Defence shipbuilder ASC has been forced to shutdown some of its Adelaide operations following confirmation that one of its staff tested positive for coronavirus. ASC is responsible for sustaining the Collins Class Submarines, employing 1,400 people across three facilities in South Australia and Western Australia. ABC news reported that a building at the company’s Osborne…
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The South Australian Productivity Commission has launched two new inquiries into research and development in a bid to safeguard long-term economic growth in the state.
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A team of engineers at the University of New South Wales has made a quantum computing breakthrough that will simplify control of individual atoms used to store data at the sub-atomic level in nanoelectronic devices. Their study, published yesterday in Nature, reported the team had succeeded in controlling the nucleus of a single atom using…
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Comment by Peter Roberts The federal government has added to frustration about its stance on potential exports of green hydrogen, announcing $40 million in funding to establish a Future Energy Exports (FEnEx) Cooperative Research Centre. The FEnEx CRC, announced alongside a new CRC for Transformations in Mining Economies (CRC TiME), will develop ‘technologies to improve…
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The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre has joined efforts by a group of Queensland companies to develop new lightweight composite rocket tanks. Gilmour Space, the University of Southern Queensland, Protonautics and Graphene Manufacturing Group are hoping to cut the weight of Gilmour’s rockets to deliver payloads of up to 250 kg such as small satellites into…
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Australasian dairy powerhouse a2 Milk will extend its brand into the Canadian milk market through a lcensing deal. Canada’s Agrifoods Cooperative will produce, distribute and market a2 Milk which is taking increasing market share wherever it is sold. a2 Milk CEO Geoffrey Babidge said: “We are very pleased to form this partnership with Agrifoods through…
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Adelaide marine battery and engineering group PMB Defence has been awarded one of the most critical contracts let so far for Australia’s fleet of Attack class submarines. The company and Greece’s Sunlight Systems have been awarded contracts for studies and design of the submarine’s Main Storage Batteries Stages 1 and 2. PMB Defence, formerly Pacific…
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UGL has won contracts worth $180 million to manufacture four railway locomotives and to operate and maintain Adelaide’s north-south tram system. The company, part of the CIMIC Group, will make four locomotives in Newcastle over a period of 18 months for Qube logistics. In a separate contract as part of a consortium, UGL will maintain…
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Large-scale additive manufacturing company Titomic has announced a new partnership with Ascent Aerospace which it believes could disrupt the global tooling industry. Ascent is the largest aerospace tooling supplier in the world and utilises advanced techniques to provide very large, high-quality tool solutions. It also supplies the commercial, defense, and space industries. In a two…
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By Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University The federal government this week signed a deal with the US to access their oil reserves should global supplies be disrupted and we eat into our meagre reserve. Oil security is a hot topic in Australia – we consume more than a decade ago, produce…
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