Yesterday
Ord Minnett, Wilsons brokers join bankers, lawyers at BioPak
Food packaging maker BioPak has boxed up its team for a run at the ASX-boards, although will likely have to wait until next year before putting a deal to listed equities investors.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
Manufacturing leaders call for more women to join their ranks
When Di Kloe started running her manufacturing business in the1980s, people presumed she was the secretary. Now, she wants more women to join her in the industry.
- Hannah Wootton
This Month
The ‘mad scientist’ who could turn Australia’s iron ore green
Calix shares have gone up 800 per cent in two years and founder Mark Sceats has now invented a kiln that he reckons will solve Australia’s iron ore emissions problems and deliver green iron.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
QBE’s Pat Regan targeted by ASIC probe
The circumstances around Pat Regan’s dismissal were the subject of a long-running investigation by ASIC.
- Michael Roddan
Dutch group Aloft moves in on Alcoa’s Portland Aluminium
A new Dutch company run by a former Australian investment banker is in advanced talks to acquire Australia’s second-biggest aluminium producer, Portland Aluminium Smelter, from America’s Alcoa Corporation.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
- Opinion
- Electric cars
BYD margins thin compared to Tesla
Ultra-low pricing strategies are not sustainable. Global prices of raw materials have soared. Electric cars subsidies are set to be phased out by the end of the year.
- The Lex Column
- Opinion
- Cars
Why Volkswagen buyers get a Lamborghini for free
Porsche has been touting its strengths ahead of an IPO later this year with a valuation of around €80 billion – but its parent company Volkswagen is worth less than that.
- Chris Bryant
Audio Pixels’ confidence game
The ASX decides to take an interest in routine delays by Fred Bart’s mini-speaker manufacturer.
- Michael Roddan
June
Musk says new Tesla plants are ‘money furnaces’, losing billions
The comments offer new insight into Tesla’s operations in the days leading up to Musk’s decision to cut costs by laying off employees.
- Sean O'Kane
- Podcast
- Tech Zero
Tech Zero episode 3: the sludge that could save BHP’s carbon footprint
A dam holding BHP’s mine waste is quietly sucking carbon out of the atmosphere and could store enough to offset its entire iron ore and nickel carbon footprint.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
US sanctions helping China supercharge its chip-making industry
That supercharged growth underscores how tensions between Washington and Beijing are transforming the global $789 billion semiconductor industry.
- Bloomberg News
GM may start electric Hummer sales in Europe amid reboot
GM has recently revived the dormant Hummer brand, starting production of the electric pickup in December.
- David Welch, Siddharth Philip and Wilfried Eckl-Dorna
- Exclusive
- Inflation
US food giant to further raise prices as it battles surging costs
General Mills, the company behind well-known brands such as Old El Paso, Betty Crocker and Nature Valley bars, has moved prices higher by up to 17 per cent recently - and more is likely to come.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Podcast
- Tech Zero
Tech Zero episode 2: Andrew Forrest’s half price solar plan
Rombout Swanborn has spent the past decade and a large part of his fortune developing a super-slim solar panel that will dramatically cut the price of solar panels. He wants to make them in Queensland.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Listed robotic bricklaying business FBR raising $4m
Listed bricklaying robot business FBR was asking investors for $4 million on Wednesday to develop the existing technology and to work on the next prototype.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
Gupta wins time to negotiate refinance of European steel
The British billionaire’s Liberty Steel business has signed a standstill agreement with Greensill Bank running until October 31.
- Simon Evans and Jenny Wiggins
Igneo checks into Loscam ANZ auction
At least two big players are readying bids for pallet polling business Loscam’s Australia and New Zealand assets.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
US steps up Tesla Autopilot probe after almost 200 crashes
The road safety regulator has the power to order recalls, and its investigation could force the electric carmaker’s chief executive, Elon Musk, to come up with better safeguards.
- Keith Laing and Craig Trudell
Trade players circle building materials biz BGC; bids next week
West Australia’s BGC Group, which makes $100 million a year selling bricks, cement and the like, has reeled in several listed suitors as sell-side adviser Macquarie Capital calls for indicative bids next week.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
- Podcast
- Tech Zero
Tech Zero episode 1: the science of the lambs
Joanne Howarth wants to fleece the polystyrene packaging industry. She plans to replace the squeaky packing material made from oil or methane with something more environment-friendly: wool.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
