The Queensland government has completed its acquisition of the Rockhampton railyards from freight rail transport company Aurizon, which shut them in 2018, and has flagged a potential future in rail supply chain manufacturing and hydrogen R&D. The workshops were sold by a previous Labor government in 2010 as part of a privatisation program, with the…
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Austal delivers 15th Guardian class patrol boat Perth shipbuilder Austal has delivered its 15th Guardian class Patrol Boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defence. The vessel, Te Kukupa II (pictured), was then gifted by Canberra to the Cook Islands at a certificate signing ceremony held at Austal’s shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. The ceremony…
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The first story in our second Celebrating Australian Made editorial series is EFC Manufacturing Co, the maker of an Australian invention which has been keeping garments fuzz-free for decades. By Brent Balinski.
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Helping launch our second Celebrating Australian Made editorial series, today we get another look into Australia’s biggest manufacturing project underway at the Osborne naval shipyard in Adelaide. Here we show the latest video of prototype production underway for the Hunter class frigate build. There is no bigger manufacturing project underway in Australia than BAE Systems…
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Today we launch our second Celebrating Australian Made editorial series, running this week and next. By Brent Balinski.
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Infant formula manufacturer Bubs Australia has stepped in to supply 1.25 million cans of infant formula to the United States in a development even hailed by US President Biden. The company, which is an experienced exporter throughout Asia and China through daigou and e-commerce channels, has increased production at its Dandenong, Victoria plant to supply…
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Biomedical engineering researcher Professor Sally McArthur (pictured) has been named the new Director of Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials.
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Metal additive manufacturing company Titomic has made the first sale into the Asia Pacific region of its recently acquired product line, the D523 System. The system was sold to D&C Coating in Singapore, a surface engineering repair service servicing the oil and gas sector. The system is portable and can rapidly deposit metals to restore…
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Energy and vanadium pentoxide producer QEM Ltd has successfully commissioned a pilot plant to test the production of oil shale and vanadium pentoxide from resources at the Julia Creek Project in north western Queensland. The pilot plant (pictured) was installed at the Melbourne headquarters of HRL Technology Group and will operate for six months, prior…
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XTEK’s US-based subsidiary HighCom Armor Solutions has received yet another order from an undisclosed customer, this time valued at $US 33.2 million ($46.8 million.) In a statement to the ASX on Friday morning, the defence company said the contract’s value had been prepaid in full, and covers “tens of thousands of individual advanced ballistic protection…
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