Orica announces executive appointments including new CFO Explosives technology group Orica has announced changes to its executive committee. Chief Financial Officer, Kim Kerr has decided to leave Orica and James Crough has been appointed as CFO. James joined Orica in May 2019 as Vice President of Finance, Australia Pacific and Asia. Subsequently, he was Interim…
By Paul Gover The caravan boom among grey nomads has created a surprising engineering success for a Melbourne company better known for its work with high-performance cars. Premcar, born from the ashes of Ford Performance Vehicles at the end of local carmaking, has since built a burgeoning business around its various engineering abilities. It has…
By Marina Yue Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; David Gann, University of Oxford, and Mark Dodgson, The University of Queensland Globalisation is on shaky ground. As China rises, the United States and its allies are moving to reduce their reliance on the world’s factory. The rivalry between the US and China is wide-ranging, from competition…
By Peter Roberts Relations between workers and management at submarine builder ASC have sunk even lower with members of the trade unions on the site unanimously issuing a vote of no confidence in the CEO’s leadership. Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) SA Assistant State Secretary Stuart Gordon said around 300 members across the AMWU, AWU…
It seems to be a characteristic about proud Australian Made companies that their commitment to going local is more than just skin deep. Australian made licensee Boss Aluminium owner David Whitehead is one that doesn’t just claim local provenance, but strives to buy as much of the materials and systems he needs from other Australian…
The Australian Army is calling on defence industry and academia to pitch innovative capabilities to optimise its soldiers for littoral or near shore operations as part of Army Innovation Day 2024 (AID24). AID24 is a strategic collaboration between the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Australian Army. Each year, Army Innovation Day poses a…
Fortescue Metals’ hydrogen-powered haul truck prototype, dubbed ‘Europa’, has operated off hydrogen for the first time. This development marks a major step in Fortescue’s mission to decarbonise heavy industry as well as the company’s partnership with Liebherr Mining. Delivered in collaboration with Liebherr, Europa is a T 264 Liebherr haul truck and contains a 1.6MWh…
Lunar rover prototypes built by the ELO2 Consortium – led by EPE and Lunar Outpost Oceania – are on a tour of the nation, following the March unveiling in Adelaide of three vehicles built by the team. ELO2 is one of two teams vying to build the nation’s first lunar rover, along with the AROSE…
The federal government has today released Australia’s first National Battery Strategy, supporting a Future Made in Australia as global demand for batteries is set to quadruple by 2030. According to a joint announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Industry Minister Ed Husi, the Strategy maps a path for Australia to take advantage of this…
DroneShield in new US defence order Drone countermeasure manufacturer DroneShield has received a repeat order of $5.7 million from a U.S. Government customer for a number of its C-UxS (Counter-UxS, pictured) systems. C-UxS refers to counterdrone systems targeting multi-domain aerial, ground and maritime surface drones. The delivery, involving multiple DroneShield product lines, is expected to…
