Traffic Technologies secures Tasmanian street light contract Traffic, IoT and smart city hardware and software manufacturer Traffic Technologies has secured a contract to supply Tasmanian electricity distributor TasNetworks with LED street lights. The contract, valued at up to $5 million, will see the supply of energy efficient pedestrian and vehicle lights, supplementing the 27,000 smart…
Industrial design and advanced manufacturing business Integra Systems has been inducted at the 2022 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards. Minister for Industry Support and Recovery Ben Carroll congratulated the winners and finalists at an awards ceremony in Melbourne (pictured) – the 20th anniversary of the awards. Integra describes itself as ‘part of a new…
German chemicals giant Henkel has announced an unspecified investment in 3RT, an Australian company that has developed a process to turn plantation residue into products that look and feel like high-quality hardwood.
A new facility for upskilling workers in automation will be established in the Northern Territory through a partnership between Diverseco and Charles Darwin University and awarded funding through the territory’s Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem Fund (AMEF.) According to a statement on Wednesday, the new facility will include automation and robotics assets and expertise and support the…
The University of Melbourne and Rockwell Automation will begin a new partnership “to collaborate on research activities, jointly develop training and work together” on digitalisation and decarbonisation.
By Peter Roberts I must be getting old and cynical, because when I looked up CSIRO’s latest report – Our future world, Global megatrends impacting the way we live over coming decades – my immediate reaction was ‘meh‘. Now I have been reporting CSIRO’s work in a positive light for decades, and my normal response…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) engine manufacturer Orbital Corporation has bounced back from bad news it received from the Boeing company earlier this year, announcing it has signed a contract worth $3.5 million with its major Singapore customer. In February Orbital confirmed the cancellation of a new UAV engine it was developing for Boeing subsidiary Insitu,…
The numbers of apprentices and trainees in-training in Australia remain high, according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The centre said there were 349,235 apprentices and trainees in-training as at 31 December 2021, 16.8 percent higher than at the same time in 2020 and only slightly lower than…
Pierlite has launched what it says is the country’s first air-purifying LED light fitting, able inactivate and remove 99.995 per cent of harmful pathogens and deliver 170 cubic metres per hour of clean air.
There are difficulties at the moment, sure, but we need to maintain some measured optimism while acknowledging the speedbumps. Vik Bansal explains.
