Family-owned Bundaberg region company Kookaburra Worm Farms says that it expects to take on ten new full-time staff as it commercialises a new liquid biological fertiliser. In a statement on Tuesday from the Queensland government, which recently awarded the company a Regional Economic Development Grant, Bundaberg state MP Tom Smith said Kookaburra was creating a…
The federal government has announced the establishment of an Office of National Rail Industry Coordination (ONRIC). According to a statement the office will lead a national and coordinated approach to address challenges facing the rail manufacturing sector. The office will deliver the government’s $14.2 million National Rail Manufacturing Plan, part of the government’s A Future…
The reason why additive manufacturing group Amaero abandoned plans to build a titanium alloy powders plant in Victoria has been revealed in a statement to the ASX. The plant will instead be constructed in the United Arab Emirates supported by investment funds made possible by that country’s defence offsets programme. In September Amaero dumped a…
The Babcock Australasia-owned NSM (Australia) has been awarded a five-year contract initially worth $32 million for maintenance at Defence’s new Regional Maintenance Centre West at Henderson, Western Australia, following a competitive tender process. RMCW is scheduled to be fully-operational in the third quarter of next year, initially supporting sustainment of the Arafura class offshore patrol…
Senior engineering and management professional Dr Sanjay Mazumdar has been announced as Executive Director of the four-year Defence Trailblazer for Concept to Sovereign Capability (CSC), a program allocated $50 million by the previous federal government. University of NSW – which leads the Trailblazer with University of Adelaide – described Mazumdar as a “proven chief executive…
Four South Australian companies are putting the final touches on the VS03 mission that will launch a rocket and state-of-the-art payloads into space before the end of the year. Southern Launch, ATSpace, Asension and Inovor Technologies have collaborated on the mission which will see an ATSpace ‘Kestrel I’ rocket launched from the Southern Launch Whalers…
Australia’s electricity grid is being shaken up as states and the Commonwealth embrace renewables. But this also gives Australia a chance to claim back energy monopolies it lost to state owned companies from China and Singapore, argues Shane West. With coal supplying 80 percent of Victoria’s energy, the closing of the Loy Yang power station…
Geelong’s Deakin University engineering students are about to roll out for a test drive one of the most unusual vehicles ever built in this city, once the centre of Ford manufacturing – the car they designed and built for the 2023 World Solar Challenge. The road tests come after a disrupted three years preparation which…
Carbon Fibre road wheel manufacturer Carbon Revolution has outlined an ambitious plan to merge with a US fund, list on a US stock exchange and emerge with a warchest to speed its path to commercialisation. The Geelong company told shareholders that it had signed a non-binding letter of intent to merge with a US special…
