The European Investment Bank (EIB), backed by the InvestEU programme, is granting a €36.7 million loan to Königswarter & Ebell, a German subsidiary of Australian Battery cathode materials producer Pure Battery Technologies (PBT). The project involves construction of a commercial demonstration plant at a brownfield industrial site owned by Königswarter & Ebell in Hagen, Germany…
Welding technology developer K-TIG along with two shipbuilding partners is to demonstrate the suitability of K-TIG technology for the repair and sustainment of US Navy warships. The company has been awarded a research project under the US Navy’s National Shipbuilding Research Program to demonstrate the suitability of its advanced form of Keyhole Tungsten Inert Gas…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is backing the creation of Australia’s largest electric vehicle logistics fleet by supporting the construction of a ‘depot of the future’. ARENA today announced $20.1 million in funding to Team Global Express (Global Express) for the depot project to integrate battery electric vehicles in its transport and logistics operations.…
Airbus Defence and Space has selected the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop high efficiency solar cells to be used in space. A three and a half year research project will help push the performance of photovoltaic solar cells for space to the limit, both in terms of efficiency and radiation stability to…
Construction has begun on the world’s largest radio telescope, the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO,) which is being developed across large areas of outback Western Australia and South Africa. Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic officiated at the ground-breaking ceremony on Wajarri Yamaji Country, 800 kilometres north of Perth yesterday. An international…
ATSpace has confirmed they are ready to launch two of their Kestrel I rockets before the end of the year after a planned launch in November was postponed due to severe weather. Under permissions granted by the Australian Space Agency, launch services company Southern Launch and AT Space will aim to launch both the VS02…
The federal and NSW Governments have signed a 12-month Skills Agreement to address the current skills shortage and deliver Fee Free TAFE and more vocational education places in the state. The $319 million agreement will deliver a significant boost to the NSW skills and training sector, supporting approximately 120,000 Fee Free TAFE and vocational education…
By Peter Roberts The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has moved to demonstrate he is serious about acting to cut ballooning electricity prices before Christmas – as he has promised – with feelers put out to the states for price caps to be applied to coal and gas. It is about time because all the months…
By Peter Roberts Few remember the time when Australia had an extensive wool processing, spinning and weaving sector, but producers have begun eyeing the possibility that those days may yet come again. Part of the textile clothing sector, the wool value chain was decimated by cheap Chinese competition, but also by predatory trade policies that…
Building products group Adbri has accelerated the review of the ballooning cost of its $199 million investment in upgrading its Kwinana cement plant in Western Australia. The project will consolidate Adbri’s two existing cement production sites into a single operation serving the WA market, however it is being reviewed following the appointment of Interim CEO…
