Queensland left hand drive vehicle conversion company AUSEV has signed a purchase order for one stripped electric vehicle chassis from US manufacturer Xos Inc. The company, which has plans to add EV production to its current vehicle conversion business, said in a statement it had ‘started conversations on working towards a manufacturing and distribution partnership…
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The completion rate for apprentices and trainees who commenced training in 2017 decreased to 55.7 percent, down by 1.2 percentage points from those commencing in 2016, according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Completion and attrition rates for apprentices and trainees 2021 reports on the completion rates for…
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Global companies will gather in South Australia later this year to discuss how industry can transition to clean energy. By Kurtis Eichler Future Energy Week will bring about 400 delegates from national and international companies, governments and academia for the event in November. It’s the second year the Tonsley Future Energy Consortium has hosted the event,…
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Sixteen finalists for the WA Innovator of The Year program have been announced, with six recipients to share in a prize pool of $140,000. Finalists include innovators developing anti-antimicrobial resistant bacteria technology, a smart walking stick for Parkinson’s disease sufferers, and a novel blood pump for open heart surgery. “It’s vitally important that we not…
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Any hopes that A2 Milk could emulate competitor Bubs Australia’s stellar success this year in the US Market have been dashed, at least for the moment with the company receiving an adverse notification from the US Food and Drug Administration. A2 Milk had hoped to be able to secure enforcement discretion to import infant formula…
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Prefabricated home and office company ModnPods plans to double the size of its Arundel, Gold Coast facilities to around 6,000 square metres and make 100 hires over the next three years.
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The federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation has announced a $160 million investment to link the upcoming Southern Downs Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) to the national energy grid. According to an announcement from the cleantech investment body, it is the first REZ it has funded, and the project “will unlock an additional 500 MW of…
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Two South Australian companies have been awarded a contract to build and supply a mobile launch rail for Australian spaceport and space mission provider Southern Launch. Ferretti International and Hydroil have been awarded contracts to build the mobile launch rail which is funded by an almost $1 million dollar grant awarded to Southern Launch as…
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CSIRO has opened a new $23.1 million national laboratory in Melbourne that will bolster the nation’s ability to produce vaccines and drug treatments onshore. Researchers at CSIRO’s National Vaccine and Therapeutics Lab will turn vaccine and drug candidates into products that can be manufactured in quantity for clinical trials. According to a statement from CSIRO,…
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Manufacturing is viewed by some as a fading sector, inevitably being replaced by new, knowledge and service based industries in developed countries such as the US, UK and Australia. But a study of the behaviour of manufacturing companies over time by researchers at Princeton University has demonstrated that as manufacturing itself changes, it changes the…
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