H2X Global partners with Norwegian Hydrogen Australian-headquartered hydrogen fuel cell vehicle manufacturer H2X Global announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) last week with Norwegian Hydrogen, a green hydrogen production, distribution and refueling company. according to a statement from the pair, it will cover collaboration on commercial supply of hydrogen and a range…
The NSW Labor opposition has pledged to invest $42.7 million in three training facilities, the first of them in the Illawarra, as part of its TAFE Domestic Manufacturing Centres of Excellence program. In an announcement on the campaign trail on Monday, the opposition said the new facility would be able to “train, re-train and upskill”…
Supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles said on Thursday that they’ve offered to assume responsibility for an estimated 12,000 tonnes of stockpiled soft plastic left behind by the collapsed REDcycle program. REDcycle collected soft plastics from about 2,000 supermarkets around Australia. It was paused in November, and had been secretly stockpiling unprocessed plastic at sites around…
Brisbane-based, Toronto-listed Graphene Manufacturing Group announced on Wednesday that it had the regulatory and council approvals needed to begin commercial-scale manufacturing of its novel batteries. To date the company has been working under R&D-level regulatory approvals to make battery cell prototypes. The announcement is the first about GMG’s batteries since June last year, when GMG…
Upcoming report to look at boosting cell and gene manufacturing AusBiotech has commissioned research into what is required for Australia to manufacture more cell and gene products. There is an opportunity for Australia to be a regional hub in the Asia Pacific region for cell and gene manufacturing, yet there are a number of barriers,…
A team of researchers from Australian and UK universities has developed a proof-of-concept for “metasurface” technology, claiming strong advantages over LCD screens. The team from UNSW Canberra and the Australian National University, as well as the UK’s Nottingham Trent University, developed novel cells that are 100 times thinner and offer ten times the resolution –…
By Dylan McConnell, UNSW Sydney The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) this week released an update to its annual assessment of reliability, the so-called Electricity Statement of Opportunities. This has been reported as the market operator forecasting “power shortages”, or the network being “at risk of supply shortages”. The market operator has certainly put up…
Bega Group will close its Griffith, Canberra dairy factory and move manufacture to the company’s Penrith, NSW site, citing inefficiencies in logistics due to a lack of dairy farms in the Australian Capital Territory. The move follows a review by Bega, which said the Griffith plant (formerly known as Capitol Chilled Foods) had been operating…
A new survey by market research firm Roy Morgan for the Australian Made Campaign has looked at the sentiments of consumers purchasing locally-made products, finding that six out of every seven shoppers said buying Australian products was important to them. Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine said that buying Australian-made created a strong emotional response for…
Caravan manufacturing in Australia has enjoyed its best sales since the 1970s, with 28,031 new units sold in Australia last year. A desire to reconnect with the outdoors drove sales of locally-made caravans to increase by 17.1 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year, while Australians also upped purchases of imports by 8.4…
