Lithium ion battery storage company Energy Renaissance, which recently marked a decade anniversary, has apparently collapsed. Few details are available, but an ASIC notice dated August 13 states that Stewart William Free and Bradd William Morelli have been appointed as administrators to ER Industrial Pty Ltd, formerly trading as Energy Renaissance. @AuManufacturing requested comment from…
The University of Sydney’s Sydney Manufacturing Hub (SMH) has installed a new WarpSPEE3D cold spray additive manufacturing machine made by Australian company SPEE3D, which it says will support both novel research and collaborative projects with industry partners. In a statement on Tuesday, SMH said the machine is the latest addition to its Large-Format Additive Manufacturing…
Kongsberg Defence Australia (KDAu) has secured two export deals totalling $80 million and covering launcher systems and command and control consoles, which will all be assembled using “100 per cent Australian made components and subsystems”. According to a statement from Defence on Thursday, KDAu secured a $50 million order for Australian-made Naval Strike Missile (NSM)…
Solar module maker Tindo Solar was recently awarded $34.5 million in federal government support. Here CEO Richard Petterson answers criticism about assistance to local companies in terms of the “potential unfair advantage” enjoyed by other nations selling into Australia. The big news in renewables last week was the government’s $34.5 million commitment to domestic manufacturing…
Archer partners with IMEC on Biochip ASX-listed semiconductor developer Archer Materials has signed a contract to work with R&D organisation Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) on the product development of its biosensor. According to a statement from Archer, IMEC will trial the use of silicon-based devices such as ion-selective field effect transistors alongside Archer’s graphene devices.…
Social enterprise Soft Landing, which was recently awarded a grant from the state government’s Circular Economy Investment Program, has shared its plans to establish Queensland’s “first dedicated mattress recycling site to offer non-virgin material streams including steel, timber and textiles”. According to a statement from the company on Wednesday, it will collaborate with South East…
Animal-free fat maker Nourish Ingredients has received US clearance for a key ingredient it uses, enabling the company to sell its Tastilux product in that market. According to a statement from the Canberra-based company on Wednesday, the expert panel of the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association of the United States (FEMA) determined that Nourish’s proprietary…
Turquoise Group, a Darra, Brisbane company commercialising a plasma-based process to make low-cost graphene and hydrogen out of methane gas, has begun bulk sales of graphene powder. CEO Sam Taubert (pictured) said in a statement on Tuesday that sales have “put Turquoise and Australia at the forefront of the rapidly growing global graphene sector, with…
Two plastic recycling projects in NSW have received grants to increase plastic recycling capacity, with iQRenew awarded $9.1 million for an infrastructure upgrade at its Kundle Kundle plant, and Tamworth Regional Council awarded $1.9 million for a new facility. According to a joint statement from the NSW and federal environment ministers, Penny Sharpe and Murray…
By Aayushi Badhwar, RMIT University Today’s consumers are swimming in a sea of information. Products are marketed with big, bold words such as “sustainable”, “ethical” and “organic”. They sound good, they catch our attention, and they make us feel better about what we buy. The reality is, in today’s market, figuring out which claims are…