The Australian Trade and Investment Commission is focusing on Agriculture 4.0 as it markets local capabilities and products in this fast-developing area. The Agriculture 4.0 theme will help the global agricultural sector to be more profitable, efficient, safe and environmentally friendly, according to Austrade. “These technologies include biotechnology, smart farming, ‘precision for decision’ agriculture, robotics,…
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By Helen Hull of First5000 Federal parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade has released its report ‘From little things big things grow: Supporting Australian SMEs go global‘ following an inquiry into access to free trade agreements by small and medium enterprises. Among the key recommendations tabled in Parliament is that Free…
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Synthetic gas developer Leigh Creek Energy (ASX: LCK) has announced it is in discussions with a number of manufacturers to commercialise its project located at the former Leigh Creek coal field in South Australia. The company said in a statement it has successfully completed pre-commercialisation testing at Leigh Creek, producing more than seven million cubic…
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Hearing implant manufacturer, Cochlear Ltd (ASX: COH) has followed other strong results from lised companies reporting strong sales and profit growth in the first half of the year ending December. The Sydney company today reported sales up six per cent and earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) up 11 per cent in constant currency terms.…
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Naval Group Australia has begun planning to procure equipment for its Adelaide operation which will construct 12 Attack class submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.. The company has issued a call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) from Australian firms. Naval Group is working with the Industry Capability Network (ICN) to find those with the capability…
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Royal Dutch Shell’s purchase of German home battery maker, sonnen has cleared the way for it to enter the Australian market with a home-grown product. Sonnen has already begun manufacturing home systems at a plant in the former Holden assembly plant at Elizabeth north of Adelaide. It had plans to make 50,000 systems over five…
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The emphasis in recent times on “disruption” was unwarranted, the co-founder of Square told a Q and A session last week, and it was more productive for companies to focus on inclusion.
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A pilot biofuels plant to make jet fuel and diesel from farm waste such as sugar cane is being built in the northern Queensland port of Gladstone. Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk said in a statement that US company Mercurius was completing designs for the biorefinery and would begin construction ‘within months’. Palaszczuk said: “New industries…
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Comment by Peter Roberts Slowly, slowly lawmakers are getting round to tightening up laws covering the sort of white collar crime evident in the recent Banking Royal Commission. But as the Commission itself failed to come to grips with the real problem with the financial services industry, so too will our politicians. While I welcome…
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Additive manufacturing technology company, Aurora Labs Limited (ASX: A3D), has demonstrated high speed 3D printing in a series of tests. The Perth company reported that it had completed a test series on 13 February of its Rapid Manufacturing Technology (RMT) prototype demonstrating the scalable nature of the technology. The company said it had achieved “…remarkable…
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