Guidelines have been released for Round Two Demonstrator “Mission” program grants, part of the Moon to Mars initiative, with applications to open next year and support between $750,000 and $10 million available.
Large-scale metal additive manufacturing company Titomic has ventured into the European market, buying a cold spray technology company with products complementary to its own 3D printers. Titomic will pay $2.1 million to acquire Dycomet Europe BV, a company with turnover of $1.6 million and customers including Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Airbus, Siemens and VW. Dycomet provides…
There was a jump in manufacturing activity in November as restrictions eased, according to the Australian Industry Group, with its Performance of Manufacturing Index up 4.4 points for the month.
Sydney company Q-CTRL has raised $35 million (US$25 Million) in a Series B financing round Led by Airbus Ventures. The company, whose software and hardware reduces noise and error in nascent quantum computing systems, will use the funds to develop new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity, and magnetic fields. Airbus Ventures…
Michael Sharpe gives an update on last week’s meeting of the Nuclear Skills Forum in western Sydney. Nuclear power is banned in Australia. It seems government legislation needs reviewing in light of the rapid advancement with small modular reactors, the recent SMR funding by the UK Government, developments in the USA and the expanding AUKUS…
Today our editorial series, Leadership in factory automation, looks at the quintessential dilemma, and opportunity for Australian manufacturing – flexible mass manufacturing for the large number of product types needed to satisfy Australia’s diverse local markets. Here Peter Roberts profiles Electrolux Home Products. Electrolux Home Products single Australian factory is what Australian manufacturing has been…
In situ goal gasification developer Leigh Creek Energy has signed an offtake agreement that will allow it to proceed to finance its coal to gas to urea plant at the former Leigh Creek coal field in South Australia. The company’s executives travelled to Korea to sign a heads of agreement with Daelim which plans to…
CSIRO has launched a $12 million Collaborative Intelligence (CINTEL) Future Science Platform which aims to move beyond machines replacing people or automating their jobs, and instead to create teams that maximise the benefits of both human and machine intelligence. CSIRO said that one of CINTEL’s first projects would draw on the expertise of CSIRO’s Robotics…
