The federal government has committed $51 million to support collaboration between industry and researchers under Round 15 of the Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P). The 21 grants support industry-led projects with promising commercial potential that solve a wide range of community and economic challenges, from diagnosing life-threatening infections more quickly to innovative environmental recycling processes.…
The National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) has announced its initial speaker lineup for its Accreditation Matters 2024 event in June, headlined by a keynote from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and featuring presentations from the National Measurement Institute (NMI), Standards Australia (SA), CSIRO, and others. In a statement on Wednesday, NATA said the event…
The next stop on our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers quest is at another exciting young recycling enterprise with a world-first method addressing an enduring issue. Brent Balinski speaks to BlockTexx co-founder Graham Ross. Sometimes a lack of local ambition – as well as lack of larger-sized companies – gets cited as an obstacle to…
CSIRO and Swinburne University of Technology have established a new partnership to tackle global decarbonisation through research into green steel and mineral processing research and development. The collaboration will build research capability to help industry investigate low-emission steel technologies to guide future demonstrations and industry development, according to CSIRO. The ‘Sustainable Mineral Processing and Green…
Emeritus Professor Roy Green was named as AM in the Australia Day honours ‘for significant service to business, and to tertiary education in the fields of science, technology and innovation’. Here Roy talks with @AuManufacturing news. @AuManufacturing: Congratulations Roy on a much deserved honour. May I ask you for your response to being honoured by…
The first CEO of bionic ear manufacturer Cochlear as a listed company Catherine Livingstone, and innovation and business academic Emeritus Professor Roy Green featured in this year’s Australia Day honours. Livingstone was awarded the highest honour, a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the General Division for eminent service to business, particularly through…
CSIRO has invited start-ups and SMEs working in digital health and medical technologies to apply for its upcoming Innovate to Grow program, which is held online, runs for ten weeks, and is free to successful applicants.. According to a statement from the organisation on Monday, the program is designed to assist companies operating in critical…
Green hydrogen technology developer Sparc Hydrogen has released a video (below) detailing their work with CSIRO demonstrating the company’s novel process of concentrated solar photocatalytic water splitting (PWS) as an alternative method for producing green hydrogen at industrial scale. Lead researcher at the company Professor Greg Metha said: “Photocatalysis uses the Sun’s energy incident on…
Two bids for new manufacturing related Cooperative Research Centres have agreed to merge their bid to increase opportunities for company involvement and the chance of securing CRC backing for their proposals. The SMCRC (Surface Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre) and AMCRC (Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre) have decided to merge into a single, unified bid. This…
Sydney startup Metakosmos and UTS, Sydney will collaborate to optimise design for a future Australian astronaut spacesuit. UTS has been awarded a grant under the New South Wales (NSW) Space Research Network’s (SRN) Seed Project Program to collaborate with Metakosmos on the Digital Optimisation of Spacesuit form & fit. The SRN Seed Program supports early-stage…
