Australian rare earths producer Australian Strategic Materials rolled out the Lamingtons during celebrations to open the company’s first critical metals production plant in South Korea. Located in the Ochang Foreign Investment Zone south of Seoul, the Korean Metals Plant will initially focus on supplying neodymium iron borate (NdFeB) and titanium metal alloys into Korean high…
Australia can be one of the world’s cheapest sources of green hydrogen production but faces competition from countries such as China, Chile, Morocco and Columbia according to an analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). Australian sources come in as the fifth cheapest in the world of 25 studied, driven overwhelmingly by onshore solar…
Glazing systems that generate solar power developed by ClearVue Technologies are to be trialled in an evaluation by the US Air Force in the United States. The Perth company has joined with US company Nordis in an evaluation underway at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. The companies have combined Nordis’ electronically controlled window tinting…
The South Australian government has moved on its promised construction of the country’s first green hydrogen powered electricity generation station, part of its Hydrogen Jobs Plan promised before the recent state election. Premier Peter Malinauskas announced the opening of a Hydrogen Jobs Plan Market Sounding and the introduction of legislation on hydrogen production, storage and…
Lockheed Martin Australia has successfully redeployed close to all the 240-strong Future Submarine Program Combat System Integration workforce that were working on the now-abandoned French Attack class submarine programme. LMA this morning said 95 per cent of the staff were redeployed within the company, 92 percent on internal roles on key Australian Defence Force programmes…
Our Celebrating Australian Made editorial series continues today with a profile of one company that has seen the rise, and at least partial retreat of globalisation and offshoring – Australia’s largest electronics manufacturer GPC Electronics. By Peter Roberts. There have been a number of tentative renaissances of Australian manufacturing since protectionism was withdrawn and the…
The Australian Space Agency has awarded Valiant Space a $750,000 grant as part of the Australian government’s Moon to Mars Initiative. The $1 million Supply Chain project will see Valiant Space upscale and deliver its non-toxic satellite propulsion technologies to domestic and international customers by helping overcome barriers to market entry. The one-year project will…
Australian Dairy Nutritionals Group has successfully produced milk powder at the group’s new infant formula plant at Camperdown in Victoria. The company told investors its next steps in what it called a cornertsone project were to refine the operational parameters of the plant and the resultant powders, as well as conduct trials on infant formula…
Helping launch our second Celebrating Australian Made editorial series, today we get another look into Australia’s biggest manufacturing project underway at the Osborne naval shipyard in Adelaide. Here we show the latest video of prototype production underway for the Hunter class frigate build. There is no bigger manufacturing project underway in Australia than BAE Systems…
Infant formula manufacturer Bubs Australia has stepped in to supply 1.25 million cans of infant formula to the United States in a development even hailed by US President Biden. The company, which is an experienced exporter throughout Asia and China through daigou and e-commerce channels, has increased production at its Dandenong, Victoria plant to supply…