Australian packaging and recycling giant Visy has begun construction on a new $500 million glass manufacturing and recycling facility on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The new site, in Stapylton, will create about 600 jobs during construction, 200 new full-time ‘green collar’ manufacturing jobs, and aims to produce around 1 billion bottles a year with the potential…
By Peter Roberts in Amsterdam About 100 kilometres from Amsterdam in a workshop dedicated to vehicle electrification sits one of two unique hydrogen fuel cell-electric utility vehicles – Australian company H2X Global’s Warrego utility (pictured, below). The company converted two such vehicles based on Ford’s Ranger concurrently, one here in Holland and a second at…
A study of Asia Pacific business leaders has found that industry leaders are proactively spearheading innovation in sustainability through investment in technologies, asset development, and distribution infrastructure at an accelerated speed. However the study, from data and sustainability business Hexagon, found many were being held back in moving to net zero emissions by adopting new…
Jatcorp’s new China distribution agreement China export specialist Jatcorp has announced an agreement which will see the supply milk powders to Chinese milk brand company BTNature over the next 12 months. The agreement, which could be worth up to $28 million in product sales, covers around 3.2 million cans of eight different products. This is…
In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski, we hear from Lee Stanley, Business Development Manager at systems integrator Daronmont Technologies. The episode was recorded at this month’s Land Forces expo. 0:20 – Career path and introduction to Daronmont and its work. 2:50 – Overview of some projects, including as tier one subcontractor to…
The federal government has confirmed $50 million in funding to assist Nyrstar with a major $400 million upgrade at its Tasmanian zinc smelter, to be delivered in Tuesday’s budget. Federal assistance of that value for the smelter was announced by the previous federal government before its election loss, along with $20 million in Tasmanian government…
What were the five biggest stories during the week just finished? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. GREEN HYDROGEN IS ELECTRIFICATION A number of people contacted me last week after the remarks of Saul Griffith on television and in print media that have been reported as an attack on green hydrogen. I have responded individually…
The Geelong region has proof of what was until now only supported anecdotally – Australia’s regions are growing manufacturing jobs. Census data available this week from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals an extraordinary story about Geelong manufacturing – manufacturing employment in the Geelong and Colac regions grew for the first time in recent memory.…
Northern Territory insulation manufacturer Arctic Solutions has developed a novel range of insulating panels designed for the unique climatic and weather requirements of tropical regions. The solution is set to displace fully imported material via a co-invested project from the Northern Territory’s (NT) Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem Fund (AMEF). The NT-developed panels, used in cool rooms…
Defence and Babcock have signed a contract to provide the Australian Defence Force with “an enhanced high-frequency communications system” to support regional and global operations. In a short statement from defence industry minister Pat Conroy on Friday, the news was called “a major boost to Defence’s strategic high-frequency communications capability”. Conroy said the federal government…
