KATHY Bartley is the woman of steel. And her superpower is transforming the Gold Coast from a tourism-reliant town to a city that s putting manufacturing on the map. Even better, she s helping change the industry itself into a more female-friendly workplace ⦠a process that surely should now be dubbed wo-manufacturing. But as the general manager of Neumann Steel, the oldest family-run reinforcing steel business in the country and based in Currumbin, Kathy is engaged in some serious business. And never more so than in that historic year of 2020. Kathy Bartley is the general manager of Neumann Steel As exports from China ground to a halt at the height of the pandemic, Neumann Steel stepped in to provide a locally based solution for other Australian companies struggling to source manufacturing parts.
Waste export ban drives rubbish research into local manufacturing
Normal text size
Advertisement
Innovative ideas like turning food waste into biodegradable cling wrap and using artificial intelligence to sort plastics for recycling are the focus of the Morrison government s latest round of federal research funding to help boost local manufacturing.
Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said the research grants would help meet the Morrison government s commitment to phase out exports of unprocessed waste by 2024 and recycle 80 per cent of waste by 2030.
The federal government is funding research by local waste and recycling businesses to help Australia meet a looming deadline on waste exports.
Waste export ban drives rubbish research into local manufacturing
Normal text size
Advertisement
Innovative ideas like turning food waste into biodegradable cling wrap and using artificial intelligence to sort plastics for recycling are the focus of the Morrison government s latest round of federal research funding to help boost local manufacturing.
Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said the research grants would help meet the Morrison government s commitment to phase out exports of unprocessed waste by 2024 and recycle 80 per cent of waste by 2030.
The federal government is funding research by local waste and recycling businesses to help Australia meet a looming deadline on waste exports.
Australia and India partner on COVID-19 research
Photo: Unsplash/Prasesh Shiwakoti
AKIPRESS.COM - Australian and Indian researchers will work together to advance COVID-19 screening and study the future health effects of the virus, after a nearly $4 million investment by the Scott Morrison Government, Just Earth news reported.
The Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) has funded six new projects, including one to develop COVID-19 diagnostic technologies and another study of the longer-term effects on the hearts and lungs of patients who have recovered.
Other projects will develop risk management systems to protect farmers from disasters associated with climate change and demonstrate how food-drying technology using renewable energy can reduce pollution in the food-processing sector.
Australia pledges $3 million for joint research with India on 6 projects, including Covid theprint.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theprint.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.