Bid to build Aussie Space Radar announced
Ampcontrol and LeoLabs Australia have announced a consortium that aims to build surveillance radars “to catapult Australia into a space surveillance superpower.”
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We need fast freight rail, fast
High Speed Freight Rail (HSFR) can help to transform Australia and to build our strengths and resilience. We need a strategy.
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Definium Technologies expands to build Coates IoT devices
Invermay, Tasmania IoT device company Definium Technologies has completed shipment of its largest-ever device order to leading equipment hire company Coates. The order more than doubled staff numbers at the company and involved the installation and upgrading of surface mount technology and machinery, according to CEO Mike Cruse. Cruse said Coates engaged Definium to design…
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R&D tax incentive is ‘counterintuitive to innovation’
By Joseph Brookes The government’s research and development tax incentive is “counterintuitive” to innovation because it fails to focus work into Australia’s areas of strength and provides support only after the work is completed, according Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre head Dr Jens Goennemann. Speaking at a Capability event this week organised by InnovationAus, Dr Goennemann…
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Uni Qld buys AML3D 3D printing system
The University of Queensland has purchased an Arcemy metal additive manufacturing system from AML3D. The $400,000 3D printing unit will be used across a range of existing and new initiatives at UQ. The Arcemy unit destined for Brisbane is a wire additive manufacturing (WAM) machine that can 3D print across a variety of metal alloys…
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FBICRC backs $18M Perth battery cathode precursor pilot plant
The Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) has today announced it has signed contracts with a consortium of 19 leading local, national and international companies, the WA Government, contractors and academic institutions to design and commission a Cathode Precursor Production Pilot Plant in Western Australia. The pilot plant project is an important step in…
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Quickstep signs $1.5 m deal to manufacture for drone delivery company
Composites specialist Quickstep Holdings has announced a manufacturing partnership with UAV logistics company Swoop Aero and a stake in Swoop’s parent company, Kookaburra Aerospace. Quickstep said in a statement that a contract with an initial order value of $1.5 million would see them provide engineering and manufacturing services, as well as an initial production run…
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Whyalla GREENSTEEL plant could be Morrison’s Cop26 get out of jail card – exclusive
By Peter Roberts The refinancing of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance two weeks ago has kick started work on plans for a massive, world-scale GREENSTEEL investment by the company which would transform its Australian operations centred on the Whyalla steelworks on upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia. @AuManufacturing understands negotiations have been underway in recent days…
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Four more businesses join maiden Australian commercial orbital launch
Four more startups have signed up to be on the first commercial orbital rocket launch from Australia, scheduled for next year, aboard Space Machines Company’s Optimus-1 craft.
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$7.1 billion for new trains the first Olympics-related “local procurement” announcement: Qld govt
The Queensland government has announced it will spend $7.1 billion on 65 new trains to be built near Maryborough, calling it the first “local procurement” announcement related to the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. The trains would be built at Torbanlea, north-west of Maryborough, and add 800 new jobs in the Wide Bay-Burnett region, according to the…
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