UNSW opens new hydrogen centre UNSW opened its new ARC Training Centre for The Global Hydrogen Economy earlier this week. The Australian Research Council awarded $4.9 million to “GlobH2E” in 2020, said the university, “to engage Australia’s best researchers to develop hydrogen technologies and innovations to aid the world’s transition to renewable energies”, with $3.5…
Additive Assurance, a Monash University spinout developing in-process quality assurance technology for 3D printing, has announced successful completion of a $4.1 million funding round. The raise was led by Significant Capital Ventures (SCV) – which will gain a seat on AA’s board – and supported by Hostplus, with existing investors IP Group Australia and Monash…
By Nathan Garland, Griffith University and Matthew Hole, Australian National University Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, developments in fusion power, which potentially ticks all these boxes, have been funded almost…
KPMG Australia and Stone & Chalk Group have today announced their first Future Technology Program cohort, which backs Australian startups building supply chain solutions. The successful startup founders and their teams will receive residency for 12 months at one of Stone & Chalk Group’s startup hubs located in Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide. They will also…
Businesses are increasingly being asked to report, justify and act to reduce their carbon emissions. Here Bruce Macfarlane outlines what it means as the circular economy crashes into supply chains. As the UN’s COP27 carnival packs up and leaves Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, many questions will be on the minds of government and business leaders. Like…
The European Investment Bank (EIB), backed by the InvestEU programme, is granting a €36.7 million loan to Königswarter & Ebell, a German subsidiary of Australian Battery cathode materials producer Pure Battery Technologies (PBT). The project involves construction of a commercial demonstration plant at a brownfield industrial site owned by Königswarter & Ebell in Hagen, Germany…
Xefco is moving to the pilot manufacturing stage for a new waterless dyeing and finishing process, which it says could cut energy and water use by 86 per cent and 88 per cent respectively versus conventional wet processes. The company’s Ausora solution is described as using a “plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition” method to apply dyes…
Welding technology developer K-TIG along with two shipbuilding partners is to demonstrate the suitability of K-TIG technology for the repair and sustainment of US Navy warships. The company has been awarded a research project under the US Navy’s National Shipbuilding Research Program to demonstrate the suitability of its advanced form of Keyhole Tungsten Inert Gas…
Needle-free vaccination company Vaxxas has announced completion of a funding round worth $34 million, which it says will help it build production capacity and accelerate its clinical program for a Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Among existing investors in the round were OneVentures and University of Queensland technology transfer organisation Uniquest. “This financing from a strong syndicate…
Matrix raises cash for expansion Perth’s Matrix Composites and Engineering has secured funding via a $7.5 million convertible note to fund major new contracts as it continues its emergence from a Covid pandemic low in business. The company, which manufactures buoyancy systems for underwater oil and gas infrastructure, has secured $30 million in orders since…
