Michigan, US-based medtech company Stryker has officially opened a new R&D lab in Brisbane’s Herston Health Precinct. The lab was announced in October last year, and follows a five-year, $18 million partnership between the Fortune 500 company and various Australian partners on additively manufactured just-in-time patient-specific bone tumour implants (pictured.) “Stryker’s project with IMCRC demonstrated…
Three of Korea’s largest conglomerate groups have joined together to establish a green hydrogen production supply chain to export more than one million tonnes of green ammonia per annum from Australia to Korea by 2032. Korea Zinc, Hanwha Impact and SK Gas, and Australian Korea Zinc subsidiary Ark Energy have formed the Hanguk-Hoju (Korea-Australia) Hydrogen…
Fast electric vehicle charger manufacturer Tritium has announced $200 million in sales in a single year marked by heavy investment, including in a new factory in Lebanon, Tennessee (pictured) which is now in operation. The Brisbane company revealed orders of $203 million and a production backlog of $149 million as part of its full year…
New shallow water vessels for NSW Police The NSW police force (NSWPF) has called for expressions of interest for the design and construction of class 8 hulled vessels which can be used in waters such as shallow waters or inland waterways. The vessels will be used for general marine policing in times of flood assistance,…
The Australian Missile Corporation has been formally engaged by the Defence Department as one of the inaugural Enterprise Partners for Australia’s planned Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) Enterprise. AMC is owned by Australian-owned defence manufacturer NIOA to facilitate collaboration between industry, academia, state governments and defence in response to an announcement that $1 billion…
Metals company Rio Tinto and steel producer Shougang Group are to research and implement low-carbon solutions for the steel value chain, aiming to cut steelmaking’s carbon intensity. They have signed a MoU which is focused on areas include low-carbon sintering technology, blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) optimisation, and carbon capture and utilisation…
