Global Road Technology gets distribution deal with TotalEnergies

Queensland engineering technology company Global Road Technology has announced a new partnership with TotalEnergies Marketing Australia, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE. TotalEnergies’ will become exclusive distributor of GRT’s suite of dust suppression products, designed to stabilise soil while stopping the spread of airborne particulate pollution at mine sites. GRT manufactures a wide range of dust…

Trajan expands with US software acquisition

Global analytical science and device company Trajan Group Holdings has made another acquisition, this time of a specialised software business from California-based Sierra Analytics. The Ringwood, Victoria company’s US subsidiary has entered into an agreement to buy Sierra’s HDExaminer software operations for $623,000. The software is used in Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) which…

Corvus to boost precision manufacture with MMI funds

Melbourne-based Corvus Technology Solutions will install high precision machinery at its’ defence manufacturing facility in Victoria, utilising recently announced funding in the first round of the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI). This will enable Corvus to produce a large number of precision parts and tooling with very high accuracy and consistency for the defence,…

Orbital broadens customer base, boosts revenue

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) engine manufacturer Orbital Corporation has announced a revenue boost from efforts to broaden its customer base. Orbital reported today first half revenue of $14.1 million, up from $11.2 million in the previous corresponding period. The Perth company, once focused a single customer, Boeing’s In situ division, is now building engines or…

Zero Automotive delivers third minesite electric vehicle

Zero emission transport developer Zero Automotive has delivered its third Australian-built, solar chargeable, underground-ready battery electric light vehicle (bELV, pictured). The ZED70 Ti traytop utility, using LTO battery technology which does not suffer from thermal runaway, was delivered to IGO Ltd’s Nova nickel-copper-cobalt operation in Western Australia. This is the second vehicle conversion, and the…