Welding industry peak body Weld Australia announced the winners of the Victorian and Tasmanian Welding Excellence Awards at an event on Thursday evening. The awards highlight world-class work performed by welders, fabricators and educators in the industry, according to Weld Australia. “This year’s Victorian and Tasmanian winners feature businesses and people committed to the pursuit…
Building products group Adbri has accelerated the review of the ballooning cost of its $199 million investment in upgrading its Kwinana cement plant in Western Australia. The project will consolidate Adbri’s two existing cement production sites into a single operation serving the WA market, however it is being reviewed following the appointment of Interim CEO…
Graphene and battery technology group Sparc Technologies has progressed plans to commercialise its graphene based additive products. Sparc Technologies Managing Director Mike Bartels said that all equipment for the graphene based additives manufacturing facility had been delivered to site and construction was now underway. Bartels said: “This will enable Sparc to supply our global customer…
Now that industry and science minister Ed Husic has introduced legislation to establish the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, setting off a period of consultation, the big questions for the government is who will lead the NRF and how will it function. Here Husic talks with Peter Roberts. Industry and science minister Ed Husic is…
The federal government hasn’t given up on the six industry growth centres (IGCs ) which were told during the dying days of the Coalition government that their days were numbered, with the then government making no apparent effort to develop a replacement programme. A victim of the revolving door of industry ministers under the Coalition,…
As our Australia’s place in the semiconductor world editorial series draws to a close, Steven Duvall and Glenn Downey provide the final part of their four-part feature. Here they propose steps to help build the semiconductor industry in Australia 1) Introduction This article concludes our four-part feature on semiconductors, continuing the themes from the three…
In the final day of Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, we speak to Andy Brawley, whose long career in the sector was eventually ended by a NSW government determination that a historic fab must make way for a train line. “You can’t move a fab,” explains Andy Brawley, the General Manager of Manufacturing…
