Tag: manufacturing

ASCA buys 300 sovereign drones under $6.6m challenge

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Budding Australian drone manufacturers AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba Technologies have shared $6.6 million in Defence production contracts following the success of their prototypes under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities...

UTS research underpins low carbon concrete innovation

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Australian clay will be used as the base material for a lower carbon concrete following a successful trial between construction materials giant Boral and CleanTech company Calix. As the...

SMEs secure $1.9m from Victorian manufacturing grants

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Nine small to medium-sized manufacturers have secured $1.9 million in grants in the latest round of the Made in Victoria manufacturing growth program. The recipient businesses operate in a...

Govt defends blue hydrogen funding amid green push

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The Albanese government has defended its investment in a controversial coal-to-hydrogen project with the Victorian state government because it honours a Turnbull-era commitment to Japanese partners. Pre-commercialisation support for...

PC raises alarm on govt’s comparative advantage bets

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The Productivity Commission is challenging a foundation of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia agenda, arguing Treasury is inappropriately using an oft-cited economic theory as grounds for interventionist...

World’s largest battery maker makes first Aussie R&D move

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CATL, the world’s largest lithium-ion battery manufacturer, has entered its first Australian research and development partnership, linking up with electric vehicle charger producer Gold Coast-based eLumina. eLumina confirmed on...

Future Made in Australia Bill lands in Parliament

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The Albanese government has paved the way for a new era of interventionist industrial policy based on community benefit with the arrival of its Future Made in Australia legislation....

Qld charts Australia’s battery supply chain

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More than half the companies in Australia’s battery supply chain are either equipment suppliers or offer integration services and maintenance, according to a new database launched by the Queensland...