The Arnott’s Group has signalled a plan to expand its Australian food business with the purchase of Melbourne snack and breakfast cereal manufacturer Diver Foods. Diver, the manufacturer of Carman’s muesli and muesli bars, will form the basis of a new a new business division at Arnott’s to be known as Good Food Partners. While…
By Denham Sadler At least 30 per cent of the NSW government’s tech procurement spend will go to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as part of a new policy aimed at ensuring its digital infrastructure program will also benefit local industry. Customer services minister Victor Dominello announced the new IT procurement target on Monday morning…
Multi-brand winemaker Treasury Wine Estates has been forced to deny persistent rumours it is still planning to demerge its luxury Penfolds brand from its value and mid-market wine brands. The company announced in April it was considering building shareholder value through a demerger, however in November it told the company’s annual general meeting that it…
Drone detection and counter-drone technology developer DroneShield has rolled out its first fully machine learning/artificial intelligence based drone detection and classification software. The new AI based signal processing technologies will be rolled out for all new and existing customer systems to better detect unmanned robotic systems and threats in the electronic warfare fields. The software…
Industrial automation firm Products for Industry has won a multi-million contract to install product handling systems at Thomas Foods International’s greenfields meat processing site being constructed at Murray Bridge in South Australia. The contract for robotic palletising and container load out systems for the $300 million meat plant will form an important part of the…
Medicinal cannabis producer Cann Group has been hit by a cyber scam that ended up costing the company $3.6 million. The Victorian company discovered the cyber security incident on February 4 but has been unable to determine the party responsible. Cann Group told investors it had recently made payments of $3.6 million to an overseas…
Nepean Engineering & Innovation is nearly a half-century old, and runs one of the country’s biggest fabrication shops. Brent Balinski spoke with the company’s R&D manager Mark Helou about how it plans to reinvent itself.
The Victorian Government has backed Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO to build a Victorian Hydrogen Hub to bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test, trial and demonstrate new hydrogen technologies Backed by a $10 million injection from the state, the hub will support sustainable manufacturing practices, as well as the ability to…
By Peter Roberts An autonomous electric vehicle platform developed in the Bayswater North industrial area of Melbourne has surfaced with the release of new pictures and video. After a $7.7 million, four-year development project, robotics company Applied EV has revealed its first ‘mobility solution’ – the Blanc Robot (pictured above, and below). The Blanc Robot…
The federal government is to invest in development of ultra-high-precision sapphire clock technology to boost the performance of Australia’s over the horizon radar detection network. The government has awarded a $4.8 million contract to BAE Systems Australia and CryoClock Pty Ltd to develop a more precise timing system for the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN)…
