Next in @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, we include an interview with SPEE3D’s Steve Camilleri, recorded during last week’s Land Forces expo in Brisbane. SPEE3D did not set out to work with defence, a market that now makes up about half of the Australian technology company’s business, according to co-founder and CTO Steve…
Today in our special editorial series Land Forces 2022, we look at additive manufacturing technology and how it is set to bring manufacturing to the front. Here Peter Roberts profiles metal 3D printer manufacturer, SPEE3D. For electrical engineer Steven Camilleri, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of metal 3D printer manufacturer SPEE3D, the times are right…
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas is in Japan where he has signed green hydrogen co-operation agreements with a number of major companies to accelerate hydrogen export projects in the state. Following a series of high-level meetings in Tokyo on Monday, Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Marubeni, and Australia’s Santos and H2U have signed…
Australian renewable energy company Vast Solar is part of a US grouping that has received US$2.3 million from the US government to develop its concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) technology. The company is developing modular solar thermal power, utilising liquid sodium as the solar heat transfer fluid. This is being deployed in VS1 in Port…
Australian venture-backed rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies has announced UK-based electrification business Equipmake as a supplier of electric motors and inverters for the upcoming Eris rocket launch, after work on the project between the pair that began in late-2020. According to its website, Equipmake was established in 1997 by former Formula 1 engineer Ian Foley,…
Wellnex Life gets access to medicinal cannabis market Health and wellness product company Wellnex Life has gained access to the medicinal cannabis market, with its joint venture partner OneLife Botanicals acquiring medicinal cannabis producer MediPharm Australia. Wellnex hopes to enter the market by the end of 2022 and be one of the first to market…
A decarbonisation-themed mission has joined others underway at CSIRO, including drought resilience and ending plastic waste, with a launch on Tuesday of a Towards Net Zero Mission. The national science organisation said that the mission was initially allocated $90 million, and represented “a large-scale scientific and collaborative research initiative bringing together research, industry, government, and…
Lockheed Martin Australia has joined forces with Australian secure communications systems developer C4i, signing a contract as part of a proposal to deliver advanced secure communication capabilities to support the RAAF’s AIR6500 Phase 1 Project (AIR6500-1). The contract will see the two companies work together to design, test, integrate and authenticate secure voice communication technologies…
