Aerospace composites business Quickstep Holdings expects to finalise volumes by the end of the year for a five-year follow-on contract to supply Lockheed Martin with C-130J Hercules trailing edge flaps. Quickstep announced on Monday it had agreed binding contractual terms with the US company for the follow-on work, expected to be worth up to $96…
The new Connected Health Innovation and Commercialisation Centre (CHICC) in Melbourne’s CBD has been launched, and will offer services including skills training, a concierge to connect businesses with investors, and an accelerator program. According to a statement from state industry minister Ben Carroll (second from left), the William Street-located centre will support up to 500…
Hazer Group to receive $9.45 million R&D tax incentive Technology development company the Hazer Group has announced approval has been received of its FY2022 R&D tax incentive refund from the federal government of $9.45 million. The company, which is constructing a commercial demonstration plant in Western Australia to demonstrate the Hazer process for producing hydrogen…
Metal additive manufacturing business Conflux Technology has announced a partnership with Germany’s Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), which will see one of the Australian company’s heat exchangers incorporated in an orbital rocket In a statement from Conflux on Wednesday, the company said one of their heat exchangers would be embedded in a gas duct of a…
Alpha HPA has announced support from the Queensland government worth “up to $21.7 million”, which it will use to support Stage 2 of its HPA First project in Gladstone. In a statement to the ASX on Wednesday, Alpha said the funding from department of state development would support capital expenditure for Stage 2 (full-scale) at…
First baby to be born through utilisation of Memphasys technology Biotechnology company Memphasys has announced that India’s Coimbatore Women’s Hospital Centre has seen the first live birth of a healthy baby boy, conceived utilising the company’s patented system for selecting healthy sperm for IVF procedures. Memphaysys’s Felix instrument uses uses an electric force and polymer…
Grinding media specialist Molycop has announced that it has commercialised a new process to incorporate rubber from sources including end of life tyres and work boots in electric arc furnace steelmaking. The announcement marks the next generation of Green Steel AKA ‘Polymer Injection Technology’. This replaces a portion of coke used in steelmaking with recycled…
Liberty Steel has announced major upgrades to its Whyalla site, with installation of a new electric arc furnace and associated infrastructure — to replace a blast furnace and coke ovens — expected to be complete in 2025. In one of two significant announcements on Tuesday involving electric arc steelmaking (see here for Molycop’s polymer injection…
Defence Science and Technology Group has confirmed that it will work with QinetiQ Australia on the latter’s $12.9 million laser directed energy weapon development contract. In a statement from Defence Science Technology Group on Tuesday, DSTG said the project would see it collaborate on development of a prototype “defensive laser system”. It would also see…
CSIRO and corporate advisor RFC Ambrian have formed a company to commercialise technology for detecting and disposing of landmines, with their hand-held detectors potentially in use next year. MRead builds on decades of work by the national science agency on ore sorting over decades, Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said on Tuesday. Its product will…
