Assistant Minister for Manufacturing Tim Ayres has hopes of Australia moving into wind farm manufacturing in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. Visiting BlueScope Steel at Coniston last week Ayres said he was keen to discuss with the company the potential for developing further manufacturing in the light of $55 million in Commonwealth’s support…
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In episode 12 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski, we hear from Phil West, co-founder of Siren Cameras. West comes from a family of fishers, and moved to Australia from Scotland a decade ago. A few years back he was out bluewater fishing, caught nothing all day, then found himself in a 15-minute battle with what…
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@AuManufacturing has partnered with International Exhibition & Conference Group to support an upcoming Modern Manufacturing Expo in Sydney in September which will showcase Australia’s capabilities and achievements. International Exhibition & Conference Group and media partner @AuManufacturing News are excited to invite you to attend the inaugural Modern Manufacturing Expo on Tuesday 20 – Wednesday 21…
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@AuManufacturing has partnered with International Exhibition & Conference Group to support an upcoming Modern Manufacturing Expo in Sydney in September which will showcase Australia’s capabilities and achievements. Here we look at factory automation. Boosting Australia’s competitiveness and reshoring manufacturing has become a hot topic of conversation for government and local manufacturers in recent years. These…
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@AuManufacturing has partnered with International Exhibition & Conference Group to support an upcoming Modern Manufacturing Expo in Sydney in September which will showcase Australia’s capabilities and achievements. There’s no denying it: a new era of ‘Modern’ Manufacturing has arrived in Australia. But in order to harness the possibilities unlocked by implementing advanced manufacturing techniques, local…
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A new government has come to power in Canberra, and has announced its intentions of reinvigorating manufacturing. @AuManufacturing has partnered with International Exhibition & Conference Group to support an upcoming Modern Manufacturing Expo in Sydney in September which will showcase Australia’s capabilities and achievements. Here Marie Kinsella looks at what we can expect from the…
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Veterans Affairs and Defence Personnel minister Matt Keogh has outlined the federal government’s approach to making science, technology, innovation and industry capability central to defending Australia in a major speech in Perth. Speaking at the 2022 Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference today, Keogh said the new government saw defence industry as a priority, and…
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By Peter Roberts Companies have begun to receive belated notices from the federal government that their applications for grant support under the Morrison government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative, with IDT Australia one that has opted for a full strategic review following news its bid for a MMI grant had failed. Industry minister Ed Husic this week…
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A flight testing program for hypersonic vehicles led by the University of Southern Queensland was awarded a $1,009,570 ARC Linkage Projects grant this week. USQ said in a statement on Friday that the project would see the team design “a suite of new instruments suiting various platforms (airborne, ground-based and high-altitude drones) for observing high-speed…
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Defence manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has confirmed its involvement in the US President Joe Biden’s latest assistance measures to Ukraine, with its equipment part of a system that can launch guided weapons from the tray of a utility vehicle. An EOS gimbal mounting system is part of the Vampire counter-drone system, itself part of a…
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