Qinetiq awarded $100 million contract with defence
Defence has signed a ten-year, $100 million contract with engineering company Qinetiq Australia.
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Ellex sells laser business, becomes Nova Eye Medical
Ellex Medical Lasers will be reborn with the new name of Nova Eye Medical and will develop new opthalmic treatments following the completion of the sale of its opthalmic laser (pictured) and ultrasound businesses. The company told investors it had completed the sale of the businesses, together with the Ellex name, to London’s Lumibird Group…
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SAGE Automotion introduces new data device
Industrial automation group SAGE Automation has introduced the SAGE Edge, an IoT capture device and gateway providing insight for managing travel time and pedestrian data. SAGE Edge can be used in many applications including smartcity data collection, transport travel time data, tourism pedestrian data and general IoT data management. Already being utilised by local government,…
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LBT’s APAS AI machine achieves perfect result
LBT Innovations Ltd’s APAS Independence machine has been tested on laboratory specimens from 4,603 patients at America’s prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital and passed with a perfect, or perhaps better than perfect, result. The APAS Independence technology uses an algorithm to detect bacterial colonies on laborature culture slides and incorporates computer vision to hasten the time…
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Technologies and tools for a manufacturing transformation: We need more robots in factories by Mark Peters
There are Australian manufacturing companies reaping the benefits of robotics investments, and we need more of them. In this installment of our “technologies and tools…” series, Mark Peters presents three local examples, and argues against the zero-sum view of automation versus jobs.
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Assistance announced for oil recyclers hit by Covid-19 downturn
The federal government has pledged $7.8 million in temporary funding assistance following a downturn for the country’s 11 used oil re-refiners due to Covid-19.
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Food manufacturers fear margin squeeze from Woolies’ B2B relaunch
The Australian Food and Grocery Council has raised concerns that Woolworths’ focus on its business-to-business division could squeeze suppliers and hurt their ability to invest in new equipment and stay onshore.
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R&D tax changes to be applied retrospectively
By Denham Sadler The controversial proposed changes to the R&D tax incentive will be applied retrospectively for the 2019-20 financial year if the legislation is eventually passed by Parliament later this year, a senate inquiry has heard. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee held a public hearing for its inquiry into the government’s planned reforms to…
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Ridley commissions new Bendigo feedmill
Animal feeds producer Ridley Corporation has commissioned its new poultry and pig feedmill at Wellsford near Bendigo in Victoria. All production has been successfully transferred from the former Bendigo mill to Wellsford, with the old site now closed and being readied for sale. The new feedmill has a capacity of 350,000 tonnes a year, with…
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Silex progresses zero-spin silicon manufacture
Technology developer Silex Systems has successfully completed the first stage of a three-year project to develop production systems to make zero-spin silicon (ZS-Si) for use in silicon quantum computing chips. Silex has demonstrated the production of 99.95 per cent isotopic purity material at the laboratory scale using the company’s Silex laser isotope separation technology. The…
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