Semiconductor Australia announced for October

ASX-listed semiconductor developer and manufacturer BluGlass has announced a one-day Semiconductor Australia Conference 2024 in October. In a statement on Thursday, Bluglass said it has partnered with the Semiconductor Sector  Service Bureau (S3B), and ShareCafe on the event, to be held at Deloitte’s premises in Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower on October 24..  It will feature…

Australia, UK battery researchers join forces

Australian businesses could access world-leading battery manufacturing scale-up facilities following an agreement between Powering Australia and the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC). UKBIC is a $250 million battery manufacturing scale-up facility based in Coventry, UK, while Powering Australia is the team behind the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre. Powering Australia was allocated $20.3 million…

Amaero invests $71 million in additive future

Additive manufacturing technology company Amaero International has revealed that its capital expenditures over the 3-year period of FY2024-FY2026 was $71.3 million. The company also said that capital expenditure for FY2024 was $11.2 million, compared to earlier estimates of $18.6 million, with $7.4 million of capital expenditures budgeted for the year deferred to FY2025. Amaero did…

Next gen Hadrian X robot achieves site acceptance in the US

Robotic technology company FBR has received confirmation from CRH Ventures that the first next-generation Hadrian X block laying robot has successfully met their requirements and has completed Site Acceptance Testing at its Fort Myers facility in Florida, United States. An independent structural engineer provided confirmation that the walls of the test build were consistent with…

SPEE3D prints 11 metal parts in major defence exercise

Metal additive manufacturing machinery manufacturer SPEE3D has announced the successful completion of the experimental phase of Trident Warrior, a major US military trial programme. SPEE3D deployed its Expeditionary Manufacturing Unit (EMU, pictured) mobile additive manufacturing solution during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise – at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay in…

CEFC ‘crowds in’ investment in clean energy – Ian Learmonth

The clean Energy Finance Corporation’s work of co-investing alongside private sector funds has never been more important than in 2024. Here in his investment update for 2023-24 CEFC CEO Ian Learmonth writes of a year of investment opportunities and constraints, of emissions progress and the increasingly personal impacts of climate change. As a specialist investor…