In this, the first in @AuManufacturing’s new series on Australia’s niche champions, Peter Roberts talks to Pat Boland, co-founder of the global tier 1 supplier of CNC tool and cutter grinders – ANCA. Pat Boland (below) and Pat McCluskey were working at a factory at Footscray in Western Melbourne with some of the earliest numerical…
Inflammatory drug developer Mesoblast has received good news which clears the way for its remestemcel-L (Ryoncil) drug to go to market. A panel of the US Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) of the FDA voted in favour of the view that the “available data support the efficacy” of Ryoncil in cases of transplant rejection. The…
Far from cutting his exposure to the Australian steel industry, British businessman Sanjeev Gupta has reinforced its viability, buying the Bell Bay manganese smelter from South 32. According to a statement from miner South32, the company will divest its ownership of the Tasmanian Electro metallurgical Company (TEMCO) in Tasmania’s north to an entity within Gupta’s…
By Robert Giles, CEO SPC Ardmona SPC has been a key employer for many decades in the Shepparton area and across Victoria. We are proud of our rich heritage providing natural and convenient products for Australian families. This week, the business and our employees, after working closely with the AMWU for several months, overwhelmingly voted…
Classic Minerals has bought a Gekko Systems gravity processing module for use at flagship Kat Gold Project near Southern Cross in Western Australia’s goldfields region. An attraction for Classic is that the Ballarat-made Gekko plant is modular and mounted on containerised elements providing for scalability and ease of modification. The plant has a 30 tonne…
The federal government has put a call out to local manufacturers as part of our preparations to produce a future vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 in Australia. Submissions received will be used to determine the extent to which the production and distribution can be supported locally once an effective candidate is found. While CSL is…
South Australian shipbuilder shipbuilder MG Engineering has been chosen to build four “mini blocks” to be used to test leading edge manufacturing techniques for the $35 billion future frigates programme. SA innovation and skills minister David Pisoni confirmed the order from BAE Systems subbsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding this morning. Pisoni said on social media ASC Shipbuilding…
Defence technology group XTEK is raising $11.4 million from investors and also moving to join the C4 EDGE consortium of 17 SMEs that are developing a sovereign C4 (commend, control, communications and computing) environment for the Australian army. The company announced it had successfully raised $9.2 million from an oversubscribed placement with institutional investors, and…
A Hawk aircraft, the advanced jet trainer used to prepare Royal Australian Air Force pilots for life in a fast jet cockpit, has completed the equivalent of 50,000 ‘flying’ hours as part of a major structural testing programme. BAE Systems worked with the government’s DST Group at its Fishermans Bend facility in Melbourne over the…
The final report of the National COVID-19 Commission’s manufacturing taskforce is expected to recommend policy changes including around energy, procurement, and commercialising public R&D work. Brent Balinski spoke to the taskforce’s head, Andrew Liveris, about ways to maximise manufacturing’s contribution in the economic recovery and beyond.
