Australian manufacturers change hands every day, but for Affinity Windows, part of BCG Australia WA, preparing for sale sparked a root and branch modernisation of operations. Peter Roberts reports. Affinity Windows is well known in Western Australia, supplying residential and commercial customers with aluminium windows, doors, security products, shower screens and robes. Fairly standard products…
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A second Australian-developed and manufactured Covid-19 vaccine has surfaced with the University of Adelaide commencing human trials of its new vaccine that targets the highly-transmissible Omicron variant of the disease. Manufactured by Adelaide company BioCina, the university’s DNA-based vaccine is being trialled at Royal Adelaide Hospital in partnership with PARC Clinical Services and SA Pathology.…
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Australia’s electricity generators would be paid extra money to be available even if they don’t actually generate any energy, under a new mechanism proposed by the federal government’s Energy Security Board (ESB).
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With the construction of one type of submarines cancelled, and a second being investigated but not yet ordered, Michael Slattery says defence industry is getting nervous about investing in a perhaps uncertain future. Here he looks at how we got to where we are today, and what might be. In the late 1950’s and early…
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Twenty emerging researchers have been awarded funding under the state government’s WA Near Miss Awards (WANMA) program, including those developing tests and monitoring for sepsis, and new vaccines for respiratory illnesses.
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A long-running quarterly industrial survey has found conditions were expansionary in the June quarter, but growth is being held back by labour and material pressures as bad as they’ve been in a half-century.
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A new agrifood technology venture capitalist is on track to raise $50 million to back the development of novel food products as well as automation in growing and production. Mandalay Venture Partners has more than $21 million in commitments towards closing its first fund with motoring organisation NRMA and leading technology players among investors. Mandalay…
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NeuRizer has executed an Infrastructure utilisation Licence Agreement with the South Australian government allowing the exclusive use of existing infrastructure at the site of the NeuRizer Urea Project (NRUP), at Leigh Creek in the north of the state. The agreement allows for significant efficiencies and cost savings by leveraging existing infrastructure on site, which once…
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Boundary Power has been selected to deliver the power upgrade of the Broome North Wastewater Treatment Plant owned by the Western Australian Water Corporation. The company’s Kiosk Renewable Stand-Alone Power System (SAPS) will be incorporated into existing infrastructure to provide safe, reliable, off-grid solar and battery power. The system can deliver larger loads, with a…
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A team led by Sydney biomedical engineer Dr Arnold Lining Ju (pictured) is developing a biomedical micro-device to detect subtle platelet changes in a drop of blood, predicting a a heart attack or stroke before it takes place. Using a pin-prick test, the micro-device would take a blood sample from a person’s finger to be…
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