Clean energy and mobility company Pure Hydrogen will supply a hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) powered waste collection truck to Australian waste management company Solo Resource Recovery (pictured). The vehicle will be used to service Solo’s municipal contracts including in Tweed Shire in northern New South Wales for an intial six month period during 2024. Pure…
Additive manufacturing machinery manufacturer Titomic has sold a custom high pressure cold spray system for use by Sabanci University’s Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Applications Center. The sale was agreed with the Turkish university by company agent Seha Muhendislik Musavirlik Ticaret ve Makina Sanayi A.S. The $2.4 million system is expected to be delivered and…
KFC names Detpak as national supplier of the year Food packaging solutions company Detpak has been named KFC’s Supplier of the Year for Australia. Detpak, a subsidiary of South Australian family-owned Detmold Group, was recognised by the fast-food giant ahead of more than a dozen suppliers of packaging, chicken, potatoes, beverages, other food ingredients –…
Seven South Australian companies supporting primary production and agribusiness have been awarded approximately $600,000 in grants from the second round of the state government’s AgTech Growth Fund, designed to accelerate development and commercialisation. Grants of up to $100,000 are offered through the program to technologies addressing industry challenges regarding drought resilience and climate adaptation; carbon…
The eight-member board of the National Reconstruction Fund, the federal government’s signature manufacturing program, has been announced, with Founding Director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation Martijn Wilder as its Chair. In a statement on Wednesday, industry minister Ed Husic said the experience of the independent board – which will make investment decisions for the…
Brisbane-based hypersonic aircraft company Hypersonix Launch Systems and NASDAQ-listed Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have announced an “exclusive teaming agreement”, with Hypersonix to potentially supply up to 20 DART AE hypersonic systems within the US market, integrated with Kratos’s Zeus family of solid rocket motors. DART AE is a three-metre-long, single-use, hydrogen-fuelled hypersonic platform, which…
CSIRO and Boeing have collaborated on a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) Roadmap to builds consensus on developing an Australian SAF industry, identifying opportunities to produce and scale production using Australian feedstocks. This meets what the organisations call a moment-in-time opportunity to develop a sovereign SAF industry, with domestic demand for jet fuel expected to increase…
Natural hydrogen developer Gold Hydrogen has received interpretations from recent airborne geophysical surveys of the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia which may point to the sites for the company’s first exploration wells. Green Hydrogen is considered a leader in a new hydrogen gold rush in South Australia where 18 exploration licenses have been applied for…
@AuManufacturing’s Australian Manufacturing Forum Linkedin networking and discussion group will go public in one week’s time, on August 16. We hope this move will mean greater reach for member posts and ideas, as well as community growth. There are no significant chances that will occur for members. Anyone on or off LinkedIn will be able…
ADVERTISING FEATURE By Stéphane Marouani The automotive field has historically been a rich area of innovation, with increasing vehicle complexity and tight production schedules requiring the adoption of new tools and techniques to build a differentiated product. More recently, automotive engineers are faced with new obstacles as they are tasked with integrating AI into vehicle…