Ballistic armour manufacturer XTEK has announced another sale of ballistic armour and helmets – this time to a US government agency. The company’s HighCom Armor Solutions Inc. business, received the order valued at $2.7 million for thousands of items of specialist body armour and ballistic helmet equipment. The company expects the order to be quickly…
Chemicals and explosives group Orica has stepped up its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 by announcing new interim reduction targets. The company announced it will source 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2040, with an interim step of 60 per cent by 2030. Orica has a target to reduce scope 1 and…
Railcar manufacturing has returned to Perth, Western Australia after a 30 year absence. The government Metronet rail expansions brought the opportunity to return manufacturing, with the first full six-car C-series train built in WA having completed high voltage testing. The train set will move out of the newly built Bellevue facility in the next month…
Multi-national communications company Motorola Solutions has bought innovative, Australian owned defence radio manufacturer Barrett Communications for an undisclosed sum. Bibra Lake, Perth company Barrett has a global niche market in HF and VHF radio communications solutions used by customers in in military, government, critical infrastructure, NGOs and peacekeeping organisations. Motorola said Barrett’s products were complementary…
Matrix Composites & Engineering has received an order worth $16 million for a subsea buoyancy system for a major deepwater oil and gas facility in South America. The contract, which has scope to increase to as much as $18 million, is to supply buoyant composites making up a subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (Surf) product.…
The United States market has been revealed as the new focus for BlueScope Steel in the company’s record $2.81 billion net profit after tax for FY22, 135 percent up on FY21 released today. The company’s underlying EBIT operating profit of $1.58 billion for the second half was beaten only by its’ first half result of…
DMTC Ltd and Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group are encouraging Australian industry, universities, and research organisations to submit applied research proposals aimed at supporting development of high-temperature structures and sub-assemblies. Collaborations supported under the RFP will directly align with the aims of the Australian defence and national security community by complementing parallel efforts in…
AGL Energy and Fortescue Future Industries have expanded their green hydrogen feasibility study to explore the development of a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility at AGL’s Hunter Energy Hub. Technical consultancy GHD Advisory is carrying out the feasibility study for AGL as the hub provider and Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) as the exclusive producer…
Sleep apnoea technology manufacturer ResMed has seen its revenues surge 12 percent to $5.07 billion (US$3.6 billion) and operating profit rise four percent in the latest full year following a quarter that saw steady growth in all its markets. In the latest, fourth quarter the San Diego-based company grew revenue four percent to $1.29 billion,…
Environmental Clean Technologies has released a video tour (below) showing progress in construction of its brown coal syngas into hydrogen and low emission electricity demonstration project at its site at Bacchus Marsh,Victoria. ECT experienced ‘tremendous supply chain disruption and labour market constraints’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, however the project team recently delivered a successful wet…
