Albury Precision Engineering celebrates silver jubilee
Albury Precision Engineering (APE), Australia’s sole manufacturer of Crump Spreaders for famers, is celebrating 25 years of individualised design and manufacturing services and developing...
Ego boost to create 63 new jobs and bring an additional $40m to Victorian...
Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd has been awarded a $250,000 Victorian Coalition Government grant to expand its Braeside facility and double bottle filling capacity across...
Blackstone acquires Orica’s Chemicals business
Leading Investment firm Blackstone has agreed to purchase Orica Limited’s Chemicals business for A$750 million.
It comes after the chemicals and explosives maker announced in...
Australian-Sino food partnership formalised
The formalising of a commitment to the Australian-Sino 100-year Agricultural and Food Safety Partnership on Tuesday will see Tasmania inch closer to becoming a...
Robots can learn to handle e-waste – researchers claim
The dismantling of most end-of-life products is labour intensive and costly. Many attempts of automating the disassembly process have been unsuccessful. However, researchers from...
New 3D print service for Australians
3DPrint-AU – an offshoot of 3D Printing Systems, Australia’s leading distributor of 3D Printers – has launched a new 3D printing service for Australia...
GSK to invest $31 million in next generation manufacturing
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and UK Prime Minister David Cameron have welcomed GSK Australia’s announcement of a $31 million investment in next-generation manufacturing...
Manufacturing research takes hardest hit in latest CSIRO job axing
A total of 75 jobs will be cut at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – Australia’s leading research agency.
Future manufacturing research...
ABB’s donation drives learning in power electronics at Monash University
Multinational power and automation technology corporation ABB recently donated more than $150,000 in drives, motors and PLC equipment to the Electrical Power Engineering (EPE)...
Australia and China sign FTA – mixed reactions from industry and unions
After being locked in negotiations for almost ten years, Australia and China have finally signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
“This agreement is the first...
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AVEVA and Schneider Electric spearhead digital transformation in mining
AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software driving digital transformation, has partnered with Schneider Electric to redefine what smart, sustainable mining looks like in the age of AI.
