February 3, 2021
Micro-X managing director Peter Rowland and South Australian Premier Steven Marshall pose with the Nano (L to R). Source: Tonsley.
Micro-X has received funding commitments of $30.5 million to help expand its US footprint and fast-track new lightweight x-ray products.
The publicly-listed company announced to the Australian Securities Exchange this morning it had received funding commitments totalling $30.5 million for new fully paid shares at 34 cents each. It is also proposing to undertake a share purchase plan to raise a further $2.5 million from existing investors.
The funds will allow the South Australian-based company to open a US office in Seattle to support its Airport Self Service Checkpoint project for the US Department for Homeland Security. The project involves the development of a mobile baggage scanner for airports.
Settle petal: Why the Jurlique rose is worth bottling
Settle petal: Why the Jurlique rose is worth bottling
By Robin Powell
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Everyone grows roses in South Australia. There are even roses instead of weeds in the roundabouts. So it stands to reason that South Australia has produced some fine rose breeders. One of them is George Thomson, who has been breeding roses since the 1960s. Thomson has worked closely with Willunga-based Ross Roses, which for the past two decades has specialised in Australian-bred roses. Thomson’s ‘Hans Heysen’, thought to be the only rose with ‘Pierre de Ronsard’ in its parentage, is a beauty, as is ‘Crown Princess Mary’. Yet his most influential rose is one that is only available to gardeners as a beauty product, not a plant.