Managing Director, Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre
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Western Australia's wind energy manufacturing co-investment scheme, administered by AMGC, has granted coil maker Australian Winders $488,204, its first award, to automate production, expand capacity and create 25 jobs.
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Industry body AMGC publicises two past grant recipients that commercialised imaging technology: mDetect's muon system for tailings dam safety and EQ Resources' hyperspectral tungsten sorting, with grants of $248,191 and $600,000.
Headsafe's Nurochek concussion-screening headset has won US FDA approval, with development earlier backed by a $447,500 AMGC grant; the company is now pursuing certifications in several more regions.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: OncoSil Medical's capital raising, an NT grant for a water monitoring project, GoZero's preferred supplier appointment, Micro-X's first Argus order, Aurora Labs' defence work, and Monash waste-recycling research.
Feature arguing Australia needs more scaleup manufacturers, featuring interviews with Gilmour Space, Breakthrough Victoria and Harvest B, set against the nation's declining economic complexity ranking.
Molycop has commercialised a process substituting recycled rubber for coke in electric arc furnace steelmaking, backed by a $750,000 AMGC Commercialisation Fund contribution and collaboration with UNSW's SMaRT Centre and Crawford Boots.
Materials developer Kinaltek has signed an agreement letting UPL Speciality Chemicals use its one-step alloy process for catalyst production in India; its Sydney pilot plant was built with a government grant.
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A Sydney space incubator, a joint venture of TCG Group and Saber Astronautics, hosts six startups; three collaborate on an earth observation project supported by a manufacturing grant and university engineering help.
Twenty-four Australian manufacturers have won federal grants via AMGC's Commercialisation Fund, spanning clean energy, medical, food, defence, resources and space projects, with industry co-investment lifting total project funding beyond $32 million.
Twenty-four Australian manufacturers received grants totalling just over nine million dollars under the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre's Commercialisation Fund, matched by far larger private co-investment across six national manufacturing priority areas.
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EQ Resources received a $600,000 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant for a tungsten ore-sorting project with Tomra, Plotlogic, University of Queensland and Cronimet Australia; the project's total budget is $1.97 million.
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Verton's Windmaster load-control system has reached proof-of-concept testing for wind turbine installation, backed by an AMGC commercialisation grant and industry partners Mammoet, Van Oord and Vestas contributing to the project.
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Sydney dialysis startup Ellen Medical Devices received a $427,500 grant from AMGC's Commercialisation Fund to help manufacture its low-cost dialysis system, lifting total development investment to $1.04 million.
AMGC's Commercialisation Fund granted $6.1 million to ten manufacturers in tranches four and five, including $568,491 for Samsara's plastic-recycling pilot plant, with industry co-contributions lifting total project investment to $49.8 million.
Swinburne spin-out mDetect has received a $1.5 million government grant to commercialise muon-based sensors that detect weaknesses in mining tailings dams, with OZ Minerals an early adopter and local manufacturing partners involved.
Fifteen Australian manufacturers share $7.16 million in federal Commercialisation Fund grants across two tranches, with industry contributing $17.95 million toward projects spanning clean energy, medical devices, recycling, defence and food technology.
Energy Renaissance will build a pilot lithium-ion battery factory at Tomago in NSW, backed by a $525,072 AMGC grant, ahead of a larger commercial-scale plant.
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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.
Rove Concepts has built a pre-production 3D-printed titanium and carbon fibre wheelchair prototype, supported by a $180,000 government grant via AMGC, collaborating with Adaptive Concepts, ANU and Bastion Cycles.
Redarc Electronics announced an Industry 4.0 project backed by a $399,770 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant, working with partners including Swinburne University, and expects up to 35 new jobs.
Imaging startup 1Millikelvin received a $149,800 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant to commercialise MiTE, a portable infrared stress-measuring device developed with Defence scientists alongside partners Outerspace and RMIT University.
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Fishing camera maker Siren Cameras received a $178,250 co-investment grant from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre to help establish domestic production, with the overall project budgeted at $356,500.
Tasmanian Oyster Co received an Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant to develop laser etching technology that authenticates and brands its oyster shells for export markets.
Energy Renaissance wins federal co-funding for local battery production while Magnis Energy Technologies announces new development partners, with its partner CV4 securing New York State and BAE Systems support for transit batteries.
The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre has been granted $2 million in federal funding to run a new innovation hub for prefabricated construction, intended to deepen collaboration between industry and researchers.
Battery maker Energy Renaissance receives an AMGC co-funded grant of $246,625 to help build automated battery manufacturing, while its gigafactory location remains undecided.
Doftek is developing an active wheel alignment system backed by an Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant; the article also recalls the earlier acquisition of founder Geoff Rogers' cardiac guidewire invention by Merit Medical Systems.
BluGlass receives a $250,000 Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre grant, matched by the company, to develop plasma deposition sources for its semiconductor production equipment.
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An Australian manufacturing industry body is co-funding Gilmour Space's push for lighter rocket fuel tanks, matching the company's contribution, within a Queensland collaboration also involving a university and two materials firms.
IoT startup Cellr won government backing to commercialise NFC bottle-cap anti-fraud tech for wine. Its team graduated from Founder Institute; Chris Braine recently attended SA's FOMENT program.
The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre is co-funding VSPC, a Lithium Australia subsidiary in Brisbane, to develop cathode production from recycled battery material, with university and corporate partners also involved.