Wind turbine components are being manufactured and wind turbines assembled in Australia for the first time in a decade at the Vestas Renewable Energy Hub (VREH) in Geelong. The hub, a venture between Danish energy company Vestas and Australian engineering company Marand, has assembled and tested 44 turbine hubs and 36 drive trains, according to…
Naval Group has signed nine different Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Australian SMEs to manufacture its Canto anti-torpedo decoy system. Already in service with the French navy, Canto is being proposed as a torpedo-defence system for the Royal Australian Navy. Canto decoys generate high-level acoustic signals covering the full frequency range of an attacking torpedo,…
Iconic bootmaker Rossi Boots Australia, one of the great survivors of Australia’s textile, clothing and footwear sector, is giving itself a new lease of life under fourth-generation family owners and managers.
A new Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Future Energy Storage Technologies (StorEnergy) at Deakin University was launched on Friday.
There’s pride in dreaming up and making, says Grant Menzies of Adina Watches. Brent Balinski spoke to Menzies about not just being proud of what you do, but telling the story attached to it.
By Peter Roberts An announcement by technology group Silex Systems (ASX: SLX) that it will make silicon suitable for fabricating quantum computing chips shows the way forward for Australian involvement in this emerging manufacturing sector. Silex has entered into a R&D project with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), a spin off from the University of NSW,…
M8 Sustainable raises $19.5 million Western Australian waste management business M8 Sustainable (ASX: M8S) raised $19.5 million and listed on the stock market. The company operates a waste recycling facility and a waste to compost and energy plant. Prescient makes progress in ovarian cancer trial Prescient Therapuetics has annnounced positive results from a stage 1b…
Security and risk management group AVA Risk Group (ASX:AVA) has won additional orders for Future Fibre Technologies’ (FFT) perimeter detection systems from government clients. The Melbourne company received orders worth $630,000 for FFT’s Aura Ai-2 platform which will be installed in sensitive US Government sites. A second order worth $350,000 was for FFT’s SecureFence platform…
Agricultural technology company Bio-Gene (ASX:BGT) has reported its proprietary Flavocide insecticide is highly toxic to dangerous Malaria carrying mosquitoes. In laboratory studies Flavocide successfully killed Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes that are resistant to synthetic pyrethroids, the most commonly used insecticides since the 1970s. Anopheles gambiae potentially carry Malaria, Zika virus and Dengue fever. “The company said…
France’s Naval Group which is to build Australia’s Attack class submarines has joined with the ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC) and Airspeed Pty Ltd to explore the use of composites embedded with fibre optics. The AMAC, at the University of NSW, conducted proof of concept tests over a five day…
