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Manufacturing has formally commenced on Austal’s Horizon X high-speed ferry project, with the company cutting the first steel plate for the vessel at its Philippines shipyard in Balamban, Cebu, marking the start of construction for Sweden’s Gotlandsbolaget.

Manufacturing waste from Geelong’s carpet industry could be used in advanced manufacturing applications after the City of Greater Geelong voted to fund joint research into alternative materials for large-scale 3D printing, according to a council media release.

The NSW Government has unveiled a new net zero display home in southwest Sydney, aimed at showing households how energy-efficient design could help reduce emissions and lower energy bills. 

Manufacturing and industrial coatings assessment could be reshaped under a new collaboration announced by Sparc Technologies Limited, which has partnered with the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) at the University of Adelaide to develop AI-driven software aimed at modernising how protective coatings performance is evaluated.

The South Australian Government says a Murraylands-based manufacturer has begun producing steel tunnel segments for the state’s River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) Project, marking a major step in the delivery of the non-stop South Road.

New Holland’s DuraVee wheel rake range has officially earned Australian Made certification, marking nearly three decades of local manufacturing in Cowra. 

The Queensland Government has opened the first round of the Transforming Queensland Manufacturing Grants Program (TQMGP), offering $12.5 million in matched funding to support the state’s manufacturing sector. 

Cohesion Labels is commemorating a century of manufacturing in Australia, drawing on its history from a small typographic house in 1925 to a contemporary label production business, the company said in a video released to mark the milestone.

Australian Vanadium Limited says its integrated vanadium and manufacturing capability underpins an Expression of Interest submitted for the Western Australian Government’s proposed Kalgoorlie Vanadium Battery Energy Storage System (VBESS), a project aimed at long-duration energy storage and regional economic development.

The Australian government has announced the design of a new $5 billion Net Zero Fund aimed at supporting manufacturing and industrial decarbonisation, with the initiative positioned as a central element of its Future Made in Australia strategy.