Sydney’s Suba Engineering has taken another step in its journey from importer to fully fledged product developer and manufacturer with the delivery of its first SubaLaser industrial marker. Suba’s owner Heinz Zimmerman showed off the locally developed marker at his Melbourne office this week (pictured). Zimmerman said: “We showed our SubaLaser marker prototype just over…
Hardware sales are powering off grid security and IoT solutions provider Spectur (ASX: SP3) to expand revenue and margins in the Australian market. The Perth company reported revenue in the first quarter of FY2020 of $1.26 million with gross margins improving to 60 per cent of sales. Hardware sales have seen a 30 per cent…
Australia’s rejuvenated space industry is showcasing its capabilities to the world this week at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), in Washington DC.
Four Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority grants totalling $2.3 million, and all going to South Australian firms, were announced on Tuesday. The SICP is a program offering between $50,000 and $1 million in dollar-matched funding to SMEs in defence. The successful firms in this round would use their funding to help investment in specialised tools…
Holden sales have slipped inexorably since it exited manufacturing in Australia begging the question – what genius decided it should stop making the all-Australian car? The company, which once sold 100,000 big sedans a year and even a few years ago controlled 10 plus per cent of the market, sold a miserable 2,863 cars in…
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a tool for identifying and addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in networked 3D printers. In work funded by the Pittsburgh university’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative, Vyas Sekar and Matthew McCormack have created a system to identify a printer’s security vulnerabilities and identify potential routes of attack. “For example, it can…
Right now, two projects have been proposed to import gas from overseas to supply eastern Australia. This is an absurd prospect. Australia is a resource-rich country, and exports more gas than any other nation. Why then, would we need to ship it in?
Sydney anti-cancer treatment company Noxopharm (ASX: NOX) has reported anti-cancer effects of its Veyonda treatment in a small group of patients suffering advanced prostate cancer. The 14 patients’ cancers were metastatic and they had exhausted all treatment options when given Veyonda in association with low-dosage radiation in a single lesion. After six months, cancer progression…
Rare earths producer Lynas Corp is confident of a future operating in Malaysia following the extension of its licence to operate by six months. The company said in an operational update that the extension, announced in August, provided an operational pathway for continued operation. However the company has yet to receive further approvals following concerns…
Medical technology and equipment developer LBT Innovations (ASX: LBT) has made its first European sale of its APAS Independence laboratory instrument (pictured). The sale was made to one of the largest clinical laboratories in the EU, Labor Dr Wisplinghoff, which employes more than 40 medical specialists. Laboratory director Professor Hilmar Wilplinghoff joined LBT Innovations CEO…
