Perth shipbuilder will manufacture novel unmanned drone surveillance vessels developed by California’s Saildrone (pictured) as well as develop new autonomous vessels and build aircraft carrier ship elevators among a number of contracts revealed by the company that are potentially worth $108 million. One of the contracts involves Austal staff learning and developing ways to manufacture…
Hexagon Energy Materials is to begin preliminary feasibility studies to be completed this year for a proposed hydrogen production facility incorporating carbon capture and storage in Western Australia. As the project is based on the use of natural gas feedstock the company describes it as ‘blue hydrogen’ to distinguish from the low to zero emission…
Yesterday in the first part of our two part series, John Sheridan identified Australia’s major economic and especially productivity issues. Today he looks at where Australia should focus, and what it means for single businesses. The productivity issue is a minefield at a national and economic level, but for single businesses it is an easier…
Funding worth $15.9 million has been announced by federal industry and science minister Ed Husic for round four of Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship (WiSE) grants. The grants provide between $500,000 and $1 million each towards expanding “successful projects that have increased awareness of STEM education and improved opportunities for girls or women” related to…
CRC round 24 applications open Applications for funding under round 24 of the Cooperative Research Centres program were opened on Friday, supporting industry-led collaborative research centres of up to 10 years’ duration. Applications can be made by all industry sectors and research disciplines under the program, which has been running since 1990, with applicants at…
Brisbane medtech manufacturer Anteris Technologies has announced positive 12-month results from the first-in Human (FIH) study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its DurAVR aortic valve replacement device (pictured) in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. DurAVR is a new class of aortic valve that utilises the company’s patented ADAPT anti-calcification process and…
The University of Southern Queensland-led Innovative Launch, Automation, Novel Materials, Communications and Hypersonics (iLAuNCH) Hub has announced leadership team appointments in the roles of COO, CTO and Executive Director. iLAuNCH was supported under the former Coalition federal government’s $362.5 million Trailblazer Universities initiative, with $50 million in federal funding announced in May before the election.…
A project between Geoinventions Consulting Services and Griffith University has yielded a multi-function connected sensor for geotechnical monitoring, which has been patented ahead of production on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The new product “revolutionise traditional geotechnical monitoring,” said David Chuter, Managing Director of the Innovative Manufacturing CRC, which sponsored the collaborative project through its activate program.…
New-York-based Recharge Industries is to build a lithium-ion battery gigafactory in Geelong, Victoria to generate up to 30 gigawatt hours of storage capacity. The company announced that it had engaged advisers Accenture as its engineering provider to move forward on building what it envisages as one of the world’s largest gigafactories. At full capacity, the…
Privately owned Queensland defence contractor NIOA has entered US military manufacturing with the 100 per cent acquisition of the Tennessee rifle design and manufacturing company, Barrett Firearms. The purchase price was not revealed. Revealing the company-changing move, NIOA Group CEO Robert Nioa (pictured) said the two family-owned companies came together out of a shared commitment…