AML3D has announced a $190,000 order from ExxonMobil Asia Pacific that will see the Adelaide company create the world’s biggest additively manufactured commercial pressure vessel, to be used at a refinery.
Cold spray additive manufacturing business Titomic has announced the completed installation of one of their machines at the TWI research institute near Cambridge, England, where it will play “a key role” in the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) program. The machine, a TKF1000 additive manufacturing system, would be used to create industrial-scale parts and complex surface…
Integrated steel manufacturing, distribution and recycling business InfraBuild has increased the throughput rate of its billet caster at its Rooty Hill, Sydney Steel Mill, boosting efficiencies and promising benefits for its customers. The company, which operates electric arc furnaces in Sydney and Laverton, Melbourne, conducted an engineering study with the billet caster’s Original Equipment Manufacturer…
Australian clean energy company MGA Thermal has unveiled the first stage of its new commercial manufacturing facility in Newcastle, New South Wales to meet demand for its novel energy storage materials. The company’s core technology is a recently invented type of thermal storage material, Miscibility Gap Alloys (MGA, pictured), which are capable of storing a…
Western Australian companies Boundary Power and Hybrid Systems Australia have been awarded contracts to deliver over 180 standalone power systems, which will replace 762 kilometres of power lines in the state.
The Australian National Audit Office has severely criticised the design and management of the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources government’s largest value procurement program in 2019-20. In a scathing report tabled in Parliament, the ANAO said the $492.4 million Entrepreneurs Programme failed on most of the criteria demanded of government grant schemes. Tenders…
Hazer Group has announced completion of construction and commissioning activities at its methane-to-hydrogen commercial demonstration plant (CDP) at its Woodman Point water treatment plant.
Austrian-owned C4i Pty Ltd has boasted of a 37 per cent rise in its hardware and software systems exports in a single year. The Melbourne business said in a statement it had achieved the largest value of export orders in its history, with orders reaching $33.6 million. C4i delivers Secure Communication System technology to the…
Australia has a rare opportunity to reset its manufacturing sector. But it must get the IR settings right argues Michael Stutley. Since the 1960s peak, Australian manufacturing has been in decline. In the protected economy of that period, it generated over a quarter of GDP and employed about 25 per centof the workforce. Today, manufacturing’s…
Queensland electronics company BIA5 and automation company Cyborg Dynamics Engineering have produced their first three Warfighter unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) Product Baseline 1 (PBL01) vehicles destined for defence. The companies were awarded up to $426,150 in funding under the Department of Defence’s Sovereign Industrial Capability Priorities (SICP) scheme to design, manufacture and test the UGV.…