EDITORIAL – by the editors, @AuManufacturing news There is a lot of concern in the community about the declining quality of the media in Australia, but what is being seen in the reporting of national affairs is nothing compared to what has happened to specialist press such as industry news. Hardly a week goes by…
The hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will bring some good by forcing companies to re-engineer supply chains from overseas to local sources is real, according to electronics manufacturer and assembler Circuitwise Electronics Manufacturing. While local manufacturers turned to the half dozen large Australian printed circuit board makers at the height of pandemic disruption, the first…
Bundaberg bioHub gets underway A bioHub industrial development in Bundaberg, Queensland is bringing new life to a former wastewater treatment plant. A Bundaberg Regional Council water laboratory and a Utilitas biorefining centre are on site. Utilitas said its ‘unique delivery model includes integrating advanced anaerobic digestion (AD) as a platform for biomanufacturing’. Biogas will be…
Ten SMEs have joined defence prime Raytheon Australia to bid to provide a sovereign Australian Industry Capability (AIC) to the army in the LAND 129 Phase 3 tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) project. Raytheon’s solution features a rotary wing UAS and may be based on Schiebel Pacific Limited’s CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (pictured). The team, which…
The Prime Minister Scott Morrison toured the Osborne naval shipyard on Saturday as defence business BAE Systems Australia was given the formal go-ahead to begin prototyping work on Australia’s new Hunter class frigates. BAE Systems’ subsidiary ASC Shipbuilding is in the process of taking over the expanded shipyard on the Port River in Adelaide where…
The Australian developed and built Thales Hawkei armoured patrol vehicle has been shortlisted with five others to supply the armed forces of Poland, according to media reports. The seven-tonne vehicle, manufactured in Bendigo, has been marketed overseas by the company’s French parent with the potential for a sale of 700 vehicles to Poland the biggest…
A total of 373,000 industrial robots were sold in 2019, according to newly-released figures, with two-thirds of all new units sold in the Asia region.
Thirty-five students studying at two universities have been awarded National Naval Shipbuilding Pipeline Scholarship, helping to strengthen the pool of future engineering talent available for Australia’s shipbuilding programmes. Twenty students from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and 15 students from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) were officially welcomed into the scholarship programme today…
Additive Manufacturing technology company AML3D has received a purchase order from Perth-based international shipbuilder Austal to produce a prototype Davit arm lifting device for mounting on its ships. The contract follows a MOU signed by Austal and AML3D as as reported by @AuManufacturing news. AML3D has now completed the design and optimisation phase of the…
A new report has significantly downgraded expansion in the global market for carbon fibre-reinforced polymers versus 2017 predictions, with the biggest change in the aerospace sector.
