A new report has identified potential economic benefits from manufacturing above the generalised calls for Australia to become a renewables superpower. The report from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Climate Action Network Australia, and the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures lays out the opportunities and actions required to stake out Australia’s value-added future.…
Expressions of interest are open for subsidies worth up to $6,000 through Investment NSW for up to 12 “emerging premium food and beverage manufacturers” wanting to exhibit at the Fine Food Australia trade event. According to a statement from Investment NSW, Fine Food is the southern hemisphere’s leading trade event for the food industry, attracting…
Packaging business BioPak has announced the acquisition of Australian-based reusable cup company, Huskee. In a statement on Tuesday, BioPak said the deal “marks a significant partnership and alignment” and will “fast-track and strengthen both BioPak and Huskee’s shared vision towards a circular economy and a world without waste.” The value of the deal was not…
Hydrogen technology developer Sparc Hydrogen has successfully tested its second generation prototype photocatalytic water splitting (PWS) reactor atop a solar tower at the CSIRO Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales (pictured). Sparc Hydrogen, a joint venture between the University of Adelaide, Fortescue and Sparc Technologies, tested over numerous trial runs the second generation prototype…
Paper, packaging and recycling business Visy has announced that an average of 63 per cent recycled content in its glass packaging across Australia and New Zealand for the financial year so far, a 5 per cent increase on the previous financial year. In a statement on Tuesday the company said the figure is higher still…
AML3D 3D printer gets to work in US submarine programme AML3D’s industrial-scale ARCEMY ‘X-Edition 6700’ Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) metal 3D printing system has been commissioned and is in operation at the US Navy’s Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence (AM CoE) in Danville, Virginia. The $1.1 million order for the machine was placed through…
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) has completed a strategic assessment of manganese miner Element 25‘s Butcherbird Stage 2 expansion project. Butcherbird will export manganese to a high-purity manganese sulphate (HPMSM) refinery in Louisiana USA to supply the US electric vehicle battery industry. Element 25 Managing Director Justin Brown said: “The results of our Feasibility…
Pharmaceutical company Starpharma is to establish a new UK based company called Petalion Therapeutics Limited in joint venture with life sciences investment firm Medicxi,. Petalion will initially focus on developing novel targeted dendrimer-drug conjugate therapies in oncology, utilising Starpharma’s proprietary DEP dendrimer platform technology. Medicxi will fund Petalion with an initial investment of up to…
Fleet Space Technologies has announced the successful deployment of its next-generation Centauri-6 satellite on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 mission, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The new member of the company’s satellite constellation will help service demand for its end-to-end mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, while also building capacity to deliver…
Aurora Labs has 3D printed a micro gas turbine that could be the centre of a small propulsion system or power plant for unmanned aerial vehicles or instant power generation. The system, part of the company’s development of 200N and 400N Class gas turbines, will be available in the market as early as next month…
