Canberra’s Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has been awarded a $94 million contract to supply 251 Remote Weapon Stations to equip the army’s Bushmaster and Hawkei armoured vehicles. Delivery, which will run from December this year for a year, is part of a weapons standardisation project and will provide increased lethality to the army’s protected mobility…
Applications are now open for NSW government grants to assist companies in PPE production.
Water and wastewater treatment company De.mem has won its first-ever order for a membrane water purification system from the electric power generation sector. The $400,000 order will see the Australian and Singaporean company deliver equipment for the generation of pure de-ionised water required for the power generation process. CEO Andreas Kroell said: “This new contract…
Australia has become the fourth country to ratify the Square Kilometre Array Observatory Convention, with the construction phase of the local component of the world’s largest radio telescope scheduled for mid-2021.
Load testing has finished and a bridge made out of fibre-reinforced geopolymer in Geelong is expected to be operational in the first quarter of next year.
A South Australian-based V2X technology company has today begun a connected vehicle trial in Queensland which will help explore the future of co-operative intelligent transport systems.
Graphite miner and processor EcoGraf has signed options to lease land in the Rockingham Strategic Industrial Area south of Perth for the construction of a $98 million graphite processing plant. The plant will be the first outside China to produce plus 99.95 per cent pure spherical graphite which is used to produce the anodes for…
Comment by Peter Roberts The sooner Australia takes real action to move towards an electric vehicle future, the better. This is clear now with two pieces of news – the UK will ban diesel and petrol cars from 2030, and the revelation of the lie we are living clinging onto fossil fuelled vehicles. While Australia’s…
Kerry Stokes Seven Group Holdings has tightened its grip on ailing building products group Boral, and may in effect already control the company. Boral announced major changes to its board with four new members, two of whom were nominated by seven, which now holds 19.9 per cent of the business. Ryan Stokes and Richard Richards’…
Additive manufacturing specialist AML3D has shipped a stainless steel marine propeller to 3D Printing Corporation, a Japanese based 3D printing consultancy firm. The 316L propeller (pictured) will be made available to 3DPC’s marine clients as a ‘showpiece’ to demonstrate the advantages of AML3D’s Wire Arc Manufacturing (“WAM®”) technology over the traditional casting methods. The company…
