The hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will bring some good by forcing companies to re-engineer supply chains from overseas to local sources is real, according to electronics manufacturer and assembler Circuitwise Electronics Manufacturing. While local manufacturers turned to the half dozen large Australian printed circuit board makers at the height of pandemic disruption, the first…
Bundaberg bioHub gets underway A bioHub industrial development in Bundaberg, Queensland is bringing new life to a former wastewater treatment plant. A Bundaberg Regional Council water laboratory and a Utilitas biorefining centre are on site. Utilitas said its ‘unique delivery model includes integrating advanced anaerobic digestion (AD) as a platform for biomanufacturing’. Biogas will be…
Ten SMEs have joined defence prime Raytheon Australia to bid to provide a sovereign Australian Industry Capability (AIC) to the army in the LAND 129 Phase 3 tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) project. Raytheon’s solution features a rotary wing UAS and may be based on Schiebel Pacific Limited’s CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (pictured). The team, which…
The Prime Minister Scott Morrison toured the Osborne naval shipyard on Saturday as defence business BAE Systems Australia was given the formal go-ahead to begin prototyping work on Australia’s new Hunter class frigates. BAE Systems’ subsidiary ASC Shipbuilding is in the process of taking over the expanded shipyard on the Port River in Adelaide where…
The Australian developed and built Thales Hawkei armoured patrol vehicle has been shortlisted with five others to supply the armed forces of Poland, according to media reports. The seven-tonne vehicle, manufactured in Bendigo, has been marketed overseas by the company’s French parent with the potential for a sale of 700 vehicles to Poland the biggest…
Thirty-five students studying at two universities have been awarded National Naval Shipbuilding Pipeline Scholarship, helping to strengthen the pool of future engineering talent available for Australia’s shipbuilding programmes. Twenty students from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and 15 students from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) were officially welcomed into the scholarship programme today…
Additive Manufacturing technology company AML3D has received a purchase order from Perth-based international shipbuilder Austal to produce a prototype Davit arm lifting device for mounting on its ships. The contract follows a MOU signed by Austal and AML3D as as reported by @AuManufacturing news. AML3D has now completed the design and optimisation phase of the…
Walmart China has revised its sales forecasts upwards for the products it is supplied by trans-Tasman dairy producer Keytone Dairy Corporation. With China sales running 50 pert cent of previous expectations, Walmart has now forecast sales for calendar 2021 of $6.8 million of whole and skim milk powder for Walmart’s Sam’s Club West. This is…
Modular data centre manufacturer DXN has signed an agreement to supply its fully engineered factory built centres for up to 15 farm sites across Australia. The first purchase order from Connected Farms is worth under $1 million and will go to two sites in Queensland and New South Wales. The remainder will be rolled out…
The federal government has announced billions in spending on upgrading the National Broadband Network. Here Laurie Patton asks whether the NBN is a rooster or a feather duster. NBN Co will now spend $3.5 billion replacing inferior connections with the fibre they should have had from the beginning. Of course in all likelihood this will…