Tech heavyweights head to Adelaide for SouthStart
More than 90 tech innovators and entrepreneurs, executives and thought leaders from around the world are in Adelaide to speak at the two-day SouthStart Conference this week.
Tasmanian family-owned hemp business to list on ASX
Tasmanian company 13 Seeds looks set to be another listed Australian hemp business, and is aiming for an IPO of up to $6 million, to be completed by next month.
Government code to boost security of consumer IoT
By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia The Australian Government has followed the UK’s lead, producing a voluntary code of practice for suppliers of consumer IoT devices. Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton said the code of practice, had been developed drawing on the technical expertise of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), aligned with guidance provided…
Austral navy ship finally exercises with RAN
It has been a long time coming but an Australian-designed aluminium trimaran warship built by Austal (ASX: ASB) has finally exercised with Royal Australian Navy ships. The Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet announced that the USS Montgomery (LCS 8), an Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designed and constructed by Austal in Alabama, had successfully conducted operations…
Bombora to deliver wave power in Spain
Perth wave power manufacturer Bombora Wave Power is to install a wave power station at Lanzarote, a remote island in Spain’s Canary Islands. The company has advertised for an experienced engineer to handle procurement and construction of the project, which will deliver the grid connected wave energy system. The company’s submerged nWave, wave enegy converter…
Innovation competitions are the next big thing. Here are 8 ways to make them work
For centuries, human beings have relied on patents to encourage and protect innovation. The electric light was patented, the phonograph, television, WiFi and Nespresso capsules.
Graphene set to change the future, but Australian commercialisation needs incentivisation
The nanomaterial graphene holds vast industrial possibilities, but more incentives are needed to commercialise world-leading Australian research, the Graphene + Enabled Smart Cities Conference heard yesterday. Chair of the Australian Graphene Industry Association Chris Gilbey said in his opening remarks at yesterday’s event that graphene was a critical ingredient in the “smart cities” of the…
Melbourne 3D printer manufacturer demos new machine in Germany, claims speed record
Melbourne company SPEE3D has demonstrated the “world’s fastest live print of a metal part” at the Formnext 3D printing expo in Frankfurt, Germany.
Titomic 3D prints a rocket – video
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 begins cannabis harvest, plans medicinal manufacture
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…