Space industry startup Quasar Satellite Technologies has raised $12 million to commercialise a breakthrough technology that allows ground stations to communicate with hundreds of satellites at once. With ground stations typically talking to a single satellite, Quasar’s technology based on CSIRO’s phased array research will communicate with the thousands of nanosatellites now entering low earth…
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By Peter Roberts Defence, space and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has reported March quarter results which confirm its progress towards becoming a genuine Australian sovereign defence prime contractor. In Australia our companies are considered at best suppliers to overseas defence primes, but the Canberra company’s 2020 results confirmed in the latest quarter suggest it…
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As @AuManufacturing continues our editorial series – Celebrating Australian Made – Alexander Gosman gives us a sobering review of national industry policy, and poses the question whether we are doing enough to reverse what has been a long-term decline in the sector. Disruptions to supply chains through Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted major gaps in Australia’s…
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Husband and wife couple Jordy and Julia Kay began manufacturing what is Australia’s first and only certified home compostable cling wrap overseas, but have since onshored production to a Melbourne factory the couple are proud to say is fully solar powered. Their Great Wrap product, which is essentially indistinguishable from the carbon-intensive original, is manufactured…
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Australian governments are busy designing the nation’s transition to a clean energy future. Unfortunately, in a misguided effort to ensure electricity supplies remain affordable and reliable, governments are considering a move that would effectively pay Australia’s old, polluting coal-fired power stations to stay open longer.
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In a late addition to our Fibres and composites transforming industry series, Dr Nishar Hameed explains how graphene’s properties have seen it emerge as a candidate for electromagnetic interference shielding in composites.
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Manufacturing achieved its seventh straight month of growth in April, and its quickest rate of expansion in three years according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index.
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Perth international shipbuilder Austal is to exit its joint venture in China which has operated only since 2016. The company, which builds multi-hulled aluminium ferries in Australia and Asia and warships for the US Navy, announced it was planning to sell its 40 per cent stake in Aulong Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Guandong Jianglong Shipbuilding of…
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Today @AuManufacturing kicks off our new editorial series – Celebrating Australian Made – leading up to Australian Made Week (24 to 30 May). Here Jake Dingle, CEO of carbon fibre road wheel manufacturer Carbon Revolution, explains how his company’s factory investment shows that Australian advanced manufacturing is not dead, but just getting started. There is…
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Today @AuManufacturing launches our latest editorial series – Celebrating Australian Made – leading up to Australian Made Week (24 May to 30 May). Here Peter Roberts looks at the value of Australian Made. When my family arrived in Australia as migrants from the United Kingdom I remember our taxi driver tapping the dashboard of his…
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