Defence technology and engineering solutions provider KBR is to deliver sustainment services supporting the Australian Defence Force’s satellite communications service. The company has been selected as the industry partner to sustain Aggregated Monitoring and Control (AM&C) of Satellite Earth Stations. The programme of work will be supported by specialist Australian SME Blacktree Technology and US…
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Melbourne-based ElectraLith Pty Ltd has announced that its next-generation DLE-RTM technology has successfully produced battery grade lithium hydroxide from very concentrated brines known as Salar brines, geothermal oilfield brines and spodumene (lithium ore) leach. The technology, Backed by Rio Tinto, IP Group and Monash University, included production of 99.9 percent pure lithium hydroxide from a…
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By Peter Roberts Much of Australia’s modesty sized steel sector was born through the adversity of distance from established suppliers and the threat Japan posed to Australia during WW2. Since then there has been some development of electric arc furnaces utilising scrap as a feedstock, but otherwise Japan, then Korea and China have swamped Australian…
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The final tranche of the Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Seed pilot program has been announced, with funding totalling approximately $11 million awarded to 36 projects that are between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 and TRL 5. AEA said in a statement on Monday that the grants focus on three of the federal government’s priority areas for…
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Shipbuilder Austal has been awarded a $84.4 million fixed-priced contract modification for the construction of two additional Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 1700-class vessels (pictured) for the United States Navy. The contract modification brings the total number of LCU scheduled or under construction at Austal USA to five of a class that the USN originally envisaged…
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The federal government has delivered on its promise of more rapid defence decision making, accelerating the manufacture of the Ghost Shark underwater autonomous vehicle for undersea surveillance, reconnaissance and strike at a new factory to be built in Australia. The government has already spent $90 million along with Anduril Industries developing the very large autonomous…
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Following last week’s hearings in Hobart, the House Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources heads to Melbourne to listen to witnesses including Pact Group, Australian Dairy Products Federation and Food Frontier on Wednesday. The eighth public hearings in the inquiry into food and beverage manufacturing will run from 9:00 a to 2:30 pm (AEST)…
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UNSW Sydney engineering researchers have created a system based on a solar PV panel and a photocatalyst, able to create ammonia from wastewater and likened to a leaf. According to a statement from the university on Monday, a team led by UNSW Scientia Professor Rose Amal and Professor Xiaojing Hao used a “nano-structured thin layer…
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By Peter Roberts Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has topped off a national tour of green energy projects across the country with the inauguration of a community battery in Bondi, New South Wales. Flanked by CEOs Marc England of Ausgrid, Frank Calabria of Origin and Mark Collett of Energy Australia he revealed that…
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LoomTex Pty Ltd has survived in business for a century to become Australia’s last woollen furnishing textile weaving mill and dye house. Now with a name change the company, a joint venture between Instyle Contract Textiles and Colan Australia, has a vision to become one of the most innovative and sustainable textile manufacturers in Australia.…
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