The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has called for immediate assistance to manufacturers as more than 61,000 manufacturing jobs were lost over the June quarter. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour accounts the number of full time jobs in manufacturing shrank from 941,000 in March to 880,000 in June. Underutilisation of workers –…
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A long-time member of the Australian Manufacturing Forum is stranded in Europe and desperate to return to manage their business in Australia – but government travel restrictions on returning to Australia have not been exactly helpful, as the latest airline ticket cancellation (pictured) suggests. This is the story so far, by an AMF member. I…
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Bio-separation company Memphasys has received a $1.29 million tax rebate under the R&D tax incentive scheme. The payment is a refundable tax offset of eligible expenses on research and development. The company is developing the Felix device, an instrument used in in vitro fertilisation that separates high quality sperm from a semen sample, improving the…
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The federal government has awarded more than $11 million in grants to 20 Australian small businesses in the latest round of the Sovereign Industrial Capability Grants Program.
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A plan to build hydrogen production facilities along the east coast of Australia has begun with the agreement this week to construct the Bundaberg Hydrogen Hub in Queensland. The facility, which will cost approximately $300 million, will provide green hydrogen for a wide range of industrial and vehicle uses. The agreement signed this week between…
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Green Distillation Technologies, best known for its process that turns end-of-life tyres into carbon, oil and steel, has announced the development of a new technique to further process reclaimed materials into hydrogen.
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A deal between NASA and the Adelaide-based SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre could lead to emergency beacon technology developed in South Australia for the next moon missions.
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Gilmour Space has announced its first Australian customer, Space Machines Company, for a maiden launch scheduled for 2022.
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AML3D Ltd, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre and Dematec Automation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to co-develop industrial internet of things (IIOT) solutions for AML3D’s Adelaide additive manufacturing modules and Arcemy 3D printers. The project aims to support AML3D’s distributed manufacturing business model strategy focused on the deployment of Arcemy units close to…
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Perth materials technology group FYI Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with alumina producer Alcoa of Australia for ‘the potential strategic development’ of FYI’s high purity alumina (HPA) project. FYI has completed a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its Western Australian HPA project involving a kaolin mine at Cadoux, WA and a processing…
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