Government opens consultation period for six manufacturing priority areas On Friday the Commonwealth government announced it was seeking input to develop ten-year road maps for each of the six manufacturing sectors identified in its recent policy launch — resource technology and critical minerals processing, food and beverage, medical products, recycling and clean energy, defence, and…
The University of Sydney has announced Phase 1 human trials of Australia’s first DNA-based Covid-19 vaccine.
Port Melbourne-based 3DMeditech has earned a $3.7 million contract for nasopharyngeal swab kits, which will be delivered to the National Medical Stockpile up to March next year and be used to test for Covid-19.
A preclinical study on the University of Queensland Covid-19 vaccine candidate has produced ” positive indications about its potential effectiveness and manufacturability” according to the university.
The federal government has secured the right to early local manufacture of one of the most promising Covid–19 vaccine candidates being developed in the UK by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. According to media reports the agreement allows for the production of 25 million doses of the vaccine in Australia, possibly as early as late this…
By Peter Roberts Manufacturing is undergoing massive transformation in a fourth industrial revolution, sometimes called Industry 4.0. The combination of robotics and automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics offers a platform to rebuild Australia’s manufacturing sector. It needs to, as the days when Australia could prosper as a resource commodity exporter with local…
Australia and the United States have moved to strengthened their history of collaboration through a senior-level dialogue on science and frontier technologies led by Industry Minister Karen Andrews.
The federal government has put a call out to local manufacturers as part of our preparations to produce a future vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 in Australia. Submissions received will be used to determine the extent to which the production and distribution can be supported locally once an effective candidate is found. While CSL is…
S&P Dow Jones is rebalancing its S&P/ASX stock indices which are based on market value on June 22, with manufacturers featuring in the changes. Amcor PLC will drop out of the S&P/ASX top 20 index following the demerger of its domestic and international businesses into locally-focused Orora and the global Amcor group. Gaming machine manufacturer…
Zip Industries is preparing to begin manufacture of Covid-19 point-of-care tests at a site in Collingwood. Brent Balinski spoke to company founder William Hopper about creating domestic capacity for diagnostic tech for this and emerging infectious diseases.
