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| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Connolly | Chair | @AuManufacturing |
| Julia Spicer | Deputy Chair | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Australia's Economic Accelerator. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
A university spinout commercialising concrete recycling has secured pre-seed backing from Genesis Pre-Seed Fund and Uniseed to build a pilot plant, with field trials planned for early 2027.
University of Melbourne spinout R2Crete, recycling waste concrete into aggregates and cement replacement, raised $750,000 pre-seed from the uni's Genesis fund and Uniseed to build a pilot plant.
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Australian biotech ReNerve and RMIT received a government grant of nearly AUD500,000 for a joint project aiming to speed nerve repair after prostate operations, under a federal program.
South Australian hollow-core fibre navigation project by Adelaide University, Northrop Grumman Australia and Norseld won almost half a million dollars in federal Ignite grant funding, adding to earlier Defence Trailblazer support.
Weekly roundup of readers' five favourite stories: a hydrogen grant for 1414 Degrees, LS Precast's rail tunnel contract, AML3D's US Navy pact, quantum clock breakthrough, and Suntory Oceania's launch.
The hydrogen partnership and a university have won a $2.75 million federal Innovate grant to advance a South Australian pilot reactor, adding to money their shareholders committed during 2025.
The federal government will open the next Ignite and Innovate grant round on 23 July and has announced 39 newly funded Innovate projects, with about $178 million awarded so far under the program.
University of Southern Queensland-led researchers won an AEA Ignite grant of $198,679 to develop duckweed grown on dairy manure as biofuel feedstock, working with the University of Adelaide and Active Research.
Griffith University researchers, backed by an Economic Accelerator seed grant, have built a proof-of-concept silicon carbide transistor that removes energy-wasting losses; startup Silvertech is partnering to commercialise it.
Roundup: Space Machines' joint India mission clears a design milestone with an $8.5m government grant behind it, RMIT and Skykraft scale up photonics-based navigation tech, and SunCable names a new group CEO.
University of Melbourne researchers describe a faster acoustic bioprinting method for human-like tissue; PhD candidate Callum Vidler's project recently won a $199,482 seed grant via the national AEA pilot program.
BluGlass will supply GaN laser chips for an underwater LiDAR project alongside Macquarie University and defence firm Aurizn, with backing from a government seed grant; revenue so far is immaterial.
Manufacturing sector roundup: Whyalla steelworks resumes production, Maggie Beer Holdings' chief executive to depart, ReNu Energy secures hydrogen funding, Defence names grant recipients, Orthocell gains Canadian approval, and AEA appoints its advisory board.
Sparc Hydrogen has selected a site near Adelaide for a pilot plant proving its solar-driven hydrogen process, after on-sun trials at CSIRO's Newcastle facility, with the project backed by two grant programs.
Deep tech venture firm Main Sequence has reached an initial A$450 million close on its third fund, pushing money under management past A$1 billion; Hostplus, Temasek and CSIRO are among the backers.
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