Perth heavy engineering firm Civmec has won a major new contract with miner Rio Tinto to further develop Rio’s Mesa A iron ore operations hub in the Robe Valley of Western Australia. Rio is developing three new mines and supporting infrastructure for existing operations at Mesa A and Mesa J mine sties under its Robe…
A round of Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority grants to seven companies and totalling $2.4 million was announced on Friday.
Australia’s only manufacturer of high performance quenched and tempered plate steel products, Bisalloy Steels, is celebrating its 40th year in business with a concerned international push. The Unanderra, NSW company has built on the competitiveness of local steel manufacturing with a distribution push in South East Asia, the UAE and South Africa and an expanding…
Gilmour Space Technologies and Defence Science and Technology have announced an agreement to work together, with this potentially leading to dozens of new jobs this year.
Victorian opposition leader Michael O’Brien has proposed that the state regrow its manufacturing sector through a new $1 billion fund. O’Brien said Victoria had lost 50,000 jobs in the industry over the last two decades, and that the Covid-19 pandemic had exposed the weakness of its supply chains. “This is a rare opportunity to bring manufacturing…
New materials developer Talga Resources has revealed more details of its deal with Bentley Motors to jointly develop a single unit electric vehicle drive train or e-axle. The deal, previously announced in @AuManufacturing, will see the company develop technology and materials with the ultimate aim of creating a new electric motor that utilises aluminium windings…
Defence supplier Safran Electronics has subcontracted Adelaide-based Acacia Systems and Western-Sydney based Thomas Global Systems for the design of the Optronics Search and Attack, Navigation Radar and Navigation Data Distribution systems for the new Attack class submarines to be built in Adelaide.
Trajan’s cutting edge blood sampling technology could soon be helping countries hardest hit by COVID-19.
Lion has announced an increase in efforts to become carbon neutral, made public in November, with a goal of 100 per cent renewable energy powering its breweries by 2025, and initiating a “whole brewery” carbon reduction approach throughout the company and its supply chain.
An event between the Australian and New Zealand defence forces this weekend, titled #ANZDFhack, will focus on novel solutions aimed at strengthening sovereign capability.
