Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC)

Xefco secures A$10.5m to reduce textile emissions - Investible

Textile technology company Xefco has raised A$10.5 million, led by Main Sequence with Investible, Breakthrough Victoria, Virescent Ventures and Voyagers taking part, to commercialise its water-free dyeing and finishing system.

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Green energy, refrigerants and reshoring

Podcast interview with Green Thermal Energy Technologies managing director Paul Keen on high-speed turbomachinery, heat pumps and a RMIT project, backed by an Innovative Manufacturing CRC grant, to reshore production.

Partnership produces powder progress

Podcast episode with Conflux and Deakin researchers discussing their collaborative aluminium alloy development project for additive manufacturing, also recalling Conflux's Series A raise, an IMCRC grant, and defence work with General Atomics.

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Australian team develops more durable antiviral PPE coatings through R&D project

Frontiers in additive manufacturing – ANCA's hybrid AM development enters advanced phase

ANCA's hybrid additive-subtractive toolmaking machine project advances, backed by a $928,000 nine-month IMCRC-supported collaboration, following earlier funded work with CSIRO, a $390,000 AMGC grant and Victorian Government voucher support.

MotorOne, Swinburne team up for Industrial IoT project

MotorOne Group is leading a six-month manufacturing digitalisation project with Swinburne University and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC, backed by a $63,000 activate program grant, to capture factory data at its Bayswater facility.

Bee-inspired biopolymer project will develop new textile coatings

New Zealand biotech Humble Bee Bio received a $70,000 grant via IMCRC's activate program to work with Deakin University on a bee-inspired, water-repellent textile coating.

Industrial fabric company leads new mystery material project

GALE Pacific has received a $70,000 grant through the Innovative Manufacturing CRC's activate program for an eight-month fabric development project with Deakin University at its Carbon Nexus facility.

Australian team is developing new IoT sensors to monitor highway health

A geotechnical consultancy is partnering with a university research group and a manufacturing research corporation to build compact, low-cost roadway monitoring sensors, with the work backed by support from a program grant.

Speedpanel, Deakin partner on new steel forming and joining solutions

Building products maker Speedpanel wins a $100,000 grant for a ten-month steel manufacturing project alongside Deakin University and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC, having earlier received an $877,000 IMCRC grant in 2019.

Phosenergy awarded grant to develop waste heat-to-energy product

Adelaide clean-tech firm Phosenergy won an Innovative Manufacturing CRC activate grant to develop GenT, a panel converting waste heat into electricity, with the University of South Australia's Future Industries Institute collaborating.

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IMCRC awards grant to project that could cut textile industry’s water use

A plasma-coating company, a university and a manufacturing research centre will develop lower-water textile dyeing, supported through the centre's Activate grants program; a related facemask venture with PPK was flagged in September.

Australian technology for moving crane loads in high-wind areas gets $178,000 grant

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New diode manufacturing process attracts grant support

Questsemi and Griffith University won an Innovative Manufacturing CRC Activate grant for silicon carbide diode fabrication research; the $1.3 million project includes a pilot production facility, and Alcolizer and FormFlow are past program recipients.

Manufacturers awarded $3.7 million in grants through commercialisation fund

Six manufacturers share $3.7 million in grants from the AMGC Commercialisation Fund; Alcolizer receives $742,363 for a rapid Covid-19 test, having earlier won a $150,000 IMCRC grant.

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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

SEA Electric orders batteries after a $54m raise; Baraja raises $40m for LIDAR, led by Blackbird; Stealth demos weed detection; Wattle Health lifts profit and sells its dairy arm; Hydac wins VR training grant.

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FormFlow, Deakin University to develop Industry 4.0 cell for metal forming

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Manufacturing roundup: DevelopmentWA seeks robotics precinct partners, AML3D completes a 3D-printed propeller, Bionomics licenses CAR-T to Carina Biotech, and University of Sydney wins a grant supporting Vaxxas vaccine-patch research.

$150,000 grant for Australian rapid Covid test

A University of Technology Sydney and Alcolizer project wins an IMCRC Activate grant to advance a rapid saliva-based Covid-19 test toward manufacturing readiness.

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IMCRC funds Neometals to make synthetic zeolite

Neometals, IMCRC and Queensland University of Technology will partner on a plant turning lithium refining waste into zeolites, with the CRC contributing $2.57 million and the other two adding in-kind support.

Hydrogen company announces $4.4 m research project on advanced carbon materials

Hazer has received an $810,000 Innovative Manufacturing CRC grant for a research project with the University of Sydney on graphite applications, part of a $4.4 million project running to 2022.