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.
Filtration specialist ActionLaser launched its MeltFilter plastic-recycling export brand after a $558,500 AMGC Commercialisation Fund grant, with help from Senarc Services, Simple Motion and Heat Treatment Australia.
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.
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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