Company behind Australian Covid therapeutic anticipates human trials this year
University of Melbourne spinout business Esfam Biotech says it is on schedule to begin human trials of their new Covid-19 therapy in 2021.
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Barrett Releases the HF Radio Mailbox
HF radio manufacturer Barrett Communications has released its new 4020 HF Radio Mailbox. Part of Barrett’s HF Fax and Data System used worldwide for the past 15 years, the new Radio Mailbox delivers IMAP synchronised email over HF Radio and onto users’ smart devices. A feature previously unavailable to the HF radio user, it allows…
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Equipping Australia’s armed forces – Make Our Future Together by Tom Kenyon
Our editorial series – Equipping Australia’s armed forces – continues today with an analysis of China and the global political situation. Here Tom Kenyon outlines how collaboration to strengthen strategic supply chains will drive value-adding and manufacturing. If there’s one word that contains some of the hardest challenges the western world will face in the…
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Melbourne autonomous EV company expects to hire 20 as trials, production begin
Autonomous electric vehicle company Applied EV has been awarded Victorian government support, and expects to welcome 20 new employees to its new Bayswater North facility over the next two years.
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Queensland machinery maker achieves first Chilean export
Phibion, a former Queensland Export Award Winner, will ship the first of its machines bound for Chile this week.
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Federal government announces winners in $50 million-plus of modernisation grants
Companies including Bickford’s Australia (receiving $1 million for an automated bottling line), Calix ($1 million for equipment to produce bioactive materials) and Jenkin Bros Engineers ($522,421 for a new line for specialty metal products) were among recipients. A full list can be seen below.
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Liveris calls for innovation policy overhaul
Australia needs a fundamental change in its approach to innovation and exports to capitalise on the government’s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative, according to the scheme’s chief architect Andrew Liveris, who says the federal policy should guide an overhaul of the national economy.
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Breakthrough could see cheaper, better bandages with built-in infection detection
RMIT University researchers have published results pointing the way to manufacturing of antimicrobial wound care products with built-in nanosensors.
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Can manufacturing escape new Covid strains?
By Peter Roberts Sitting in my hotel room in Melbourne I am beginning to feel anxious at being away from home with the onset of a Sydney lockdown that bodes ill for this latest round of Covid-19. With just over three per cent of our population vaccinated fully, and government and citizens in Sydney clearly…
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Equipping Australia’s armed forces – equipping for future wars by Gregor Ferguson
Our editorial series – Equipping Australia’s armed forces – asks what war are we preparing for, are we buying the right equipment, is Defence agile enough to be making the right decisions, and is it communicating its strategies with the public. Dr Gregor Ferguson asks the hard questions. So let’s start with the headline figure:…
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