South Australia’s big battery to become 50 per cent bigger
Renewable energy company Neoen is expanding its 100MW/129MWh Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, strengthening its position as the largest utility scale battery in the world.
Renewable energy company Neoen is expanding its 100MW/129MWh Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, strengthening its position as the largest utility scale battery in the world.
Australian dairy producer Bega Cheese (ASX: BGA) is in Victoria’s Supreme Court fighting a dispute over the use of its brand names with NZ dairy co-operative Fonterra. According to a report in abc.net.au, Bega and Fonterra are at loggerheads over a 2002 branding rights deal which gave Fonterra rights to the Bega Cheese brand. Bega…
University of Wollongong researchers have created a new material that could lead to better performance in next-generation, large-scale batteries. The team – led by chief investigators Dr Yunxiao Wang and Associate Professor Shulei Chou from UOW’s Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials – had their research published in Nature Communications and featured in the journal’s…
Ticketing business TMA Group launched a new manufacturing, design and logistics centre in Melbourne’s west on Monday, which it says will employ 100 by 2022.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer and clinical trials group IDT Australia (ASX: IDT) is confident of better times ahead following a flat 2019 which saw revenue down on the previous year. The company, which manufactures pharmaceutical active ingredient and consumer dosage products, as well as conducting clinical trials, has recovered from an adverse situation with the US FDA…
Queensland engineering firm CQMS Razer has welcomed families, customers and the local business community to celebrate its 40th anniversary with an open day at their foundry facilities in Maryborough, Central Queensland. CQMS Razer delivers world-class engineering, manufacturing, and digital solutions to the mining industry. In four decares of service the company has grown to more…
Technology that brings WiFi to farms in mobile blackspots and smart ear tags which improve traceability of livestock are among a series of projects to receive support in the latest round of Accelerating Commercialisation grants. Industry minister Karen Andrews said seven businesses will share in $2.8 million. She said: “These latest recipients of grants have…
Bionic ear manufacturer Cochlear (ASX: COH) has received FDA clearance to market its Osia 2 bone implant in the US for those older than 12 years of age with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss and single-sided sensorineural deafness. Unlike its traditional implant which stimulates the cochlea with electrical signals, the Osia is an implant…
The University of Southern Queensland has announced its Centre for Future Materials will receive a dual-ring 84/60 carrier braider from South Korea’s Textile for Life, enabling the production of advanced composite structures.
Trajan has been developing a world-first blood sampling device for several years. Brent Balinski spoke to company founder and chairman Stephen Tomisich about the hemaPEN – which is about to gain registration here and overseas – and where Australian companies can be competitive.