Tag: manufacturing

Govt orders $31m in Aust built respirators

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has reached a $31 million agreement with a consortium of manufacturers and engineering firms led by Victorian design engineers Grey Innovation to produce 2,000 ventilators by...

ICU ventilators: why it’s hard to make more

Posted on   |  by Berto Pandolfo
Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture much-needed ventilators to address a global lack of supply. One New York hospital has reportedly attempted treating two patients per ventilator...

Govt to step in on patent problems

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Crown use of patents will be invoked by the federal government where it is necessary to allow local manufacturers to rapidly ramp up the production of essential medical equipment,...

From makerspace to manufacturing

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
A rapid-prototyping co-working facility in Melbourne has developed face shields for frontline medical workers amid emerging shortages in the health system, pivoting to full-blown manufacturing operation. FAB9 founder and...

Tech focus for Greens leader Bandt

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Adam Bandt is the new leader of the Greens, with the party to campaign on a Green New Deal and to transform Australia into a renewable energy “superpower”. Mr...

Govt’s $50m lift for manufacturers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Coalition will hand Australia’s manufacturing sector a $50 million boost as part of the newly created Manufacturing Modernisation Fund. Under the fund, which would be matched by $110...

Austeng: Goodbye to the car-makers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When Holden, Ford, Toyota, and Mitsubishi began shuttering their plants permanently in this country, it was an “absolute guillotine” for suppliers such as Geelong-based engineering firm Australian Engineering Solutions...

Gupta eyes an electric Lazarus

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Just when you thought vehicle manufacturing in Australia had gone the way of the dodo, billionaire UK investor Sanjeev Gupta has popped up with a bid to buy some of...

HTA Global takes to the air

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There’s a long-standing narrative in this country that local manufacturing is dying. The demise of Ford, Toyota and most recently, Holden would seem to bear this out. Yet the...