Linda Dobe appointed D-D of Queensland Manufacturing department The Queensland government has announced the appointment of three new Directors-General, each with a wealth of experience, to lead key departments. The appointments include: Linda Dobe as Director-General for the Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water (DRDMW), Peter McKay as Director-General of the Department of Employment,…
ASX-listed reproductive biotechnology company Memphasys has announced results showing “clear benefits” of its Felix technology versus two widely used technologies in a Japanese trial, with results from a larger-scale trial expected to be shared in late-2024. According to an ASX statement from the company on Monday, the Felix System (pictured) outperformed a sperm preparation method…
Today our fourth Celebrating Australian Made editorial series begins, coinciding with Australian Made Week 2024 (Monday May 20 to Sunday May 26.) It’s that time of year again, when Australians show a bit of love for goods made here, those who make them, and the value of supporting them. Australian Made Week was first marked…
By Nicholas Way For nearly two decades, the Bawa family-owned business, Sunrise International, has been supplying the market with an extensive and specialist range of trailer parts and accessories. Starting in Melbourne in 2005, it now has two manufacturing plants there – Sunshine in the west and Chelsea Heights in the south – employing about…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Incitec Pivot’s fertiliser business heads for foreign control Yet another Australian manufacturing operation is heading for foreign control with fertiliser and explosives business Incitec Pivot confirming it was negotiating the sale of its fertiliser manufacturing to an Indonesian…
By Peter Roberts If @AuManufacturing’s editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – has taught us anything, it is not the national myth of plucky Australians being an inventive people battling to commercialise their ideas. Towards 3% has taught us that unlike leading nations, Australia doesn’t have a supportive innovation ecosystem…
An independent report by consulting and engineering firm Egis and commissioned by the Clean Energy Council has confirmed that nuclear is the most expensive form of new energy in Australia. The review analysed the CSIRO and Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)’s GenCost report against the Lazard Review and the Mineral Council of Australia (MCA)’s research…
A world-first mobile lightweight CT brain scanner (pictured) is set to be tested in two major hospitals as two companies zero in on the promise of stroke diagnosis at the point of treatment – including in an attending ambulance. Cold cathode X-ray manufacturer Micro-X will begin clinical trials this year at Royal Melbourne Hospital and…
