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Minister for Regional Development Harriet Shing announced the completion of family-owned manufacturing business LV Shade & Shutters’ new dual-purpose hub, which is thrice the size of the previous site and can now accommodate a four-fold increase in production while creating seven new jobs.

Siemens has chosen APS Industrial’s Adelaide site to become the first non-Siemens facility worldwide to adapt and assemble Siemens’ air circuit breaker (ACB) with the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Adelaide. 

Tynbell Sheetmetal, a family-owned sheet metal manufacturer headquartered in Adelaide, announced the delivery of its new Bystronic Xpert Pro Press Brake Machine, enabling metals to be processed faster to accommodate growing industry demands.

Australia's flagship deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations has been awarded a $7.8 million grant to enable health and medtech startups to transform world-leading research into lifesaving innovations, which will be housed in the Westmead Health and Innovation District.

The Anticipating Future Skills Series from Jobs Queensland has released four headline employment forecasts for the five-year period 2025-26, estimating total employment of nearly three million, an increase of 207,000 new jobs.

Australia must move fast in response to significant new incentives for sustainable manufacturing now available in the United States and many other industrial countries, or risk being shut out of rich new markets for manufactured items linked to renewable energy systems, a new report revealed. 

The Palaszczuk Government has approved the first $40 million in the Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative, which focuses on young people and will help up to 15,000 disadvantaged Queensland job seekers over the next 12 months.

Premier and Minister for State Development, Trade and the Antarctic, Jeremy Rockliff, has congratulated Elphinstone following their successful joint bid with Hanwha Defense Group to be part of the Land 400 Phase 3 program.

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) will receive $3 million over three years to implement a new Rural and Remote Capacity Building Project to address workforce challenges such as labour shortages and employee retention in rural and remote locations.

Vocus, Australia's specialised fibre and network solutions provider, has activated the first international fibre-optic connection into Darwin, establishing Australia's North as a new entry point for international data and Darwin as a significant digital centre for the Asia Pacific.