Trajan to acquire US lab consumables business
Trajan Scientific and Medical has announced it will acquire Kentucky-based analytical consumables business Chromatography Research Supplies for $US 43.3 million ($AUD 61.9 million.)
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Austal wins $300m in new orders, begins steel shipbuilding in the US
Perth international shipbuilder Austal has announced signing of $300 million in new contracts as well as a big step forward for the company with the commencement of steel shipbuilding in the United States. CEO Paddy Gregg told investors that in recent weeks the company has been awarded contracts to: Sustain two Cape class patrol boats…
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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed
Magnesium refinery plan for Collie Perth’s South West Development Commission has progressed a bid to establish a ‘game-changing carbon neutral magnesium refinery’ at the coal mining city of Collie in Western Australia. With the nearby state-owned Muja and Collie power stations to be retired in response to massive uptake of renewables, a pre-feasibility study has…
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Australian M113’s join Bushmasters in Ukraine
The first four M113AS4 Armoured Personnel Carriers being gifted to Ukraine departed RAAF Base Amberley last week where they will join other Australian equipment including Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles. Loaded into a Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 aircraft, the four vehicles are the first of 14 M113AS4s to be provided by Australia as part of a $284…
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ANSTO industry partnership furthers lithium industry
ANSTO nuclear scientists and Lithium Australia Limited have developed a novel technology to extract more lithium from lithium mining waste, in a development said to be a game-changer for Australian’s lithium industry. Lithium demand is being driven by the lithium-ion battery market with Australia supplying 60 per cent of the world’s lithium in the form…
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Want a solution for the energy crisis gripping Australia’s east? Look west
By Tina Soliman Hunter, Macquarie University and Madeline Taylor, Macquarie University You can thank Margaret Thatcher for the gas supply crunch Australia’s east coast has been plunged into. As UK prime minister, Thatcher led the charge to kick the government out of the economy and allow the market to rule. In Australia, governments took up…
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Genetic Technologies validates breast cancer risk test
Genetic Technologies (GTG), a Melbourne company whose technology predicts the likelihood of serious disease, has received validation of the benefits of its gene Type Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Test. The company, a leader in geonomics-based tests, announced the completion of a customisable Budget Impact Model (Bim) which ‘demonstrates significant health and economic benefits directly attributed…
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Work begins on new deep space antenna in WA
Construction has begun on a new deep space antenna at New Norcia, Western Australia, as part of a multi-million dollar collaboration between the Australian Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The agencies will work together to expand the New Norcia deep space tracking station (pictured), located about 130 kilometres north-east of Perth. The…
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Silicon Aurora returns as an energy showcase
The giant Silicon Aurora renewable energy park planned for the upper Spencer Gulf area of South Australia may yet live to emerge as a showcase of cutting edge Australian solar generation and energy storage technologies. The delayed, then sold off, then cut in size and scope project to a Stage 1, 140MW battery project got…
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Qld government announces additional $35.5 million to now “fully funded” translational manufacturing facility
The Queensland government has announced a further $35.5 million in funding for the $80 million Translational Manufacturing facility, citing the need to commercialise more medical breakthroughs and strengthen sovereign manufacturing.
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