Dr Siqi Huo, who will begin as a researcher at University of Southern Queensland next year, has been awarded a $421,000 grant from the Australian Research Council for work on improved one-component epoxy resins. Huo was recently awarded a grant through the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme for research on what is…
The US Department of Homeland Security has extended its contract with carbon fibre nanotube X-Ray machine manufacturer Micro-X to continue the development of a Miniaturised CT Baggage Scanner. DHS also exercised an option to continue the Passenger Self-Screening Checkpoint design (pictured), with the two contracts are now valued at US$4.5 million to the Adelaide company.…
Large-format, wire arc additive manufacturing business AML3D has announced Ryan Millar as its new CEO, effective immediately, with founder and Managing Director Andy Sales to focus his attention on technology development as CTO. In a statement on Monday morning, AML3D – which sells AM machines, equipment and software and operates a bureau service – said…
Australian hydrogen electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer H2X Global has released details and photographs of its long awaited Warrego hydrogen powered utility vehicle (pictured). The Australian company is moving to achieve European compliance for the vehicle, to be followed by Australian compliance. Based on the Ford Ranger utility, the utility is being converted to include the…
Defence sales catalogue applications open Defence industry suppliers have been invited to apply for listings in the 2023 edition of the Australian Defence Sales Catalogue. Defence industry minister Pat Conroy said on Monday that the publication connects Australian businesses with potential customers around the world. 226 companies are in the current edition, which is available…
By Peter Roberts The federal government has had two attempts to mimic the success of Britain’s Catapult centres and Germany’s Fraunhofer technology and innovation centres, places where industrial technologies are developed, scaled up and realised in partnership with industry, publicly funded researchers and government. Neither of the two attempts, the first by a Labor government…
In episode 20 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski, we hear from David Fox, Associate Director, Research & Technology at the Western Parkland City Authority. The episode was recorded on the second day of last week’s Modern Manufacturing Expo, which @AuManufacturing is a media partner of. Fox has worked in manufacturing for over 30 years,…
Curious about what people were most interested in during the week just finished? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 1) A YEAR ON, THE SHAPE OF SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION TAKING SHAPE A year on from the cancellation of contracts with French Naval Group to build conventionally powered submarines in Adelaide, and the announcement of…
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…
