grants and funding

​Ethan Automotive is reportedly seeking $600 million from the federal government for a planned Edinburgh Parks factory.

​There is reportedly division among senior ministers on whether the NCRIS should be cut, as promised, if higher education reforms don’t pass the Senate.

​As many as 100 new jobs will be created in a ​Sync Building Systems factory expansion in Brooklyn.

Tasmanian businesses have received $13 million in grants from the Innovation and Investment Fund.

​Yesterday’s auto funding announcement has been met with skepticism.

​Defence minister David Johnston yesterday lashed out at Australian Submarine Corporation as incapable of building a canoe.

​Jobs have been a major issue in the Victorian election campaign.

As the year draws to a close, Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane discusses the major issues facing Australia’s manufacturing industry with Manufacturers’ Monthly’s Editor-at-Large, Alan Johnson.

​US President Barack Obama has announced that his government will direct over half a billion dollars to efforts to strengthen the manufacturing sector.

​High value manufacturers in Victoria and South Australia have been encouraged to apply for the ​Next Generation Manufacturing Investment Programme.

​Carbon composites technology company Quickstep has received a $1.76 million grant, which it will use to create an automotive division.

The Industry Growth Centre initiative in yesterday’s competitiveness agenda would create better links between science and business.

The federal government will fund industry growth centres in five sectors that will encourage better use by business of Australian research.

The federal government has announced its Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda this afternoon.

​The federal government’s industry competitiveness statement is expected this Wednesday.

After initially manufacturing a different bike wheel overseas, company owner Mello Bouwmeester decided to bring the composites work to Adelaide, South Australia.

Industry minister Ian Macfarlane has said that the upcoming National Industry Investment and Competitiveness Agenda will follow a “tough love” approach to assistance.

​Research has found a third of businesses around Holden’s Elizabeth plant at risk of closure due to the end of car manufacturing in Australia.

​Australia’s chief scientist, Ian Chubb, has said that research funding levels should be examined and investment refocussed following cuts.

​Australia’s chief scientist, Ian Chubb, has said that research funding levels should be examined and investment refocussed following cuts.