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Sydney, NSW

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Unnamed stage $7.5m

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

AuManufacturing roundup of brief industry news: Wide Open Agriculture banks a $7.5 million raise, Liontown adds a lithium offtake partner, Osteopore signs Zimmer Biomet for distribution, plus quantum, defence, rail and recycling items.

Key hire

SunCable poaches solar and gas industry execs to lead baseload renewables project

SunCable appoints two industry executives — Cameron Garnsworthy as Australian managing director and Martin Hay as chief development officer — to drive the onshore component of its Northern Territory baseload solar and storage project.

Exit / M&A

Eaton Square Advises Extent Heritage On Its Sale To RSK Australia

Eaton Square says it acted for Extent Heritage, an archaeology and heritage consultancy, in the company's sale to RSK Australia, with principals Roger Collins-Woolcock and Mark Goodwin leading the mandate. No price disclosed.

Funding announcement

Billion-dollar demand as well as regulation struggles for hydrogen innovator

Profile of hydrogen storage maker Lavo: $65 million in pre-orders, utility-scale orders exceeding a billion dollars, grants and investor backing, with regulation and certification named as its biggest hurdles.

2 deals

Investors look for billion dollar Aconex repeat as Mastt secures $9.5 million

Construction software firm Mastt has banked $9.5 million from OIF Ventures and other backers, including the Aconex founders' fund, to fuel its push into the United States and Middle East.

Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Cut Through Venture·Startup Daily

Grant $3m

Plans for world-first solar power plant in western Victoria

Australia's renewable energy agency is putting $3 million towards RayGen's feasibility study for a proposed 4 MW dispatchable solar-and-storage plant near Mildura, adding to its earlier backing of the startup's technology.

Also ARENA·RenewEconomy·RenewEconomy·RenewEconomy

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