South Australian water authority SA Water has asked thermal energy storage company 1414 Degrees to have its GAS-TESS syetsm installed at Adelaide’s Glenelg Wastewater Treatment Plant operational by the end of October.. This is in preparation for for electricity export to the grid as an embedded generator on the National Electricity Market. The Glenelg plant…
Canberra’s Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has been awarded a $94 million contract to supply 251 Remote Weapon Stations to equip the army’s Bushmaster and Hawkei armoured vehicles. Delivery, which will run from December this year for a year, is part of a weapons standardisation project and will provide increased lethality to the army’s protected mobility…
Water and wastewater treatment company De.mem has won its first-ever order for a membrane water purification system from the electric power generation sector. The $400,000 order will see the Australian and Singaporean company deliver equipment for the generation of pure de-ionised water required for the power generation process. CEO Andreas Kroell said: “This new contract…
Graphite miner and processor EcoGraf has signed options to lease land in the Rockingham Strategic Industrial Area south of Perth for the construction of a $98 million graphite processing plant. The plant will be the first outside China to produce plus 99.95 per cent pure spherical graphite which is used to produce the anodes for…
Comment by Peter Roberts The sooner Australia takes real action to move towards an electric vehicle future, the better. This is clear now with two pieces of news – the UK will ban diesel and petrol cars from 2030, and the revelation of the lie we are living clinging onto fossil fuelled vehicles. While Australia’s…
Kerry Stokes Seven Group Holdings has tightened its grip on ailing building products group Boral, and may in effect already control the company. Boral announced major changes to its board with four new members, two of whom were nominated by seven, which now holds 19.9 per cent of the business. Ryan Stokes and Richard Richards’…
Additive manufacturing specialist AML3D has shipped a stainless steel marine propeller to 3D Printing Corporation, a Japanese based 3D printing consultancy firm. The 316L propeller (pictured) will be made available to 3DPC’s marine clients as a ‘showpiece’ to demonstrate the advantages of AML3D’s Wire Arc Manufacturing (“WAM®”) technology over the traditional casting methods. The company…
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and medical device company OncoBeta GmbH are to partner to manufacture a new radioisotope at Lucas Heights in New South Wales for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs). They have signed a Letter of Intent to establish manufacturing and distribution in Australia for OncoBeta’s novel Rhenium-SCT…
EDITORIAL – by the editors, @AuManufacturing news There is a lot of concern in the community about the declining quality of the media in Australia, but what is being seen in the reporting of national affairs is nothing compared to what has happened to specialist press such as industry news. Hardly a week goes by…
The hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will bring some good by forcing companies to re-engineer supply chains from overseas to local sources is real, according to electronics manufacturer and assembler Circuitwise Electronics Manufacturing. While local manufacturers turned to the half dozen large Australian printed circuit board makers at the height of pandemic disruption, the first…