Artificial bone 3D printing company Osteopore has received Therapeutic Goods Administration approval for sale of its craniofacial reconstruction products. The TGA has added the Osteomesh, Osteoplug and Ostroplug-C range of 3D printed bioresorbale scaffolds that aid bone growth and healing to the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods and they will also be included in the…
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By James Riley Of the seven delivery provider contracts worth $140 million awarded by the Department of Industry for its Entrepreneurs Programme, five contracts – worth about $109 million – were with existing suppliers to the five-year-old flagship industry development program. While the Industry department went to market last year to refresh the delivery apparatus…
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The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre has released a map and state-by-state breakdown of submissions to its Manufacturer Response Register, launched last month to coordinate a response by the industry to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Yes, Australian manufacturing is having its moment here. You can’t miss it. We’ve lost track of the stories this month on heroic coronavirus-inspired pivots, of the industry’s overall importance, and of the need for it to play a big role in the post-Covid-19 rebuild. “Coronavirus shortages prompt Australia to bring manufacturing home” read…
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Queensland’s $20 billion manufacturing sector has achieved recognition by the World Economic Forum as an Advanced Manufacturing Hub. In a statement over the weekend, manufacturing minister Cameron Dick said this recognised the ingenuity and potential of Queensland’s sixth biggest sector, which was currently standing tall to address to Covid-19 pandemic. “We’re seeing distillers making sanitiser, plastics…
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Australia and other nations are rethinking their supply chains. Brent Balinski spoke to ANCA co-founder Pat Boland about what re-localisation means to a company that exports nearly all of what it makes. There’s a momentum here and abroad behind strengthening manufacturing as part of the pandemic response. It’s hard to witness the urgent ramping…
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The Australian Manufacturing Forum and @AuManufacturing’s campaign to crowd source a new deal manufacturing policy for Australia is now in its second week. Today Tim McLean details how we got to where we are today, and the approaches that work for industry. Send your ideas or make a submission to [email protected]. The need for Australia…
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When I grew up in Adelaide there was a feeling that South Australia was the centre of manufacturing. The home of Holden and Chrysler, of the Hills Hoist and Lightburn washing machine, Scott Bonnar mowers, Perry Engineering, Horwood Bagshaw agricultural equipment and Actil sheets. For a while it seemed the centre of the manufacturing universe…
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A new generation fire truck (main picture) has rolled out of the production line at North Sunshine, Melbourne-based R. A. Bell for use by the Victorian Country Fire Authority. Eighteen new trucks incorporating the lessons from the recent summer of extreme bushfires are in production with another 25 to be manufactured next year. Bell Fire…
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Medical device and digital healthcare group Adherium has teamed up with US telemedicine provider HGE Health to offer its digital solutions to treat respiratory patients. Pennsylvania-based HGE will evaluate and integrate Adherium’s Hailie technology to remotely monitor patient usage of inhaled respiratory drugs used to treat conditions such as asthma and potentially covid-19. The company’s…
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