Industrial design and advanced manufacturing business Integra Systems has been inducted at the 2022 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards. Minister for Industry Support and Recovery Ben Carroll congratulated the winners and finalists at an awards ceremony in Melbourne (pictured) – the 20th anniversary of the awards. Integra describes itself as ‘part of a new…
By Peter Roberts I must be getting old and cynical, because when I looked up CSIRO’s latest report – Our future world, Global megatrends impacting the way we live over coming decades – my immediate reaction was ‘meh‘. Now I have been reporting CSIRO’s work in a positive light for decades, and my normal response…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) engine manufacturer Orbital Corporation has bounced back from bad news it received from the Boeing company earlier this year, announcing it has signed a contract worth $3.5 million with its major Singapore customer. In February Orbital confirmed the cancellation of a new UAV engine it was developing for Boeing subsidiary Insitu,…
The numbers of apprentices and trainees in-training in Australia remain high, according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The centre said there were 349,235 apprentices and trainees in-training as at 31 December 2021, 16.8 percent higher than at the same time in 2020 and only slightly lower than…
South Australian-based Defence Coating Systems has opened the country’s largest on-site defence coating facility at their Wingfield, Adelaide factory, which has helped them secure a major defence contract. The specialised coating company has been contracted by technology and security company Kongsberg Defence Australia to paint a next generation missile launcher system for the Australian army.…
Deakin and University of Queensland researchers have developed a new non-flammable electrolyte material for use in sodium batteries, which they believe is a safer and cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Electrolytes in traditional lithium and sodium batteries are commonly flammable, so the discovery published this month in the prestigious journal Nature Materials, could pave the…
Composites manufacturer Quickstep has teamed up with aviation collaboration platform Greenbird to further commercialisation of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) in Australia. Greenbird Managing Director Sara Hales said having on board an Australian manufacturing organisation with considerable capabilities was a major step to advancing AAM in Australia. She said: “We want to see Australia making strides…
Wire additive manufacturing (WAM) 3D printing technology developer AML3D has begun AS9100D:2016 quality systems accreditation for its additively manufactured aerospace parts. AS9100D:2016 is one of the highest levels of certification available for manufacturing companies that produce components for aviation, space and defence industries. The process for accreditation is expected to be completed in the second…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $495,000 in funding for a university study of the integration of storage into energy markets with an aim to design efficient incentives for storage operators to enable clearer investment signals for storage. The funding to the Grid Innovation Hub at the Monash Energy Institute at Monash University…
Austal’s bold move to invest in steel shipbuilding at its Mobile, Alabama shipyard continues to pay off with the company awarded further construction contracts from the US Navy. Austal has been awarded a $225.5 million contract option for the construction of two additional Navajo-class Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ships (T-ATS), adding to two previous contracted…
