Perth shipbuilder Austal has laid the keel of the first of six Cape Class patrol boats the company is building for the navy at its Henderson shipyard south of Perth. Keel laying is a major milestone in the construction of the ship, known hull 811, which is scheduled for delivery to the RAN in September…
ASX-listed brain scanner technology company EMVision Medical Devices has announced the successful close of a $9 million capital raising.
SciDev wins US fracking customer Solids-liquid separation chemicals and technology company SciDev has won a new customer for its its chemicals for the Texas oil and gas sector. The company’s US subsidiary Highland Fluid technology has partnered with technology business Floktek Industries to service an order from the customer which operates 1,600 wells in the…
Roxset Australia is the latest business to join the @AuManufacturing Business Directory.
The national audit office is set to shine a spotlight on the government’s administration of the now controversial research and development tax incentive scheme.
Packing machinery hire specialist Packserv Group is to launch into local manufacturing with machines to be made at a new plant at Marrickville in New South Wales The company has changed its name to Packserv Manufacturing to reflect its new engineering and manufacturing focus, and has announced 26 locally designed and engineered machines. The filling,…
There is a lack of market pull for recycled carbon fibre, which is an emerging landfill concern. Brent Balinski spoke to Filip Stojcevski, a co-founder at JUC Surf, which has found a promising application for discarded material.
Recycling and packaging giant Visy has spent $947 million to buy the Australian and New Zealand glass bottle manufacturing business of global packager, Owens-Illinois Glass. In a major show of confidence in Australian manufacturing, Visy’s owner ad executive chairman Richard Pratt has made one of the country’s largest-ever manufacturing acquisitions – all in the midst…
Rare earths producer Lynas Corp has ordered long lead time equipment for a new processing plant it is building at Kalgoorlie, a move forced on the company by troubles at its existing Malaysian processing plant. The Perth company operates a mine and concentration plant at Mt Weld in Western Australia for Neodymium, Praseodymium, Lanthanum, Cerium…
Up to a third of all companies accessing the R&D tax incentive may have some of their claim clawed back, with the government still planning to introduce retrospective changes to the scheme.
