Fortescue Metals Group has announced it plans to invest $9.2 billion by 2030 to eliminate fossil fuel risk to its business, in the process banking $1.2 billion a year in reduced operating costs. The investment will achieve real zero terrestrial emissions – Scope 1 and 2 – across its iron ore operations by 2030 and…
Satellite IoT communications manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies has brought its 3D printing capability in house to replace outsourcing of printed components including nanosatellite antennas and structural components(pictured). CEO Flavia Tata Nardini said manufacturing in-house offered huge benefits to the company and its customers. She said: ‘As well as enabling us to make complex components for…
The Australian Space Park (ASP), Australia’s first dedicated space manufacturing hub, has called for expressions of interest for a partner to operate its Common User Facility (CUF). The park, which includes companies Fleet Space Technologies, Q-CTRL, ATSpace and Alauda Aeronautics as investors and partners, is being constructed at Adelaide airport. The space park CUF will…
Carbon fibre nanotube x-ray technology company Micro-X has secured a strategic partner and $15 million in licence fees and capital funds that will support the company as it brings new products to market. The Adelaide company announced today a long-term strategic relationship with x-ray component manufacturer Varex Imaging Corporation giving it an exclusive global licence…
By Peter Roberts A year on from the cancellation of contracts with French Naval Group to build conventionally powered submarines in Adelaide, and the announcement of the Aukus agreement, the shape of future submarine construction is taking shape. With neither the US or the UK having the capacity to build extra submarines for Australia despite…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is backing construction of one of the world’s largest green hydrogen production plants, announcing conditional approval for a $47.5 million grant towards ENGIE’s renewable hydrogen and ammonia project near Karratha in Western Australia. The $87 million Yuri project includes a 10 megawatt (MW) electrolyser to produce renewable hydrogen, 18…
By Peter Roberts A six month surge in the share price of Perth international shipbuilder Austal is likely attributed to a big new US Navy shipbuilding contract and the fact Fortescue boss Andrew Forrest has been quietly buying up shares and now owns a 15 percent stake in the company. While other similar companies’ share…
Hopes are rising, including from Tesla chair Robyn Denholm, that Australia can revive automotive manufacturing by producing electric vehicles. Here Peter Roberts visits one company that is advancing plans to electrify – Ausev. From the outside the factory looks much like any other along the main road through Brendale in Brisbane’s outer northern suburbs. But…
International Graphite has successfully commissioned its new pilot scale graphite micronising and spheroidising equipment at its downstream processing facility at Collie in Western Australia. Graphite has a wide range of uses including battery anode material (BAM), while refractory materials account for 43 per cent of global consumption. Executive chairman Phil Hearse said: “This is a…
As part of @AuManufacturing’s and International Exhibition & Conference Group’s editorial partnership for this month’s Modern Manufacturing Expo in Sydney, today we profile Mitsubishi Electric’s Data Analytics Solutions. Peter Drucker’s statement that ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’ has quickly become the new business mantra. Reliable, accurate information is imperative to the development of…
