The world’s largest 3D metal printer is being used to create a functioning rocket. This video from Titomic (ASX: TTT) adds to earlier reports in @AuManufacturing news of the uses being found for its Titomic Kinetic Fusion process (TKF) 3D printers. Picture/Video: Titomic Subscribe to our free @AuManufacturing newsletter here.
THC Global Group (ASX: THC) has announced it has begin harvesting a cannabis crop in preparation for a November start to manufacturing cannaboid-based medicinal products. The crop at Eden Farms, Bundy in Queensland is destined for the company’s factory at Southport near the Gold Coast to be turned into Cannedo brand product. As reported in…
Hilton Foods Australia has unveiled its $280m state of the art meat production facility in Heathwood, Queensland. The investment is underpinned by Hilton’s long term national supply partnership with Woolworths and will provide ongoing employment to around 650 Queenslanders. The Heathwood facility will produce the highest quality finished fresh meat products for more than 450…
Analysis by Peter Roberts The number of students in government-funded training in Australian has shown a rare rise, after years of bad news for vocational training in Australia. A report by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows a rise in government-funded students this year. However the research organisation warns that the rise…
Coca Cola Amatil has signed a heads of agreement with waste processor Veolia to explore opportunities to build a recycled plastics processing plant in Australia. The plant would reprocess PET bottles, which is already being reused as a raw material to make products such as carpet tiles. CCA has already moved to manufacture smaller bottles…
Renewable energy company Neoen is expanding its 100MW/129MWh Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, strengthening its position as the largest utility scale battery in the world.
Australian dairy producer Bega Cheese (ASX: BGA) is in Victoria’s Supreme Court fighting a dispute over the use of its brand names with NZ dairy co-operative Fonterra. According to a report in abc.net.au, Bega and Fonterra are at loggerheads over a 2002 branding rights deal which gave Fonterra rights to the Bega Cheese brand. Bega…
University of Wollongong researchers have created a new material that could lead to better performance in next-generation, large-scale batteries. The team – led by chief investigators Dr Yunxiao Wang and Associate Professor Shulei Chou from UOW’s Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials – had their research published in Nature Communications and featured in the journal’s…
Ticketing business TMA Group launched a new manufacturing, design and logistics centre in Melbourne’s west on Monday, which it says will employ 100 by 2022.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer and clinical trials group IDT Australia (ASX: IDT) is confident of better times ahead following a flat 2019 which saw revenue down on the previous year. The company, which manufactures pharmaceutical active ingredient and consumer dosage products, as well as conducting clinical trials, has recovered from an adverse situation with the US FDA…
