Recently Sandfire Resources, a gold and copper producer based in Western Australia, announced its new solar power plant will soon start powering its DeGrussa mine.
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Geofabrics’ future grounded in innovation
As many firms will tell you, “business as usual” means falling behind. Brent Balinski spoke to senior management at Geofabrics Australasia about how they look to all employees to help refresh their operations.
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Paper shows how to turn plastic landfill into fuel
Research led by chemist Zheng Huang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated a way to break down polyethylenes into a liquid fuels.
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Samsung bendable phones could be in the works
Samsung is working on two new smartphone products with bendable organic LED screens, it is being reported.
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Monash and Melbourne Universities join forces in new company to market medicines
Traditional rivals Monash and Melbourne Universities are collaborating to create a new company that will market and sell medicines developed by the institutions to pharmaceutical companies, reinvesting
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Pumped about the future
Recent Endeavour Awards champion Admedus is growing briskly, with their tissue engineering process being used to repair hearts all over the world. Brent Balinski spoke to the company’s chief operating
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From disrupter to disrupted: Apple could be next
Small and bright: what nanophotonics means for you
Twenty fifteen was UNESCO’s International Year of Light and Light based Technologies. It was a celebration of past milestones in optics and photonics
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Australian researcher in India to discuss high-tech manufacturing
$1.5 million tall timber buildings research grant awarded
Hyne Timber, in partnership with the University of Queensland, has welcomed the announcement of more than $1.5 million funding for tall timber buildings research.
The funding announcement by the Australian
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World-first Australian 3D printing material announced
Chemson Pacific has announced a claimed world-first 3D printing feedstock, 3D Vinyl.
The material was invented, developed and tested in Australia, and is believed to be the first PVC material for additive
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Not just for quantum computing and not just for academics
UNSW is home to a vast array of world-class nano and micro-fabrication tools, available to electronics manufacturers looking for an edge in product development. Brent Balinski spoke to ANFF NSW’s
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Chinese agribusiness invests in SA biotech
GLOBAL Chinese agribusiness Shandong Tianjiu Industrial Group has entered into a three-year $1 million joint research agreement with South Australian institution Flinders University to expand a world-class microalgae and related advanced marine bioproduct development centre.
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Super-strength spinifex offer industry, jobs hopes in QLD
Indigenous spinifex nanofibres that have potential to manufacture strong, lightweight plastics and rubber are the subject of a partnership between Aboriginal rangers at Camooweal and the University of
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United States to overtake China in manufacturing competitiveness by 2020: Deloitte exec survey
The United States is predicted to regain its place as the most competitive manufacturing nation in the world, according to a global survey of hundreds of executives.
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Whereto Industry Policy?
The recent announcement by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to establish a new Centre for Defence Industry Capability (CDIC) headquartered in Adelaide adds a new dimension to Australian Government industry policy, crafted in the lead-up to a Federal Election.
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CSL to double R&D staff at growing Parkville biotech hub
The University of Melbourne-headquartered Bio21 will add a new building, with biotherapeutics company CSL beefing up its research presence at the Parkville research hub.
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IoT centre launched at Australian Technology Park
Cisco and a large group of partners have launched Innovation Central, an effort to develop start-ups based on connected devices.
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Australia’s outgoing Chief Scientist says we’re good but we can be better
Today marks Professor Ian Chubb’s final day as Australia’s Chief Scientist. It’s a position he’s held for almost five years, during some of Australia’s most turbulent political times.
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Industry policy – industrialisation imperatives
As Australian manufacturers return to work after the Christmas/New Year break, some are no doubt reflecting on the Turnbull government's new promise of Australia becoming the “big ideas” nation.
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