French submarine builder Naval Group and the Department of Defence have responded to criticism and have issued a joint statement on Australian industry involvement in the construction of 12 Attack class submarines in Adelaide. The joint statement does not mention concerns that have been raised about the level of local participation in the project. However…
Lithium Australia and its research partners have received a Co-Operative Research Centre Projects grant to pursue their $3.6 million project developing new methods for extracting lithium from spodumene rock. Lithium will receive $1.3 million from the CRC-P to boost the recovery of lithium which can be as low as 50 per cent using conventional processing.…
Gilmour Space and University of Southern Queensland have commented on their successful CRC Project application, which will develop the capability to produce linerless composite tanks for space.
Hearing implant group Cochlear has increased its investment in a start-up business developing a device to combat obstructive sleep apnea. Apnea, a market dominated by Cochlear’s Australian rival ResMed, has attracted a number of competing devices with healthcare company Nyxoah pursuing a novel approach. The company’s device (pictured) stimulates the tongue nerve during sleep, triggering…
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Collaborative robot manufacturer Universal Robots has announced a leasing program in partnership with vendor finance company DLL.
Packaging group Orora has experienced a topsy turvy first half of the year with sales and profits moving in opposite directions. Net profits after tax were down 13.3 per cent to $76.6 million on sales that rose 13.3 per cent to $1.8 billion. The manufacturer of glass, cans and fibre packaging experienced subdued economic conditions…
Deakin University-based IoT company Strut has begun a three-month trial of its ground-based sensor products, which update farmers on soil moisture and temperature, humidity and air temperature. The company was founded by four engineers to make a simple precision agriculture offering, and went through Deakin’s three-month Spark accelerator program last year. Strut is based…
By Baohua Jia, Professor, Swinburne University of Technology Every age in the history of human civilisation has a signature material, from the Stone Age, to the Bronze and Iron Ages. We might even call today’s information-driven society the Silicon Age. Since the 1960s, silicon nanostructures, the building-blocks of microchips, have supercharged the development of electronics, communications,…
Biotechnology and vaccines group CSL has confirmed itself as Australia’s global manufacturing powerhouse with net profit after tax for the first half of the year of $1.86 (US$1.25) billion, up eleven per cent on the previous corresponding period. The half saw dramatic growth in its blood-based products, with R&D investment over more than a decade…
