Personal care product manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Australia says a new packaging approach is delivering promising early results, and could see 15 tonnes of plastic removed annually from supply chains nationally. According to a statement from K-CA on Monday, the trial with with supermarket chain Woolworths began in mid-September, following “over a year in development and testing”.…
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Bioengineering firm ByoMax has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Green Steel WA to supply ByoCoke made from waste biomass as a sustainable replacement for coal and coke at the company’s Collie, Western Australia green steel plant. Green Steel WA is developing an electric arc furnace to recycle scrap and the state’s first…
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The federal government has scheduled to introduce the Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2024 to Parliament today, with its focus the global net zero transformation. The legislation implements the government’s production tax incentives for renewable hydrogen and critical minerals, and also expand the role of Indigenous Business Australia. The…
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Fertiliser maker PlasmaLeap, which recently raised $2.9 million to support commercialisation of its ammonia production method, has claimed that it could save Australia’s farmers $400 million annually. In a statement on Monday, PlasmaLeap said it is trying to displace the Haber–Bosch process, which was developed early in the 1900s and remains the dominant way of…
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The federal government has down-selected two shipbuilders, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, to progress designs for Australia’s future general purpose frigates under the SEA 3000 programme. In May, Defence released an approach to market to five shipbuilders, with Defence now planning to work with the two industry partners to further develop the proposals…
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In the first profile as part of our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign, we look at a business that is borrowing from nature to build event-based vision sensors. Brent Balinski speaks to Optera Solutions founder/CEO Jonathon Wolfe. As anybody who has tried to do it will tell you, taking research breakthroughs and turning them…
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The Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic have announced the establishment of an Investor Council to help unlock more private sector capital in key areas like housing and cleaner and cheaper energy. An outcome of an Investor Roundtable on Friday, the council support better coordination of investment in national…
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What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) $60m in defence quantum technology grants announced The federal government has invested $60 million in quantum and counter disinformation technologies critical to defence and to a future made in Australia. The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies…
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The federal government has continued a run of announcements of major defence acquisitions, selecting a design by Damen Shipyards Group as the preferred option for the Australian Defence Force’s Landing Craft Heavy vessel (pictured). The announcement is a step in the establishment of a littoral fleet which is expected to create 1,100 direct jobs and…
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Altech Batteries has announced that it has progressed funding of its CERENERGY sodium-chloride solid-state battery project in Saxony, Germany, appointing key advisers to assist. The company, through its Germany subsidiary Altech Batteries GmbH, appointed a global big four professional services firm to assist in securing finance for the 120MWh CERENERGY battery manufacturing plant. The project’s…
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