Dan Tehan

Victoria’s Portland aluminium smelter has been secured after an electricity deal struck with the nation’s biggest energy retailers backed by support from the federal government, announced in December. Alcoa will keep the smelter operating until 2026 will protect around 500 jobs and other workers in the region that rely on the plant’s continued operation. The … Continue reading 500 jobs secured at Portland aluminium smelter →

A new centre for research into green manufacturing will enable Australian manufacturers to adopt environmentally-friendly chemical processes. Housed at Monash University, the ARC Training Centre for Green Chemistry in Manufacturing brings together researchers from Monash, Flinders, Deakin and Curtin universities. “New innovations based on green chemistry principles applied in Australian manufacturing will provide technical and … Continue reading Centre for green chemistry opens at Monash University →

New Australian Research Council (ARC) Centres of Excellence will provide funding for scientific research to advance manufacturing techniques in a range of fields, from synthetic biology, to nano materials, and automated decision-making. Announcing the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, highlighted how the centre, and others like it … Continue reading New research centres to underpin advanced manufacturing →

The Federal Government is providing $3.1 million over five years to set up a new research training centre at the University of Melbourne that will advance clinical trials and testing. Through organ-on-a-chip and bioprinting enabling technologies, the ARC Training Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies aims to improve selection of new medicines for progress to clinical trials and … Continue reading New research centre to help accelerate drug development →

Despite pessimism and gloom in the market, the food and beverage manufacturing sector has a bright future. Brent Balinski reports.

The National Food Plan has failed to consider the country’s food processing sector, believes a federal MP.