In the first part of a two-part series we consider the importance of scaleup manufacturers. Brent Balinski spoke to some fast-growing manufacturers and other experts about the subject. Adam Gilmour describes himself and his team as “super-busy” assembling an orbital launch vehicle and launch site when asked. Gilmour Space Technologies has been focussed on rockets…
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HMAS Ballarat gets its new mast HMAS Ballarat recently received a brand new mast that will provide its sailors with a new Australian manufactured L-Band high power active phase array radar, and an integrated ‘friend and foe’ capability. The new radar, with CEA Technologies’ CEAFAR and CEAMOUNT phased array radars, are becoming standard on Australian…
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Trafigura-owned Nyrstar Australia – which operates smelters at Port Pirie in South Australia and Hobart, Tasmania – released its Economic Value Report Summary for 2022 on Friday, calculating its total value to the Australian economy at $1.7 billion. The metals processor counted support for 6,400 full-time equivalent jobs and $838 million in direct spending in…
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Analytical and life sciences products manufacturer Trajan Scientific and Medical has announced that the pediatric centre at Budapest, Hungary’s Semmelweis University will use the company’s blood microsampling devices in a neonate research study. According to a statement on Thursday, its Neoteryx Mitra microsampling device enables collection of blood samples less than one-tenth of the sample…
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Food manufacturer SPC, packaging manufacturer Visy and Rinoldi Pasta have joined together to manufacture and supply pantry staples to Australia’s largest food relief charity, Foodbank for vulnerable Australian individuals and families. The companies produced 230,000 cans of Spaghetti and Tomatoes at the SPC Factory in Shepparton for those in need, and hosted a site tour…
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A truly innovative decarbonisation project has got underway in the cotton growing region of Moree in New South Wales where growers plan to make their own fertilisers locally using locally produced green hydrogen. Green hydrogen company Hiringa Energy and agricultural and pastoral enterprise Sundown Pastoral Co have been awarded $35.8 million in funding from NSW…
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By Peter Roberts The news has been full of worrying stories of late that the climate might be at that dreaded tipping point where runaway climate dislocation is really going to start affecting us in our everyday life – including the ability to carry on business as normal. From Australia’s terrible bushfires only a few…
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Australian owned munitions manufacturer NIOA has installed cutting edge ballistics data acquisition technology capable of measuring real-time projectile velocity and location at the company’s Brisbane range facility. NIOA Australia’s General Manager – Engineering Rudi Bekker said the technology was a gamechanger in weapon and ammunition performance testing, taking accuracy diagnostics to the next level. Bekker…
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Perth’s Hazer Group believes it has overcome obstacles to a 2023 start up of its commercial demonstration plant (CDP) to produce clean hydrogen from biomass in Perth. The project at the Western Australian Water Board’s Woodman Point wastewater treatment plant has faced escalating costs and equipment failures, including in 2022 of a heat exchanger at…
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Energy storage company MGA Thermal has announced the raise of a further $8.25 million, including from existing investors Main Sequence, Varley Holdings and Melt Ventures, as it prepares to commission a demonstration unit for its thermal energy storage system. “We’re proud of our work and support received to date from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency…
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