UNSW, electric bus maker to begin sustainable transport collaboration
The University of NSW and Dutch electric bus company Ebusco have signed a memorandum of understanding.
Woolworths reshores nappie production to Sydney
Supermarket chain Woolworths has announced that manufacturing of its own brand nappies, Little One’s, will be reshored to Australia. Little One’s Newborn, Infant, and Junior sizes are already manufactured in Australia, with locally made crawler, walker and toddler sizes to be progressively introduced into Woolworths supermarkets over the coming months. Ontex Australia will produce more…
RMIT, Siemens and Festo announce partnership on Industrial Digital Innovation Hub
RMIT, Siemens and Festo have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on workforce transformation topics and establish an Industrial Transformation Hub at RMIT’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct in Carlton.
CSL pays $655 million for potential haemophilia treatment
Australians are used to seeing overseas pharmaceutical companies paying huge sums for locally-developed drugs, only to see the benefits of commercialisation realised outside the country. Now biotechnology giant CSL has reversed the trend, paying a massive $655 million (US$450 million) to buy a new drug candidate from an American company which it will commercialise, and…
Technologies and tools for a manufacturing transformation: new materials by Michael Grogan
New materials and better products regularly go together. In this part of @AuManufacturing’s “technologies and tools” series, Michael Grogan looks at some standout local adopters.
Gold Coast company in successful 45-second rocket engine test fire [VIDEO]
Gilmour Space has successfully completed a “hot fire” 45-second test of its upper-stage hybrid rocket engine. Gilmour made the announcement on Thursday morning, calling it the longest and most efficient test fire for the company so far. “It’s a key demonstration of our ability to produce repeatable, stable, and high-performance combustion over a…
K-TIG emerges as new Australian industrial technology success
Analysis by Peter Roberts One of the features of new methods of production that are emerging as part of the industry 4.0 revolution is the fact that Australian industrial machine manufacturers are coming to the fore. @AuManufacturing has reported on the several companies that are making innovative 3D printing industrial machines locally from SPEE3D to…
CSR questions sustainability of its investment in Tomago Aluminium
Building products group CSR has expressed doubts over the viability long term of its investment in Tomago aluminium because of Australia’s high energy prices. CSR chairman John Gillman told the company’s annual general meeting that the company’s investment in the Tomago aluminium smelter in New South Wales had performed well, bolstered by benefits from hedging.…
Naval ship infrastructure steps up in the west
The Western Australian government has released a draft strategic infrastructure and land use plan to guide the development of its naval shipbuilding and marine engineering precinct at Henderson south of Perth. The Australian Marine Complex Draft Strategic Infrastructure and Land Use Plan envisages the freeing up of new waterside land and the creation of new…