ABB and Perenti collaborate on mining net zero

Mining services group Perenti and automation and robotics specialist ABB has signed an agreement to collaborate and explore approaches to support net zero emissions targets for underground and open-pit mines. Experts from the two companies will work together to address electrification in mine hauling operations, power distribution, energy efficiency and power management. They plan to…

CSIRO strikes gold as mineral analysis recognised

CSIRO spin-out company Chrysos Corporation has been recognised for the successful commercialisation of PhotonAssay technology, as recipients of the Prime Minister’s 2022 Prize for Innovation. Led by Dr Nick Cutmore, Dr James Tickner and Dirk Treasure the company’s PhotonAssay technology delivers faster, safer, more accurate and environmentally friendly analysis of gold for the minerals industry.…

Australia’s skills ministers meet – and look to the future of VET

Federal and State and Territory Skills and Training Ministers met last week to progress a range of key vocational education and training reform and workforce matters. The Ministers issued a joint statement, below, which sets out their priorities and aspirations for vocational education and training. Skills Ministers’ Priorities Skills Ministers discussed the continued imperative for…

Australia’s place in the semiconductor world – chips show everything wrong about our industrial history

Today in our editorial series on Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Peter Roberts gives an observer’s view of Australian manufacturing over more than four decades, our lost opportunities and where semiconductors could have fitted in. When it comes down to it, the story of disappointment that has been the lack of development of a…

REDARC to supply LED lights for Hunter frigates

REDARC Defence & Space will supply 12,600 LED lights for the first three Hunter class frigates now under construction at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia. The Lonsdale, Adelaide company was awarded the $23 million, five year contract following five years of collaboration with UK company MARL International which will see it lead the…