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Australian needle-free system demonstrates potential for delivering Covid-19 vaccine

TechnologyBy Editor June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

Brisbane-based biotech company Vaxxas has announced evidence their delivery patches show potential in administering Covid-19 vaccine. Preclinical research published on preprint repository BioRxiv showed “significantly enhanced T-cell and spike-specific antibody responses” versus needle-and-syringe delivery in an animal model, and “complete protection from COVID-19 by a single dose skin patch” in a relevant COVID-19 animal model. …

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‘Green steel’ is hailed as the next big thing in Australian industry. Here’s what the hype is all about

Features, TechnologyBy Editor June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

Australia’s abundant and cheap wind and solar resources mean we’re well placed to produce the hydrogen a green steel industry needs. So let’s take a look at how green steel is made, and the challenges ahead.

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Bickfords used Covid to expand exports

Features, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

Diversified beverage company Bickford’s broke the trend away from globalisation during the Covid-19 pandemic, inaugurating exports to eight new countries in the past 12 months. The company, well known for its cordials, has just annnounced its latest new market – Texas. The 175 year old company has begun exporting its new plant-based milk products and…

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Cyber Security and digital twins, a concern – by Michael Haines

Analysis and Commentary, Features, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

Digital twins are the big new thing – design and build a product digitally from a single digital master plan, then operate it and maintain it using the same digital twin. What could possibly go wrong, asks Michael Haines. While it rarely seems to be discussed in the context of ‘Digital Twins’, if we are…

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K-Tig leads a group of Australian industrial technologies

Analysis and Commentary, Features, Manufacturing News, TechnologyBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

By Peter Roberts It is fair to say that Australia is a country that has not always valued its manufacturing sector, yet we seem nowadays to be producing more than our fair share of innovative industrial technologies. A few recent examples to mind: Calix and its low emissions cement and lime production PPK Group and…

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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

Superyacht MY Bold out of the water Perth shipbuilder Silver Yachts has released pictures of its super-yacht MY Bold on the slipway at its Henderson yard south of Perth. The MY Bold was lifted out of the water for service at the yard where it was built in 2019. Silver Yacht boasts a team of…

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ANCA’s surprise move into defence

Defence, Features, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 2, 2021 Leave a comment

Australian machine tool manufacturer ANCA Group could make a surprise foray into the defence sector thanks to Hanwha Defense Australia’s bid to supply armoured vehicles to the army. The Korean company revealed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Korean company Mottrol and ANCA Engineering Solutions of Bayswater in Melbourne. Hanwha will partner with…

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Record Tasmanian showing at Land Forces 2021

DefenceBy Editor June 2, 2021 Leave a comment

Tasmania has sent a record-sized delegation of companies to this year’s Land Forces military expo in Brisbane, the state’s manufacturing minister has announced.

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Champagne of the energy transition: Australia could supply large quantities of green hydrogen as early as 2023

Features, TechnologyBy Editor June 2, 2021 Leave a comment

So far, green hydrogen is only available in homeopathic doses at high prices, which is why it is repeatedly referred to as the “champagne of the energy transition”.

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Orbital UAV delivers first engine to Singapore customer

Defence, Features, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 2, 2021 Leave a comment

Unmanned aircraft engine manufacturer Orbital UAV has delivered the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) engine in a development program for a Singapore defence defence industry customer. The company, which manufactures engines for Boeing offshoot Insitu, is designing, developing and providing initial low-rate manufacturing of multi-fuel engines with the first unit destined for system evaluation and…

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