Greenwashing is on the rise, and Australia’s regulations system for monitoring ‘green’ claims by manufacturers is not fit for purpose. Here Helen Millicer dissects the issues, and points to a system where claimed environmental benefits can be trusted by consumers and companies alike. Every day we see yet another company claiming environmental benefits with their…
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South Australian space companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at launching a rocket and a spacecraft with an interfaced electronic warfare payload from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex (WWOLC) near Port Lincoln on Eyre Peninsula.. Spaceport operator Southern Launch, ATSpace Australia, Asension (formerly DEWC Systems), and Inovor Technologies will utilise ATSpace’s…
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Energy Storage Industries – Asia Pacific (ESI) has begun construction Australia’s first large-scale iron flow battery manufacturing facility.. A sod-turning ceremony in Maryborough marked the commencement of works at the site of what Deputy Premier Dr Steven Miles said would be a $70 million, state-of-the-art big battery manufacturing centre Dr Miles said: “Energy storage is…
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Federal government ministers have committed the government to supporting the development of Australian defence industries and to collaboration between government and industry. The commitment was made by Minister for defence Richard Marles and minister for defence industry Pat Conroy at a defence industry roundtable event in Adelaide today. Marles, who is also deputy prime minister,…
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Australian-based Additive Manufacturing or 3D printing technologies can solve some of these significant challenges, especially for industrial and large-scale parts supply, AML3D explains in this edition of our Frontiers in additive manufacturing series.
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A deliberate focus on in-house production and teamwork will be critical in bringing a world-first atomic-scale integrated circuit to commercial reality, and doing it in Australia, say the team behind the breakthrough. The Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) team, led by 2018 Australian of the Year Professor Michelle Simmons, has had their work published in the prestige…
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A list of finalists has been published for the annual Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards, which has been running since 2001. Announced on Wednesday, the finalists are: Amaero Additive Manufacturing (Notting Hill) Australian Defence Apparel (East Bendigo) Care Essentials (North Geelong) Coolon (Hallam) Dual Chelate Fertilizer (Robinvale) Duratray International (Bayswater) Elastomers Australia (Airport West)…
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Today our Frontiers in additive manufacturing editorial series looks at the emerging field of 4D printing. Dr Ali Zolfagharian explains. Additive manufacturing (AM) technology – involving materials built up layer-by-layer, and also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing – was first developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by different scientists and engineers around the…
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Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has successfully completed its second commercial rocket launch with NASA from its Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory. A NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched at 11:17 pm ACST July 6, 2022. The launch was for the Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from…
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Electro Optic Systems subsidiary EOS Defense Systems USA (EOSDS USA) has been selected by the US Air Force as one of a group of companies allowed to compete for US$950 million worth of defence department contracts. The company will compete over a three year peripd, with a further five optional years, under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity…
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