Brent Balinski

Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. Rachael Barritt from Dovetail Electric Aviation has been named Swinburne University’s first Founder in Residence, with a focus on “new ideas and ventures”…

From conservatorium to qubits (podcast)

A lucky find by researchers could help Australian efforts to scale up the number of qubits on their microchips. Brent Balinski spoke to Dr Will Gilbert from Diraq about computing with puddles of electrons, and his unusual career so far. As Dr Andre…

Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. Steel makers are looking towards net zero with hydrogen produced from renewable sources the world’s best bet on decarbonising this essential industry.…

@AuManufacturing releases 2023 media kit

As people in media roles return to normal programming and get stuck in in earnest, @AuManufacturing is delighted to present our 2023 media kit. It features updated information on our ever-growing reach, pricing information, and an expanded collection…

Gluten and grumpy old men

Plant-based meat will overcome political tribalism and move into mainstream acceptance as technology progresses and prices come down, believes Harvest B co-founder and CEO Kristi Riordan. By Brent Balinski. There are plant-based meat companies, such…

Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. Privately owned Queensland defence contractor NIOA has entered US military manufacturing with the 100 per cent acquisition of the Tennessee rifle design…

Rethinking what Australia can and should do in silicon

Last year the former government asked the nation’s Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, to develop a national semiconductor plan. Brent Balinski spoke to Foley to learn what’s happened since, and for her perspective on where Australia can expand its…

A look at the five biggest manufacturing stories of 2022

We have had a look through the Google Analytics results for the year just past and can share a list of the five most popular stories below, as voted by visitors to @AuManufacturing’s website. Unsurprisingly, some of the defining issues of 2022 —…

Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

For the last time in 2022, we recap the five biggest stories of the week. Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. One of Australia’s most respected property developers has put a bold plan to the South Australian government to revive the steel…

Australia’s place in the semiconductor world: the issue in a nutshell

Today in Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Steven Duvall distills semiconductors and how they’re used, why Australia needs to play a more significant role in the their manufacture, and how it can do this. In this Q and A, which is also…

Aussie hemp industry’s high ambitions

The global market for hemp is predicted to nearly quadruple in value between 2020 and 2027, reaching $US 18.6 billion. This is according to an UNCTAD report released this week, also noting hemp’s hardiness across a wide range of climates, its ability…

Matching magnets with a market

A scientific breakthrough is a long way from being a product, as people trying for the first time to commercialise a program of research quickly find out. “Any investor who works with an early-stage deep tech university… spinout will tell you the…

To clean up Australia’s power grid, we’re going to need many thousands more skilled workers – and fast

By Jay Rutovitz, University of Technology Sydney; Chris Briggs, University of Technology Sydney, and Rusty Langdon, University of Technology Sydney To get Australia’s grid 82% powered by renewables by 2030 is a huge increase. At present, the…

Australia’s place in the semiconductor world – Software may be eating the world but software is nothing without semiconductors

Due to an unexpected number of high-quality contributions, @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s place in the semiconductor world editorial series has been extended again. Here Mike Nicholls writes that Australia has the opportunity to build a thriving…

Simplified ingredient lists and increased economic complexity

By Brent Balinski One criticism from non-fans of plant-based meat is that options tend to come with a sizeable ingredient list, featuring a lot of unnatural-sounding words which might require a chemist or a lot of googling to decipher. Alfred Lo,…

You can still get backing if you do something useful, Additive Assurance finds

Venture capital investment has slowed this year. But if your company does something that solves a real-world problem and that customers want as a result, then you can still get funded, believes Marten Jurg from Additive Assurance. Jurg’s company…

Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. GFG Alliance chairman Sanjeev Gupta has announced a massive boost to his Whyalla, South Australia iron ore mining operations as well as the production of…

Perfectly-fitting descriptions might be hard, but manufacturing definitely matters for Bodd

Bodd didn’t start out wanting to be a data and insights company, but that’s what they are, among other things. Formerly Tec.Fit, their focus was originally enabling perfectly-fitting suits, designing and making scanners to collect physical data and…

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

CSL opens its latest Victorian factory Biotechnology giant CSL has just formally opened its latest investment in Victorian pharmaceutical manufacture. The company’s $900 million Plasma Fractionation Facility (pictured) is the largest of its kind in…

Australian company awarded grant to bring semiconductor packaging onshore

Biological sample tracking technology company Bluechiip has been awarded a $787,810 grant under the federal government’s Supply Chain Resilience Initiative, which will cover half the cost of a new semiconductor dicing and packing operation. The…