer Star Combo Pharma has announced that it will increase capacity at its nutraceutical manufacturing site in Smithfield, in Sydney’s southwest, through an $11 million investment including in 13 new production lines.
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Trust in the iconic Australian Made kangaroo logo is at a high, with new Roy Morgan research finding 92 per cent of Australians are confident products displaying the logo are made in Australia, up from 88 per cent in 2019. The research also found that 97 per cent of people understand the link with associating…
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Ballarat manufacturer Gekko Medical has received an order from the Victorian State Government for 170 of its GeVentor invasive ventilators designed and made in Australia. The GeVentors are expected to be available within five weeks and will be used in health services across the state. The order follows permission for the GeVentor to progress into…
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Australian semiconductor manufacturer BluGlass Limited has been awarded a grant from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) to help develop its core technology. The $250,000 matched funding grant will assist the development and commercialisation of BluGlass’ breakthrough deposition technology called Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (RPCVD). In July @AuManufacturing reported that Bluglass had developed and…
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Grants totalling $731,000 have been awarded to seven enterprises under the NSW government’s Circulate Program, managed by the state’s EPA, aiming to decrease waste of glass, textiles, food and other materials.
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TAE Aerospace has increased its engine maintenance work for the Air Force and is working with General Electric International Incorporated (GEII) to export its innovations, according to the defence minister.
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In this sponsored article in @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s niche champions series, William Lebihan of SMC Corporation looks at the trend towards reshoring, and some of the support available from global technology leaders. One of the many learnings over the past few months is that of self-sufficiency. In the past, Australia, like many other countries, gradually outsourced a large…
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A South Australian company that developed an acoustic listening device for monitoring the health of wind turbines has begun commercial production for the huge US market.
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Two straight months of growth for manufacturing came to an end in August, according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index, with the Melbourne lockdown contributing to the negative result.
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