Continuing @AuManufacturing’s expert series looking forward from the Jobs and Skills Summit, Jeff Lang looks at Australian sustainable advanced technologies and how they could contribute to a decarbonised sovereign economy. With the new global economic reset manifesting as disrupted supply chains, geopolitical risk, world division of labour and climate change dystopia, Australia has had its…
Defence, space and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has given itself breathing space for restructuring announcing a financing agreement with major shareholder Washington H. Soul Pattinson. The Canberra company has been under pressure in recent months with leadership transitions, a heavy call on investment dollars and a fall in its share price. Now investment house…
Global engineering, technology and manufacturing businesses based out of the Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide are among those broadening their reach across the Pacific and opening offices in cities across the United States. XFrame managing director Carsten Dethlefsen said they launched in the US last year at NeoCon in Chicago, one of the country’s largest…
Printable electronics developer Australian Advanced Materials, a company owned by investment house Strategic Elements, has reported ‘rapid technological progress’ in manufacturing a printed device generating electricity from moisture in the air (pictured). AAM, working in partnership with the University of New South Wales, CSIRO and researcher VTT group in Finland has developed and tested a…
Food company SPC Global has called in the lawyers over its negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) involving the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). The company, a key employer in the Shepparton area in Victoria, said the company after working closely with the AMWU for several months had been ‘forced’ to engage with…
Lithium ion battery recycler Envirostream has won a contract from Korean-owned LG ENERGY Solutions (LGES) to process its spent residential and grid-scale lithium-ion batteries at its Victorian plant. Envirostream, a subsidiary of Lithium Australia, will process a minimum of 250 tonnes of LG batteries a year, equal to about 5,000 batteries and about 25 per…
Australian and Indian space industry companies are looking to greater opportunities through collaborating following our participation in this year’s Bengaluru Space Expo held in the technology-intensive city formerly known as Bangalore. Australia was the partner country in this year’s expo, with companies signing six new industry-to-industry memorandums for collaboration, with the aim to boost commercial…
Today as part of @AuManufacturing’s series looking forward from the Jobs and Skills Summit, Mark Leith proposes a radical re-think of Australia’s procurement practices. If Australia is to meet its revised 2030 emissions reduction targets, early action to accelerate zero emission bus and truck adoption is essential. While the business case for fleet electrification and…
By Peter Roberts It is understandable for a party like One Nation to be advocating a policy as dumb as its Project Iron Boomerang steelmaking plan for Australia, but it is dumber for the Senate to vote to support it as well. But that is what the Senate has done passing a motion establishing an…
EOS appoints new CFO Australian space and defence company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO), Clive Cuthell. Cuthell will work from EOS’s Canberra head office and report directly to CEO Dr Andreas Schwer. His career includes over 15 years in a CFO role at a variety of ASX-listed and…