Today in our editorial series Celebrating Australian Made, coinciding with Australian Made Week, we look at how steel producers are moving to embrace green steel production technologies which will flow through to the entire steel value chain, including numerous Australian Made licensees. By John Noonan Europe introduces a carbon border tax in 2026, but will…
SPEE3D has been named a winner at the recent US Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology (OSD ManTech) “Point of Need Challenge”. SPEE3D is an Australian-based company specialising in cold spray additive manufacturing technology. This uses metal particles shot out of a nozzle at supersonic speeds, fusing together to build near-net shape components.…
International Graphite has selected the preferred site for its proposed graphite battery anode material (BAM) facility at the former coal mining city of Collie in Western Australia. The Company has signed an exclusive non-binding memorandum of understanding to negotiate a lease over approximately 20 hectares of privately owned land in the Coolangatta industrial precinct (pictured,…
The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) and not-for-profit standards organisation GS1 Australia have collaborated to assist APCO Members with increasingly complex annual sustainability reporting. The partnership sees more than half of APCO Annual reporting questions incorporated into the GS1 National Packaging Catalogue (NPC) database, providing a solution for APCO Members to actively track progress towards…
Thales Australia has welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy of a $160 million contract to build new Bushmaster Protected Vehicles (pictured) for the Australian Army. The contract for the new Bushmasters was signed at Thales Australia’s Bendigo facility today in the presence of Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters who…
Gilmour Space Technologies today welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to their Gold Coast factory to formally unveil and ‘launch’ the Eris rocket – Australia’s first home-grown orbital launch vehicle. Albanese said: “This is a great Australian success story. “A company that began eight years ago but now employs 200 people here at the cutting edge…
By Susanne Becken, Griffith University; Brendan Mackey, Griffith University, and David Simon Lee, Manchester Metropolitan University The global airline industry is fast recovering from the unprecedented pause to flying imposed by COVID-19. In some parts of the world, such as the Middle East, airlines are even expanding rapidly – well beyond pre-pandemic levels. But how…
Defence and space company Black Sky Aerospace has announced that it has approval to develop its site into an integrated facility for rocketry, including R&D, testing and manufacture. In a statement on Wednesday, the company said its 2,500-acre-plus property in southern Queensland is used mainly for agriculture at the moment, but the new “Material Change…
CSIRO has released a new report examining the prospects of carbon dioxide utilisation in the Northern Territory, which will help inform the business case for a proposed Northern Territory Low Emission Hub (NTLEH.) The Opportunities for CO2 Utilisation in the Northern Territory report has been delivered to the territory government and stakeholders, CSIRO said in…
New MD for Tetra Pak Oceania Boris Munster has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Tetra Pak Oceania, succeeding Andrew Pooch, who stepped down to retire after nearly 35 years of service to the company. In his new role, Munster will be responsible for Tetra Pak’s business operations in Australia and New Zealand.…