Cash boost for big South Australian green ammonia project
A project to build the world’s largest green ammonia plant in South Australia has been launched.
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Govt releases ‘plain English’ R&D tax guide
By Denham Sadler New “plain English” guidance for the research and development tax incentive has been released, providing new definitions for “hypothesis” and “new knowledge” and further information on the record keeping required under the scheme. The new Guide to Interpretation, an update on the document first published in 2016, comes just weeks after the federal…
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GMG completes oversubscribed Series C round ahead of planned Canadian listing
Graphene manufacturer and solutions provider Graphene Manufacturing Group has announced completion of a $3 million Series C raise, with just over $1.7 million from TSXV-listed capital pool company Cuspis Capital of Canada.
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Air Fab gets $1.3 million Boeing Defence Australia contract to build work platforms
Air Fab has been awarded a $1.3 million contract with Boeing Defence Australia to design, fabricate and supply safety stands used in maintaining the Air Force’s Air Force’s F/A-18F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growler planes.
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Working smarter with data – seizing the opportunity by Sercan Altun
@AuManufacturing’s new series, ‘Working smarter with data‘, continues today with electronics engineer Sercan Altun, who maps out the digital transformation challenges on offer in Australia’s transition to an industry 4.0 economy. Manufacturing has always been the essential driver of the wealth and prosperity of nations since the first industrial revolution in the late 18th century…
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High-tech nanotube payoff for Micro-X
Comment by Peter Roberts Things don’t get much better in the tech field than a technology company that has mastered carbon fibre nanotubes to make a step-change in a technology around for more than a century. But for Micro-X, the Adelaide company that has developed the world’s only nanotube X-ray emitter, that mastery is the…
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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed
Green Distillation Technologies doubles size of Warren tyre recycling plant Australian tyre recycler Green Distillation Technologies will double the production capacity of their plant at Warren in Western New South Wales with the installation of an additional processing module. Construction of the module, which turns end-of-life tyres into high value oil, carbon and steel, is…
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THG enters vanadium redox flow battery business
Strategic metals company TNG Ltd has launched a new vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) business unit as part of the vertical integration of its flagship Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory. The strategy further diversifies the company’s green energy interests and will capitalise on the planned production of high-purity vanadium pentoxide from Mount…
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Lynas takes delivery of industrial dryer
Rare earths producer Lynas Corp has taken delivery of a 14-metre long, industrial scale dryer which will process ores at its Mt Weld mining and concentrating operations in Western Australia. The indirect fired rotary dryer will reduce the moisture content prior to transportation to the company’s advanced material plant in Malaysia and the proposed Lynas…
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New German-Australian minesite electric vehicle charging station
West Australian mining services supplier Murray Engineering and Siemens have collaborated to develop a high-powered electric vehicle charging station (pictured) for use at mines both below and above ground. The vehicle agnostic charging stations will first be used to power a new light electric vehicle (eLV) being designed and manufactured by Murray Engineering to handle…
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