It’s being reported that Sanjay Gupta has begun a review of GFG Alliance’s Whyalla steel plant, which has suffered losses exacerbated by the Covid-19 downturn, in an attempt to make it run as leanly as possible ahead of a planned new plant opening in 2024.
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Interest from local suppliers in Phase 3 of LAND 400 appears strong, with the federal government announcing “a record” 400-plus participants, despite a pandemic, in the Australian Industry Capability Roadshow running from March to May.
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The Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears to be wrestling with a way to boost manufacturing despite the Coalition’s traditional antipathy to manufacturing subsidies. A report in Channel 9 media quoted Coalition members at their regular party meeting who called for options to replace manufacturing imprts. Journalist David Crowe, who is very close to the government…
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The US Defence Department is to lodge an investigational new drug (IND) application with the Food and Drug Administration to press on with studies of Immuron’s novel treatment of gut pathogens. The DoD Naval Medical Research Centre (NMRC) has requested a meeting with the FDA for guidance on Phase 2 trials of the Melbourne drug…
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Comment by Peter Roberts Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has extended companies abilities to instantly write off newly purchased assets worth up to $150,000 in an attempt to boost cash flows as the economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic. The instant write off applies to businesses turning over up to $500 million a year and will remain…
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Have you seriously considered the implications of the apparent recognition that remote working can, and will, be a greater part of the employment mix in a post corona world? There is a loud noise that ‘everything will change’ reverberating, an echo chamber of that view amplified by digital tools. It seems to me that human…
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Following our successful new deal plan series, @AuManufacturing is crowd sourcing advice from its community on how to reshape the industry through new tools and technologies. The first article in this new series is from Rowan Lamont, who suggests ways to better create products that customers attribute value to.
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Based in Adelaide, South Australia, health technology company LBT Innovations told investors this morning it had completed the sale to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis
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By Grahame Lynch The National Broadband Network has sailed past its FY2020 volume build completion target of 11.5 million premises one month early. However, communications minister Paul Fletcher has been careful not to claim NBN Co is completely finished, noting that it is now “99 per cent built” and that there are still a small…
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Zip Industries is preparing to begin manufacture of Covid-19 point-of-care tests at a site in Collingwood. Brent Balinski spoke to company founder William Hopper about creating domestic capacity for diagnostic tech for this and emerging infectious diseases.
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