Welding industry professional body Weld Australia announced the winners of its South Australia Welding Excellence Awards for 2024 on Thursday night. The event at Kooyonga Golf Club in Adelaide showcased “the exceptional talent of welders and fabricators across South Australia” Weld Australia CEO Geoff Crittenden said in a statement on Friday. “The 2024 Welding Excellence…
The federal government has husbanded the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024 and its two supporting bills through federal Parliament. The bills establish a voluntary Guarantee of Origin (GO) scheme, an Australian Government-backed certification scheme to authenticate low-emissions products and support renewable electricity and hydrogen production. According to Climate Change and Energy…
Dr Munib Karavdic is the founder and CEO of WAVE Design, which has a longstanding partnership with @AuManufacturing and has been involved in this title’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign for the last couple of years. He shares some observations on what sets the best innovators apart. There’s a quote from the legendary football…
Six new Custom Denning buses head for Rotala UK Operations Six more Custom Denning Element 2 electric buses are on their way to Rotala, a transport operator in the UK, as part of Rotala’s bigger plan to enhance its fleet with zero-emission vehicles. The six new Custom Denning Element 2 electric buses will be hitting…
Industry Capability Network NSW (ICN NSW) celebrated its 40th anniversary this week at an event in Sydney’s CBD featuring a four-decade retrospective and a keynote address from NSW industry minister Anoulack Chanthivong. According to a statement, Chanthivong commended ICN NSW for its unwavering commitment to supporting local businesses to engage with domestic supply chains and…
Composites manufacturer Quickstep’s Chairman Patrick Largier has left the way open for the company to come to terms with the local conglomerate of defence SMEs, ASDAM Group, which is bidding to take over the company. Largier told the company’s AGM that the company’s board and its advisers were studying the offer. Largier said: “Quickstep’s board…
Funding totalling $12 million has been awarded to 68 research projects through the fourth round of the National Industry PhD Program, addressing industry problems in laser dentistry, surgical robotics, meat analogue foods, and elsewhere. PhDs under the program are designed to tackle an industry application, with candidates undertaking a co-designed research project with university and…
Building-integrated photovoltaics company ClearVue Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire the IP and assets of Israeli company ROOTS Sustainable Agricultural Technologies. The acquisition, by subsidiary OptiCrop (Israel) Ltd, aims to expand photovoltaic glass and curtain wall systems manufacturer ClearVue’s offerings in agriculture markets. ROOTS, formerly listed on the ASX, has developed a Root…
A CSIRO-developed tubular solid oxide electrolysis (SOE) system for generating hydrogen began operation at BlueScope Steel’s Port Kembla Steelworks in October, and has passed 1,000 hours of operation, according to the nation’s scientific agency. In a statement on Thursday, CSIRO said the system differs from water-splitting electrolysis machines – which separate water into hydrogen and…
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra This year will set a record for the addition of renewables to the grid, according to figures to be released on Thursday by the Clean Energy Regulator. It projects the average annual renewable share of the electricity market will be 45% in 2025. The Albanese government’s target is 82%…