By Peter Roberts The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese outlined at the National Press Club yesterday the government’s policies for industry – essentially encompassing skills development, energy price reduction and stimulating green technologies, the National Reconstruction Fund and the Aukus pact. He linked these together as part of as the ‘structural changes that I’ve outlined today…
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Laser enrichment technology company Global Laser Enrichment is considering accelerating the commercialisation of its Silex laser enrichment technology to take advantage of an emerging global nuclear fuel supply chain. The company, owned by Silex Systems and Canada’s Cameco Corporation, are planning to build a facility in Kentucky to process and re-enrich over 200,000MtU of Department…
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Bega Group will close its Griffith, Canberra dairy factory and move manufacture to the company’s Penrith, NSW site, citing inefficiencies in logistics due to a lack of dairy farms in the Australian Capital Territory. The move follows a review by Bega, which said the Griffith plant (formerly known as Capitol Chilled Foods) had been operating…
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A new survey by market research firm Roy Morgan for the Australian Made Campaign has looked at the sentiments of consumers purchasing locally-made products, finding that six out of every seven shoppers said buying Australian products was important to them. Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine said that buying Australian-made created a strong emotional response for…
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Caravan manufacturing in Australia has enjoyed its best sales since the 1970s, with 28,031 new units sold in Australia last year. A desire to reconnect with the outdoors drove sales of locally-made caravans to increase by 17.1 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year, while Australians also upped purchases of imports by 8.4…
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Leading health bodies have backed calls for the banning of engineered stone commonly used in kitchens and bathrooms as well as industry which has been linked to the lung disease silicosis. The call came from a powerful group – The Lung Foundation Australia, Thoracic Society of Australia, Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine…
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Australian rocket company Black Sky Aerospace (BSA) has successfully launched a prototype long-range training missile from the back of a privately owned Mercedes Benz Unimog truck. The 3.7 met long, 229mm diameter TM229 ‘Cyclone’ training missile was fired remotely from a custom weapon pod, all of which were manufactured in Australia, and mounted on the…
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Industrial technology company Calix has announced that its subsidiary Leilac focusing on decarbonisation of cement and lime manufacture, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Heirloom, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company. The partnership between Leilac and Heirloom, whose investors include Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Microsoft, brings together two leading climate technologies…
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Austin Engineering awarded $5 million for advanced manufacturing Perth mining equipment manufacturer Austin Engineering has been awarded a grant of up to $5 million from the WA government’s Investment Attraction Fund to boost advanced manufacturing capabilities at its Kewdale plant. The IAF seeks to bring investment, jobs and economic diversity to the state, increasing local…
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By Grant Douglas, CSIRO There are around 440 nuclear power plants operating in 32 countries around the world, supplying some 10% of the world’s electricity. Another 60 reactors are under construction, and 300 more are proposed. Australia has only one reactor, used for research and medical purposes. But Australia typically produces more than 5,000 tonnes…
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