Thales Australia has welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy of a $160 million contract to build new Bushmaster Protected Vehicles (pictured) for the Australian Army. The contract for the new Bushmasters was signed at Thales Australia’s Bendigo facility today in the presence of Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters who…
Gilmour Space Technologies today welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to their Gold Coast factory to formally unveil and ‘launch’ the Eris rocket – Australia’s first home-grown orbital launch vehicle. Albanese said: “This is a great Australian success story. “A company that began eight years ago but now employs 200 people here at the cutting edge…
Deakin University and PPK Group’s White Graphene subsidiary has secured up to $100,000 in funding to investigate space and aerospace uses for white graphene, which is a unique material made up of sheets of boron nitride. White Graphene won Boeing’s Sustainability in Space Pitch Competition against competition from five young startups at a recent event…
Australian manufacturers expect to increase production volumes in the next 12 months, supported by higher capital expenditure and investment in technology, a new CommBank report shows. The new 2023 CommBank Manufacturing Insights Report reveals that 72 per cent of manufacturers in Australia expect to increase production levels in the next 12 months, while the same…
You may have noticed changes being rolled out on the look and feel of @AuManufacturing. Welcome to our new look – our first refresh of the look of the news website of the Australian Manufacturing Forum Linkedin discussion and networking group since our founding five years ago. The home page is most changed, with a…
Vast Solar has executed a letter of intent (LOI) with German energy company Mabanaft GmbH & Co. KG for potential offtake and equity investment in Solar Methanol 1 (SM1), Vast’s world-first green methanol demonstration plant. Vast is a concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) technology and project developer, which boasts technology to generate green, dispatchable utility-scale…
The Western Australian government has approved and allocated land for the construction of Hexagon Energy Materials planned WAH2 ‘low-emissions’ ammonia project aimed at exports to Asia. The 40 hectare site is in Hexagon’s preferred location at the Maitland Strategic Industrial Area – 2,500ha of land that is strategically located to promote and facilitate the processing…
Rare earths and metals producer Australian Strategic Materials has announced a strategic partnership with US based rare earth magnet manufacturer Noveon Magnetics Inc. ASM, which is developing the Dubbo rare earths project in NSW, will supply Noveon with neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) alloy needed to make permanent magnets from ASM’s Korean Metals Plant (KMP). Ores…
Poker machine manufacturer and online gaming developer Aristocrat Leisure is planning a massive $1.5 billion purchase of sports betting, online gaming and lottery operator NeoGames. The company said it planned to purchase 100 percent of the Israeli company which is listed on the US NASDAQ exchange to deliver on its real money gambling (RMG) ambitions.…
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has revealed details of a new Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Act which will slash red tape and streamline processes for the approval of green hydrogen projects. Speaking to the World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam he said there were currently a number of acts covering renewable energy projects, including the Electricity…