The Queensland government has said it has allocated $2.8 billion in funding to support up to 600 more homes including modular homes in its budget next week. Premier Steven Miles made the announcement on Monday at the QBuild Rapid Accommodation and Apprentice Centre in Eagle Farm, where modular homes are currently being built for delivery…
Industry minister Ed Husic is in the United States this week, including the Californian technology hubs of San Francisco and San Diego, “to showcase a Future Made in Australia”. In a statement over the weekend, Husic said he will be in the US from June 1 to 6 and will lead the nation’s presence at…
@AuManufacturing’s series Towards 3% R&D has been noticed from Canberra to business. Here, Dario Valenza charts some of the impediments to manufacturing and asks whether there is a path ahead, without sacrificing the things we value about Australia. Let’s start by acknowledging that we have a high cost base in Australia because of geography, regulation,…
Vast Renewables and German energy company Mabanaft GmbH & Co. KG have received planning consent for Solar Methanol 1 (SM1), a concentrated solar thermal (CSP) powered reference plant that will produce green fuels for export. In April Vast executed engineering contracts to complete Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the plant, which designed to produce up…
Brisbane’s Rino Recycling is trumpeting the success of its $95 million fully automated recycling plant at Pinkenba that turns construction and demolition waste into material for new infrastructure projects. Rino major projects manager Mat Stafford took to social media to reveal that the plant processed 17,386 tonnes of construction and demolition waste in a week…
The Queensland government has announced a $45 million package aimed at facilitating large scale, high recovery waste recycling projects, part of the state’s $2.1 billion waste and resource recovery package. State Development Minister Grace Grace visited BMI Group’s Stapylton Resource Recovery Centre (pictured), which is diverting over 185,530 tonnes of waste from landfill every year…
The biggest single tender for an Australian renewable energy projects opened on Friday, with bids welcomed for projects delivering 6 gigawatts of generation across the National Electricity Market (NEM.) According to a statement from federal energy minister Chris Bowen, it is the first in a series of six-monthly tenders as part of a plan to…
Technology development company Hazer Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea’s POSCO Steel to plan for the integration of Hazer’s technology into POSCO’s low carbon steel. POSCO, one of the world’s largest steel makers, and Hazer will develop a plan to integrate Hazer’s hydrogen production technology into POSCO’s low-carbon steel production. They…
Technology development company Sparc Technologies has announced the start of trials of its ecosparc graphene coatings additive in field trials with the South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport. Steel piles for the department’s Streaky Bay Jetty remediation project have been delivered for blasting and coating with either the ecosparc enhanced or control coatings. Field…
Manufacturing for Australia’s self-sufficiency is a must. Here Dr Mobin Nomvar Founder & MD of Scimita Ventures, examines how we can build on innovation to scale as a nation. In recent years, major conflicts have broken out in Ukraine, a major wheat producer, which together with attacks on ships passing through the Suez Canal and…
