Melbourne start-up Great Wrap has launched a plant based, compostable and stretchy biodegradable replacement for conventional plastic wrap. The company’s Great Wrap product is made from plant-sourced PLA and PBAT and is suitable for kitchens or for wrapping pallets of goods in factories and logistics centres. The product is certified compostable, degrading in a compost…
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Only a few months after listing carbon fibre composite automotive wheel manufacturer Carbon Revolution has completed a rushed $25 million capital raising. The company completed a non-underwritten institutional share placement ‘to position the company as strongly as possible to deal with the impacts on the business…
A crack Australian team is tackling the threat of space junk wrecking new satellites using machine learning
The coronavirus has claimed another victim with Reed Exhibitions postponing the Advanced Manufacturing Expo (Sydney), which was planned to be held from 13-15 May The Expo, the renamed National Manufacturing Week (Sydney), will be held in the second half of the year according to an announcement. National Manufacturing Week (Melbourne) 2021 is unaffected. @AuManufacturing News…
The Building 4.0 Cooperative Research Centre has been awarded $28 million in federal funding, and will apply technologies from the world of manufacturing to help modernise the building sector.
In these uncertain times I feel our local manufacturers need some practical advice on how to manage the situation. We have an opportunity to demonstrate our manufacturing agility and show how we can stand tall and stand together in the face of uncertainty.
The Auto Express 109, the first of a new class of fast ferry built by Austal in Perth, has been honoured by the Royal Institute of Naval Architects (RINA). Designated by the company as Hull 393, the game-changing vessel has been included in RINA’s listing of Significant Ships of 2019. Built for MOLSLINJEN A/S of…
Pharmaceutical developer Noxopharm has been awarded patent protection for its Veyonda treatment for late-stage cancers. The patent, one of a number of families of patents the company is seeking in major drug markets, is for a suppository formulation including the drug idronoxil. Idronoxil is an inhibitor of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) – a messenger in cells that…
The Hazer Group has executed an agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency that will see it develop a $16.5 million commercial demonstration plant to produce low emission hydrogen from methane biogas. The agreement with the Perth company will see ARENA provide $9.41 million in funding to the project to construct the Hazer Process Commercial…
A dozen Australian Defence Force engineers are assisting manufacturer Med-Con keep up with increased demand due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
