Tag: manufacturing

MTPConnect secures $28.5m for MedTech accelerator

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A $28.5 million commercialisation boost will soon be available to MedTechs fighting heart disease and diabetes under the latest round of a Medical Research Future Fund program. The second...

Defence supply chain program skews to a handful of SMEs

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Fewer than a dozen companies secured most of the benefit under Defence’s Global Supply Chain Program in its first 15 years, according to an independent review kept under wraps...

NRF Corporation under audit office microscope

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The establishment of a corporation in charge of the Albanese government’s $15 billion manufacturing fund is being audited, with an outside firm quietly tapped to assist the federal audit...

ASCA buys 300 sovereign drones under $6.6m challenge

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
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

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
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

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
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

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
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

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
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...