Wire arc additive manufacturing business AML3D has announced receipt of a purchase order worth $US $1.01 million (approximately $1.54 million) to support qualification testing of copper-nickel (Cu-Ni) alloys for US Department of Defense applications. The original contract to develop and test AM Cu-Ni components for the US Navy’s submarine program was announced in September last…
Metal additive manufacturing machinery manufacturer Titomic has broken into the US defence market with the sale of a custom Titomic Kinetic Fusion System (TKF System) to US-based venture business Triton Systems. The $1.2 million system, to be delivered within 9 months, is part of Triton’s larger strategic investment in developing new and innovative manufacturing applications.…
South Australian households to take to smart energy appliances Five hundred South Australian households are set to go energy-smart in a new project announced by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and electricity distributor SA Power Networks. ARENA is providing $6.2 million to SA Power Networks’ $13.8 million ‘Energy Masters’ project. The project will see…
As we have been publishing our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – new statistics have emerged that show that even higher education research, until now a national strongpoint, is faltering. Professor Roy Green details the biggest decline ever recorded in higher education research. The newly released Australian Bureau of…
Submarine builder ASC has acknowledged industrial action underway at its headquarters at Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide and pledged to work for a mutually beneficial outcome to the dispute. However according to an unconfirmed report on Channel 7 news the government owned business cut a proposed wage rise of 10 percent to 6.75 percent, suggesting…
The federal government has awarded building materials group Adbri a $50 million grant as part of the Commonwealth’s Powering the Regions Fund which will speed decarbonisation of hard to abate cement production. The funds will increase capacity and production of lower carbon cementitious products at the company’s Birkenhead, Adelaide cement plant, South Australia’s largest. The…
Biofuels are one of Australia’s biggest industrial and environmental opportunities. Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Geoff Bell looks at what is needed to make promise a reality. Australia, with its extensive demand for air travel and rich natural resources like biomass, solar and wind, is…
Cyclopharm’s Technegas radiopharmaceutical imaging system has achieved a streamlined reimbursement approval process in the United States, boosting its prospects in what is the world’s largest market. The Sydney company has received a Coding Determination for Technegas from the Center for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS), which means users will have a unique identifier which streamlines their…
