Female Toyota Technician takes home top prize in National Skills Competition
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Twenty two-year-old Queenslander Natasha Smith has become the first woman in the world to win the Technician Champion award in Toyota’s National Skills...
New Prefab Innovation Hub to boost jobs and economy
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A new Innovation Hub is set to supercharge Australia’s prefabricated building industry, potentially creating thousands of new jobs and adding up to $30...
Naval Group Pacific and UNSW Sydney demonstrate potential new applications of composite material
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Naval Group Pacific, in partnership with the ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC) at UNSW Sydney, has successfully demonstrated...
MTPConnect’s REDI Fellowship Program Re-opens – Call for Industry Sponsors to Apply for Final...
MTPConnect’s popular REDI Fellowship program has re-opened to provide further grants of up to $250,000 to industry to secure a limited number of fellowships...
Light years ahead: the advanced chip shaping an ultrafast tech future
Research led by Monash University, RMIT and the University of Adelaide has developed an accurate method of controlling optical circuits on fingernail-sized photonic integrated circuits.
The $60b JobKeeper ‘Windfall’ – Best Used To Boost Local Manufacturing Capabilities Says Accounting...
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Professor Janek Ratnatunga, CEO of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA), makes the case in an article titled "Funding Manufacturing Post COVID-19:...
$7.5M modern manufacturing grant for Alcore
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Alcore has been granted $7.5M from the Australian Government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative to support its proposed $16.4M aluminium smelter bath...
OnRobot launches D:PLOY in Australia; dramatically reduces robotic deployment time by up to 90%
OnRobot, the world’s leading provider of hardware and software solutions for collaborative robotic applications, has launched the industry's first automated platform for deployment of collaborative applications – D:PLOY - in Australia.
Electric vehicles to recharge Australian manufacturing
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Australian Clean Energy Electric Vehicle Group (ACE-EV) has signed a deal to begin assembling carbon fibre composite and plastic electric vans at the...
New coatings to deliver longer-life seated ball valves for critical minerals processing
The critical minerals industry could soon have access to longer-life seated ball valves thanks to a $585,000 research collaboration between the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC), Callidus Welding Solutions (CWS) and the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) at Deakin University.
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How growth capital is helping an Australian manufacturer go global
There’s a particular kind of ingenuity that flourishes in regional Australia. Away from the noise of major business centres, founders build companies that quietly become world leaders in their field, solving deep specialised problems that global markets didn’t know could be solved. Modra Technology, based in Warragul in regional Victoria, is one of those companies.
