Today @AuManufacturing launches its special editorial series Land Forces 2022 with a major interview with Defence Industry Minister, Pat Conroy. Here Peter Roberts surveys the lay of the Australian land. As delegates gather in Brisbane this week for Land forces 2022, the top of mind issue for Defence and defence industry is the conflict in…
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Today we launch our special editorial series Land Forces 2022 with a look at the policies of the new federal government guiding Defence’s relationship with industry. In his first major interview, Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for international development & the Pacific, talks with Peter Roberts. Question: The coalition government from 2016…
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Dutch headquartered Ebusco launched both a right-hand drive version of its 2.2 model and its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Melbourne on Friday, and again raised the possibility that it will set up assembly operations in Australia. The 2.0 model is a battery electric bus made in 12.5-metre and 18-metre variants, with a range of 450 kilometres.…
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The Federal Government has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Queensland company NIOA to start acquiring and supplying the next generation of small arms for the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The contract is part of a $500 million plus commitment to provide Australia’s soldiers, sailors and aviators with enhanced lethality weapon systems. The Head Land…
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Curious about what people were most interested in during the week just finished? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. FLINDERS TO CATAPULT INDUSTRY INTO THE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AGE The federal government has had two attempts to mimic the success of Britain’s Catapult centres and Germany’s Fraunhofer technology and innovation centres, places where industrial…
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The defence industry was worth $8.9 billion to the Australian economy in the 2020/21 financial year, an increase of 5.7 per cent versus the previous year and representing 0.46 per cent of the nation’s gross value added, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The figures are from the ABS’s Australian Defence…
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Additive manufacturing manufacturer Amaero International has revamped its senior leadership team and dumped plans to build a titanium powder manufacturing facility in Victoria. The company did not give a reason for dumping the plant, except to say that it was the outcome of a strategic review, now completed. As recently as June this year Amaero…
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Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley, has released a paper that charts Australia’s success in quantum technologies, and highlights lessons for helping scale up other sectors, critical to shaping Australia’s industries over the next two decades. Dr Foley said: “We need to think beyond the technology – and focus on developing the people aspects as…
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has launched the $43 million Industrial Energy Transformation Studies Programme aimed at identifying opportunities to reduce energy costs and emissions in the industrial sector. Announced as part of the 2020-21 Federal Budget, grant funding will be provided in two streams for feasibility and engineering studies to establish the business…
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Dust control specialists Global Road Technology (GRT) has automated its SMART Dosing Units (SDU) for dust suppression in the mining sector amid government calls for tighter controls around dust pollution. Tested in mine sites in Australia, the SMART (Sustainable, Mining, Autonomously, Reporting Technology) Dosing Units are in use in countries across Africa, Mexico and Brazil…
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