Western Australia’s ‘battery valley’ centre for processing and manufacture of battery materials is taking shape with approval for a third facility in the Kwinana industrial area south of Perth. High purity alumina (HPA) producer FYI Resources (ASX: FYI) has been offered and accepted a site within the Kwinana area to set up an HPA refinery.…
Nerve technology developer Orthocell (ASX:OCC) has received firm commitments from institutional investors to raise $13 million in a share placement. The company, which is commercialising its CellGro nerve regeneration product, received commitments for well in excess of the figure sought from existing and new investors. The company will also proceed with a share purchase plan…
Blood products and pharmaceutical group CSL (ASX: CSL) is continuing its focus on innovation, spending more that $1.21 billion (US$832 million) on research in 2019.
Cold Logic has entered into an agreement with Ernest West & Beynon to fulfil Australian Navy refrigeration needs.
Winners at the 57th Australian Export Awards were named at a ceremony at Parliament House, Canberra.
THC Global Group (ASX:THC) has completed the first farm-to-pharma processing of medicinal cannabis in Australia at its Southport manufacturing facility (pictured) in Queensland. The Southport Facility is the largest pharmaceutical bio-floral extraction facility in the Southern Hemisphere and is licenced and permitted to process medicinal cannabis. THC Global CEO Ken Charteris said: “Completing this Australian…
The Australian Space Agency signed a collaboration agreement with French communications and defence company Thales this week, one of numerous such agreements with nations, states and international and local space industry leaders signed by the young agency. Agency boss Dr Megan Clarke (pictured) has been acive signing alliances and said its new agreement with space…
Listed Australian technology company Calix (ASX:CXL) has announced it has joined the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBI-CRC) as a key participant.
Widespread adoption of breakthrough low-emission steelmaking was a “considerable way off,” the CEO of Bluescope has said. According to The Australian Financial Review, Mark Vasella said the steelmaking industry was striving to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and there were alternatives to using fossil fuel-based energy, but the traditional use of carbon required to…
Holden Boss Dave Buttner has departed only 16 months into his tenure in the top job as consumers continue to desert the once top selling local manufacturer. Buttner, a former top executive of Toyota Australia, came out of retirement to create a new image for Holden post-manufacture, but will now be replaced by the sales…
