New manufacturing facility for medtech startups opened in Brisbane
The T3 Cleanrooms at Brisbane’s Translational Research Institute were officially launched on Wednesday.
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Navi device aims to help ill newborns
Navi Medical Technologies will use an NHMRC Development Grant worth $879,000 to progress commercialisation of its innovative instrument which gives ill newborn infants the chance of better treatments. The National Health and Medical Research Council grant will take research on improving the care of vulnerable neonates to the proof-of-concept stage, a critical step on the…
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Uni of Adelaide, BAE Systems, Defence to establish Centre for High Frequency Technologies
BAE Systems Australia, Defence and University of Adelaide have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on HF radar, including establishment of a new Centre for High Frequency Technologies.
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NSW buys 2,000 rail cars from overseas in 10 years
Analysis by Peter Roberts The New South Wales government have ordered close to 2,000 rail carriages and tram cars from overseas in only 10 years, putting the lie to the government’s suggestion that it is forced to buy trains overseas, according to a new analysis by the Australian Manufacturing Forum. According to analysis for @AuManufacturing…
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Next Science raise $15 million cash from investors Anti-microbial drug development company Next Science has completed a $15 million capital raising, with the closure of a $5 million share purchase plan. The raising was $4.2 million over-subscribed. This follows an earlier raising from institutional investors. The cash will help fund the commercial release in the…
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BAE completes upgrades of HMAS Warramunga
HMAS Warramunga has been relaunched from the BAE Systems Australia Henderson shipyard in Western Australia, the third Anzac class frigate to receive a full ANZAC Mid Life Capability Assurance Program (AMCAP) upgrade at the yard. (AMCAP) is an ongoing upgrade which focuses on updating ageing platform systems, communications, installation of Long Range Air Search Radar…
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Queensland joins WA in move to boost train manufacturing
The Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has promised a $1 billion railcar construction pipeline for the regional city of Maryborough, joining WA which this week provided the first tranche of funds towards its own local railcar manufacturing programme. The promise, which would apply should Labor be re-elected at the coming state election, includes $600 million for…
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New funding boost for space traffic radar project
Silentium Defence has secured a $3.2m contract from the Australian Department of Defence to advance, deploy and demonstrate its passive radar system for monitoring traffic in space.
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Lion to close Adelaide’s iconic Westend Brewery
Brewer Lion has announced that it will close the Westend Brewery in Adelaide in June next year and supply the once-iconic beer from its interstate operations. The brand has a 160 year history but sales have been fading in recent years. However the decision by Lion, part of Japan’s Kirin, to close the Port Road…
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CSIRO and Amaero develop better cooling for die cast tooling
CSIRO and Amaero International have announced the results of a project to add conformal cooling channels to additively manufactured die cast tooling.
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