Nanosatellite business Myriota has announced a $28 million Series B funding round, with Hostplus and Main Sequence Ventures as lead investors and all Series A backers participating in the raise.
I strongly believe manufacturing is an essential service. We now have over 1500 companies that have signed up to the Covid19 National Manufacturing Response. That’s over 1500 Australian manufacturing companies putting their hand up to say “We’re ready, willing and able”.
Australia’s biotechnology industries are set to benefit in the long term with a federal government decision to reverse years of declining support for CSIRO. The government announced on Saturday that it would spend $220 million upgrading the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong (pictured) with the increasing threat of human pandemic disease and the…
The federal government has announced the construction of new naval maintenance infrastructure south of Perth to support the Arafura class patrol boats (pictured) now under construction. Lendlease Building Contractors has been awarded a $365 million managing contract for the first tranche of works at HMAS Stirling and the Australian Maritime Complex. Lendlease has committed to…
Metals technology group Neometals appears poised to enter the European battery recycling market following the successful conclusion of its pilot plant technology proving phase. The company announced the completion of trials at its Canadian pilot plant on Thursday, and plans to move ahead with a European demonstration plant in partnership with Germany’s SMS Group. It…
With airlines cutting international flights to the bare bones on federal government orders, air freight costs have skyrocketed. Now these twin events have combined to slow the import and export of essential manufactures to a trickle. Manufacturers exporting to the United States are restricted to one flight a day from Melbourne to the United States,…
By Peter Roberts The federal government has turned to former Dow chemical CEO Andrew Liveris to help map a new future for Australian manufacturing in the post-coronavirus world. Liveris, an Australian, has been called up by Canberra’s National COVID-19 Coordination Commission to devise a long-term strategy to deliver a competitive manufacturing sector to help in…
By Peter Roberts In an exciting development Australia’s CSIRO has begun testing potential vaccines against the Covid-19 coronavirus at its Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) facility in Geelong. Testing in the biosecure facility originally built to contain the world’s most harmful plant and animal diseases is part of a global effort led by the interational Coalition…
@AuManufacturing news is pleased to announce the launch of our 2020 media kit – the first major revision to our offering to advertisers since our launch in November, 2018. The kit features prices for website and newsletter advertising, introduces the new Technology section of our website, and launches our second weekly newsletter. The new features…
The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre has received a massive response from Australian manufacturers keen to step up production of medical supplies vital to checking the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The national register set up by AMGC to collate local expertise and production capacity has received an incredible 1,000 responses from companies willing to help.…
