Global analytical science and device company Trajan Group Holdings has made another acquisition, this time of a specialised software business from California-based Sierra Analytics. The Ringwood, Victoria company’s US subsidiary has entered into an agreement to buy Sierra’s HDExaminer software operations for $623,000. The software is used in Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) which…
Queensland Parks and Wildlife rangers have joined wildlife services in other states trialling a unique trap that utilises Lidar laser light and artificial intelligence to target feral cats and foxes without endangering native animals. The trial in Wooroonooran National Park marks the first use of Felixer trap from Adelaide company Thylation in a tropical rainforest…
A new online estimator launched by the The Australian Alliance for Energy Productivity (A2EP) will help companies size heat pumps to replace gas boilers, according to the organisation. In a statement on Monday, the A2EP – a not-for-profit coalition of industry and research partners – said Australia has lagged Europe and other locations in adopting…
Cheap, imported furniture is on the rise and creating “an untenable problem for the future.” according to the nation’s peak association for the furnishing sector’s supply chain. In a statement on Monday, the Australian Furniture Association said “thousands of tonnes” of Christmas sale furniture were headed for nature strips and ultimately landfill “in a tragic…
New Ford Mustang uses Carbon Rev weels One-piece carbon fibre wheel maker Carbon Revolution announced on Friday that its wheels feature on the 2024 Mustang Dark Horse (pictured), its fourth program with Ford Motor Company. The five-spoke, 19-inch wheels will be optional on the Dark Horse, said Carbon Revolution, and reduce unsprung, rotational mass by…
Melbourne-based Corvus Technology Solutions will install high precision machinery at its’ defence manufacturing facility in Victoria, utilising recently announced funding in the first round of the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI). This will enable Corvus to produce a large number of precision parts and tooling with very high accuracy and consistency for the defence,…
Hot on the heels of the announcement of a solar methanol plant to be built by Vast Solar at Port Augusta in South Australia, the company has been backed to construct a first-of-a-kind 30 MW / 288 MWh concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the same city. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced today…
Many are challenging the traditional role of engineer, suggesting it may be incompatible with a sustainable future. Here Patrice Caine argues that as the world faces unprecedented challenges, engineers are the only real lever for bringing about, on a relevant scale, new ways to produce, live and consume. Has engineering had its heyday? This might…
