A new supercomputer has been officially launched at Defence Science and Technology Group’s Edinburgh, South Australia site. According to acting prime minister and minister of defence Richard Marles, the state-of-the-art investment was “up to a million times faster than a standard computer” and will enable the crunching of large data sets to address some of…
AGL Energy and Fortescue Future Industries have expanded their green hydrogen feasibility study to explore the development of a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility at AGL’s Hunter Energy Hub. Technical consultancy GHD Advisory is carrying out the feasibility study for AGL as the hub provider and Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) as the exclusive producer…
Sleep apnoea technology manufacturer ResMed has seen its revenues surge 12 percent to $5.07 billion (US$3.6 billion) and operating profit rise four percent in the latest full year following a quarter that saw steady growth in all its markets. In the latest, fourth quarter the San Diego-based company grew revenue four percent to $1.29 billion,…
Environmental Clean Technologies has released a video tour (below) showing progress in construction of its brown coal syngas into hydrogen and low emission electricity demonstration project at its site at Bacchus Marsh,Victoria. ECT experienced ‘tremendous supply chain disruption and labour market constraints’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, however the project team recently delivered a successful wet…
In episode nine of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski, we speak to Dr Jens Goennemann, Managing Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre. Goennemann tells us about Australia’s slide downwards in the latest Economic Complexity Index rankings, compiled by Harvard’s Growth Lab and released a couple of weeks ago. Economic complexity measures the sophistication and diversity…
Industry super fund is first to divest from oil and gas Industry super fund NGS Super has has become the first industry fund to totally divest from its investments in fossil fuel energy companies. Education and Aged Care sector fund NGS Super sold its holdings in oil and gas companies, worth $191 million as it…
Queensland left hand drive vehicle conversion company AUSEV has signed a purchase order for one stripped electric vehicle chassis from US manufacturer Xos Inc. The company, which has plans to add EV production to its current vehicle conversion business, said in a statement it had ‘started conversations on working towards a manufacturing and distribution partnership…
The completion rate for apprentices and trainees who commenced training in 2017 decreased to 55.7 percent, down by 1.2 percentage points from those commencing in 2016, according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Completion and attrition rates for apprentices and trainees 2021 reports on the completion rates for…
