Advanced technology investor PPK Group’s portfolio company BNNT Technology Pty Ltd has signed its first defence sector collaboration agreement with survivability systems specialist TenCate Advanced Armor. Entry into this agreement follows two years of continuous improvements by the BNNT team which has led to significant progress in automation and process efficiency, resulting in a material…
Perth shipbuilder Austal has linked with Saildrone Inc. to jointly identify opportunities to collaborate on the manufacture of 20 metre Saildrone Surveyor uncrewed surface vehicles (USV, pictured) in Australia, for deployments in the Indo-Pacific region. According to Austal, US-based Saildrone is the world leader in long-endurance USVs, having amassed nearly one million miles and 25,000…
Australian solar system manufacturer 5B has been appointed as the technology provider for a 10.1MWp solar system that will form part of a 21.4MWp solar power project that AES El Salvador is constructing for Holcim El Salvador’s El Ronco cement plant. When operational, the new solar power plant will generate 21 per cent of the…
The federal government will provide a total of $4.6 million in grants to boost education and collaboration in the nation’s quantum sector. As part of the new funding, the Australian Quantum Graduates Program will award $3.6 million to CSIRO to fund up to 20 PhDs in quantum technology. Announcing the grants, Minister for Industry and…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced $50 million for two funding rounds targeting research and development (R&D) for renewable hydrogen and low emissions iron and steel. Funding for successful research projects will be provided over two phases, with an initial laboratory-based research phase followed by a commercialisation phase aimed at scaling up and…
As manufacturers nationwide cry out for staff the federal government is tackling one of the root causes of the problem – a lack of foundational learning skills in the Australian workforce. Minister for Skills and Training, Brendan O’Connor announced a new foundational skills study by Jobs and Skills Australia into critical skills such as the…
Fast DC electric vehicle charger manufacturer Tritium DCFC has announced that EV charger installer KuroEV has purchased Tritium fast chargers to be deployed across Malaysia. With only 600 charging stations currently available for the over 10,000 EVs registered in the country, Tritium’s entry into the Malaysian market comes at a crucial time. However did not…
Mining group Iron Road has selected Amp Energy as lead green hydrogen developer for its Cape Hardy green hydrogen project located on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The hub, which is expected to attract billions of dollars’ worth of investment and more than 1,000 jobs when fully operational, will accommodate the green field development…
Sharemarket analysts Pitt Street Research have released a positive appraisal of medical imaging company Imagion Biosystems and its MagSense non-radioactive and safe diagnostic imaging technology. Specialised MagSense nanoparticles are coated with tumour targeting antibodies and can be administered by simple intravenous injection. Weak, but highly sensitive magnetic fields are used to locate the nanoparticles which…
The Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) has announced Australia’s first sodium-sulphur (NAS) battery has been installed at the IGO Nova nickel-copper-cobalt mine site. The 250 kW/1.45 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) demonstration unit will provide long-duration storage, according to FBICRC Chief Executive Officer Shannon O’Rourke. O’Rourke said: “The NAS battery technology is…
