Tasmanian manufacturers awarded $865,000 in grants
Twelve Tasmanian businesses have been awarded a total of $865,000 under the state government’s Advanced Manufacturing Accelerating Growth Grants program.
Gilmour unveils its third-stage rocket engine, Phoenix (VIDEO)
Gilmour Space announced its new rocket engine, Phoenix, on Tuesday morning, as well as news that it had recently put the liquid-fuelled third-stage engine through a successful 190-second mission duty cycle test firing.
Packaging, process and progress: Unlocking new possibilities with your data
In day two of our Packaging, process and progress series, Alex McClung argues that a combination of data-infrastructure, robotic-infrastructure, and existing plant-infrastructure should be unified to enhance the capabilities of Australian manufacturing.
Tekt Industries funded to support semiconductor supply chain
Product development, manufacturing and commercialisation specialist Tekt Industries has won a federal government Supply Chain Resilience Grant to improve local support for the semiconductor and printed circuit board sectors. The grant supports an investment in over $1.4 million in new equipment at the company’s Abbotsford, Melbourne facility, including 100 nanometre level high resolution X-Ray inspection…
Business involvement to the fore in new Trailblazer programme
While the university sector has dominated news of those to benefit from the federal government’s Trailblazer Universities Program, industry involvement is becoming increasingly obvious and transformational. iLAUNCH hub, involving the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), the Australian National University (ANU) and UniSA, has now revealed details of industry research partnerships to be funded under the…
Wrightbus and Volgren to produce hydrogen-electric buses
Australia’s largest bus body manufacturer Volgren has signed a technology deal to bring the UK’s Wrightbus’s hydrogen fuel cell powertrain to Australia. The two companies will manufacture two zero-emission hydrogen single deck buses which will be the first European-Australian hydrogen combination in the country. They hope the vehicles will demonstrative an alternative to battery electric…