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.

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.