Siemens and its national distribution partner APS Industrial (APS) today announced the opening of a new facility in Adelaide to manufacture and assemble a range of critical technology, including Siemens’ air circuit breakers (ACBs). The new development will inject over 150 technology jobs into the local industry over the next 10 years, as well as…
ADVERTISING FEATURE By Stéphane Marouani The automotive field has historically been a rich area of innovation, with increasing vehicle complexity and tight production schedules requiring the adoption of new tools and techniques to build a differentiated product. More recently, automotive engineers are faced with new obstacles as they are tasked with integrating AI into vehicle…
University of Southern Queensland has shared an update on its collaboration with rail sleeper manufacturer Austrak, with a team of engineering experts recently travelling to Adelaide to install their first composite railway transoms. The Queensland State Government and Austrak have funded the project through an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship to USQ Chief Investigator Dr…
A new RMIT University-led project will see new roads at ten sites contain recycled material, including hard-to-recycle soft plastics, demonstrating “a viable circular-economy solution to the nation” according to the university. The project – which is supported by the Australian Research Council, Austroads and ten Victorian councils – will use post-consumer and industrial waste plastic…
Following last week’s 2023 National Manufacturing Summit in Canberra, Weld Australia has issued a call for transformative national policy that delivers secure supply chains and a diverse renewables and clean energy economy, sustained by the manufacturing industry. Here Geoff Crittenden writes that Australia must take inspiration from the United States, and their Inflation Reduction Act…
Like most Australian manufacturers in post-Covid Australia in 2023, Richard Simpson, Managing Director at Notting Hill, Victoria manufacturer Furnace Engineering, is having trouble hiring staff. Labour and skills shortages have become an everyday refrain, but for Simpson it is not just a matter of taking on anyone – he has learned that can be a…
By Peter Roberts Queensland, a state only a few years seemingly totally committed to coal fired electricity generation as well as fossil fuel export, is putting on a greener front as investments in green energy reap quick results. According to the government the state is halfway to achieving its 2030 renewable energy target with a…
Building products group Boral is close to the culmination of a major effort at the site of the new Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) now under construction. According to the company it ‘is in the thick of assembling (the) mobile asphalt plant’ which will be responsible for the airside surfaces at the airport at the…
Leading egg and poultry meat producer Baiada Poultry is going automated as it increases its presence in the Riverina region of New South Wales. The company, which includes the well known Lilydale Free Range and Steggles brands, is set to grow with the construction of two fully automated new breeding farms in the region underway…
