BAE Systems Australia has launched a national STEM outreach program that aims to inspire Year 4-6 students by giving them access to leading edge technologies in partnership with specialist Australian education technology company, Lumination. Named ‘Beacon’, the program will initially involve 15 schools in South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia and grow in…
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Eden Brew is roughly 18 months old and commercialising CSIRO R&D on precision fermentation for animal-free milk, which it says has a “four-casein micelle” identical to dairy milk. It recently announced it raised $US 5 million to support commercialisation, and is preparing to launch ice cream from this in time for summer next year. We…
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Novel recycled wine bottle launched Leading wine brands have launched ranges of wine products in a new, 100 percent recycled PET plastic bottle produced by packaging company Packamama (pictured). Taylors Wines and the giant Accolade Group are among brands launching the eco friendly bottles at Coles Group liquor stores – Liquor Land and First Choice…
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@AuManufacturing’s social media discussion and networking group, the Australian Manufacturing Forum on Linkedin, has passed an important membership milestone. The Forum, Australia’s largest professional social media group of Australian manufacturers, passed 11,006 members this morning with the admission of 10 new members. The Forum has grown steadily since its founding in 2013, and 18 months…
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Lighting manufacturer Pierlite has acquired the SenseAgent smart building technology portfolio from Brisbane industrial IoT developer Levaux for an undisclosed sum. Pierlite made the purchase together with parent company Signify to bolster the group’s Interact smart IoT ecosystem offering. SenseAgent is a smart building platform that promises to give owners and occupiers of buildings fine-grained…
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Robotic integration companies Aerobotix and Automated Solutions Australia (ASA) today announced an international robotic automation partnership for the development, testing and manufacturing of hypersonic missiles. The partnership follows the 2021 signing of the AUKUS security pact between the US, UK and Australia which includes provisions for the allies to work together on hypersonic and counter-hypersonic…
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Additive manufacturing technology company Titomic and production line builder Repkon Machine and Tool Industry and Trade Inc. have signed a formal joint venture to establish a gun barrel manufacturing facility. However disappointingly, the facility will not be built in Australia as originally announced. When first revealed in @AuManufacturing a year ago, the hybrid additive manufacturing,…
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FormFlow, Deakin University and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC have shared results of a collaborative research partnership, which they say has yielded commercially useful technologies for the metal forming sector. The team originally announced a 12-month project backed by IMCRC’s activate program in January last year, targeting development of a “an Industry 4.0 enabled manufacturing cell”…
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Recycling clothing isn’t like recycling paper, glass or metal. Clothes are endlessly variable and unpredictable. So they’re not ideal for recycling technologies, which require a steady and consistent source material. Even a seemingly simple garment may contain multiple materials, with fibre blends such as cotton/polyester and cotton/elastane being common.
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A team from UNSW Sydney has successfully simulated the behaviour of an organic molecule using a quantum circuit, an achievement they say is two years ahead of schedule and likely to lead to a commercial result in five years. The team’s results, achieved in 2021, were published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature on Thursday.…
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