The Queensland government is promoting some of the leading companies in the state’s burgeoning manufacturing sector through this week’s “Inside Advanced Manufacturing” series of events.
Listed pharmaceutical company IDT Australia (ASX:IDT) has gained a Medical Cannabis Manufacturing Licence from the Office of Drug Control.
A new $10 million boiler powered by sawdust produced from milling is powering Dongwha Australia’s kilns at Bombala.
Chemicals and explosives business Incitec Pivot (ASX: IPL) is on the way to recovery after a horror first half of the year when it was hit with unplanned outages and floods. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for the first half were $119 million after $141 million of non-recurring events. These included the $60 million…
Materials technology business Lithium Australia (ASX: LIT) has successfully generated a high purity lithium phosphate from waste materials using its SiLeach process. Previously Lithium Australia has successfully produced LFP batteries from unrefined, SiLeach generated lithium phosphate. Now in association with ANSTO, the company has announced a simple means of removing impurities resulting in a product…
A 13-year-old Adelaide boy has won an international inventors award in Malaysia after designing a Wi-Fi enabled electronic monitoring system for compost bins.
Jennifer Conley has been announced as the new CEO of the Advanced Fibre Cluster Geelong.
National Manufacturing Week 2019 wrapped up late on Friday afternoon, with over 11,000 manufacturing professionals attending the 20th edition of the biennial Melbourne event.
Analysis by Peter Roberts The automotive sector never died in Australia – despite the demise of the big three car assemblers we still manufacture trucks, buses and make specialist mining and defence vehicles. And where there are skills, and a market, there is a way it seems with the opportunity presented by the world’s switch…
Lighting and switching manufacturer Legrand has released Arteor with Netatmo, a range of smart switches and sockets allowing control of the home utilising an IOS or android smart device or voice commands. The switches, which work with digital assistants such as Google Home, Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa, use normal household power and wall mounting…
