An area covering 1,854 square kilometres off NSW’s Hunter region was declared suitable for offshore wind development by the federal government on Wednesday. According to a statement from the department of energy, the zone is 20 km from the coast in the north and over 35 km from the coast in the south and has…
Miner Rio Tinto and global trading company Sumitomo Corporation will build a pilot hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Queensland as part of a $111.1 million programme aimed at cutting emissions from the process of refining alumina. The Yarwun Hydrogen Calcination Pilot Demonstration Program received the green light after a $32.1 million co-funding boost from the federal…
Quantum infrastructure company Q-CTRL has announced a partnership with the Department of Defence to develop quantum sensors that will deliver quantum assured navigation capability for military platforms. The programme will provide quantum enhanced positioning and navigation capability built on Q-CTRL’s software-ruggedised quantum sensing technology. Quantum-enhanced navigation will deliver the ability for vehicles to position accurately…
By Peter Roberts One of the most recurring themes in defence media nowadays is that Australia should build more Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers (picture). Hardly a week goes by without a story appearing somewhere of Spanish shipbuilder Navantia who designed the ships ‘ramping up their campaign’ to build more of the vessels to add…
Manganese miner Element 25 has finalised a $22.6 million (US$15 million) share placement in the company from global automaker Stellantis N.V. which will help finance the development of a battery-grade high purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) facility in the United States. Stellantis has committed to a take or pay supply agreement to take 45kt of…
The Western Australian Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Western Green Energy Hub and Korea Electric Power Corporation aiming to develop one of Australia’s largest proposed green hydrogen hubs. The Western Green Energy Hub to be located in WA’s Goldfields-Esperance region will cover 15,000 square kilometres and envisagese around 3,000 wind turbines…
@AuManufacturing and the Australian Manufacturing Forum’s quest to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers for 2023 ended last week. A new 36-page report on some of the companies featured, what we can learn from them, analysis from judges, different ways of understanding innovation (from the innovators themselves) and more is now available. The 2023 Awards…
LED lighting specialist VAILO has announced that it has outgrown its Kent Town, Adelaide site and will relocate to a new factory and R&D facility in Wayville in early-2024. According to a statement on Tuesday from VAILO – which was renamed from VALO in May – the new facility would cater to increasing demand and…
Critical metals producer Alpha HPA will go ahead with its $300 million second stage of its Gladstone high purity alumina facility following Queensland government support through a $21 million Industry Partnership Program grant. The company’s Stage 1 Precursor Production Facility (PPF, pictured) is already in operation producing utilising its proprietary licensed solvent extraction and refining…
The Australian Maritime Alliance (AMA), a joint venture between engineering group and shipbuilder Civmec and defence services company Serco, is using Pivot Maritime International as core simulation partner on the Land 8710 – Phase 1A Army Littoral Manoeuvre Vessel Medium (LMV-M) project. In a statement from AMA on Tuesday, Serco said its General Manager Maritime…
