Emily Piesse

Cell therapy technology company OrthoCell Pty Ltd has built a $1.2 million laboratory facility at its Murdoch University base to service both its own research needs and those of other biotherapeutic companies in Western Australia.

Western Australian businesses remain optimistic about the state’s economic environment, despite rising input costs and labour shortages, according to the June quarter 2007 Commonwealth Bank – CCI Survey of Business Expectations.

Western Australia, once a national leader in educating foreign students, is struggling to retain its share of the international student pool.

The pressure on industry to reduce its water usage could not have come at a better time for Clearguard Pty Ltd, which has developed a product to substantially reduce water consumption and improve safety at alumina refineries, pulp mills and other process

Despite some initial setbacks, Nobel Prize winner and medical research scientist Professor Barry Marshall is making inroads after some early setbacks with his spin-off company, Ondek Pty Ltd, which plans to licence an oral vaccine delivery system develope

Australian exporters will be able to take advantage of a free international business networking program during next year’s Beijing Olympic Games.

Strong business investment and increased household spending have contributed to the fastest growth in Australia’s gross domestic product in more than three years.

Nedlands-based Visiomed Group Ltd has signed an agrement worth around $3 million with UK medical distributor Clinisupplies Ltd to supply its Funhaler paediatric asthma spacer to major pharmacy chains Boots and Lloyds, among other outlets.

Western Australia’s mining and resources companies will have two new recruitment providers available to them from next month, following the re-establishment of an engineering specialist agency in WA and the emergence of a new player in the market.