Researchers from UNSW Sydney have discovered a new method to create flexible, semiconductor-like materials. The research was led by UNSW’s Dr Hoang-Phuong Phan and published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. It is described as using lithography – which is a technique that uses light to fabricate features in integrated circuits – to create wide…
Defence vehicle armour producer Plasan of Israel has successfully completed blast tests on the AS10 vehicle which is being purchased for the Australian Army under Phase 1 of the LAND 8116 Protected Mobile Fires (PMF) programme. The tests, carried out with the support of Hanwha Defense Australia and Hanwha Aerospace from the Republic of Korea,…
Advertisement The Australian Manufacturing Forum has been approached by one of its members who wishes to sell his business – a high quality precision engineering business in Melbourne. The company has a range of blue chip clients with long term relationships in sectors including mining, defence, food packaging and industrial sectors. The company is ‘very…
Australia’s flooring industry from manufacturers to installers have taken the first step towards a circular economy approach to flooring. The Australian Resilient Flooring Association (ARFA) has released the proposed design for ResiLoop, Australia’s first national stewardship scheme for resilient flooring. More than 40 key stakeholders including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, installers, and specifiers as well as…
Visy has officially launched the upgrade to its Gibson Island, Queensland recycling facility, which the company says will add an additional 39,000 tonnes per annum of capacity and 11 new jobs. The $48 million project was awarded a $16 million grant from the Queensland Jobs Fund in April last year, with state premier Annastacia Palaszczuk…
Vanadium miner and processor Australian Vanadium (AVL) has received a federal government grant that advances the development of a vanadium redox battery industry in Australia. The federal government will provide a $49 million grant through the Modern Manufacturing Initiative – Manufacturing Collaboration Stream to support the Australian Vanadium Project. The company plans a mine at…
Digital microscopy company Optiscan Imaging has announced the launch of an entitlement offer, aiming to raise as much as $16.7 million for purposes including R&D, clinical studies and working capital. In a statement on Tuesday morning it said that had lodged a prospectus with ASIC, with an indicative date of July 6 for issuing shares…
A parliamentary subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade will hold a public hearing on Space Command and capability on Tuesday, According to a statement from Julian Hill MP, chair of the Defence Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, the subcommittee will hear evidence…
A Canadian-based mining innovation company is opening a new office in Adelaide to study the application of its ore crushing and grinding technologies to remote mining operations envisaged on the Moon. Rockburst Technologies benefitted from funding as part of the South Australian Landing Pad programme to establish operations in the state, including related to space-based…
A review study looking back at the effects of Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and restrictions on the VET sector has reaffirmed the particularly negative effects of the pandemic on apprentices and trainees. The study, the Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on VET by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), showed more than one in…
