Profiles of success: the manufacturer making dumb machines smarter
If you’re not a digital business, believes Movus co-founder Brad Parsons, then in a few years you will be out of business.
Milestone for frigate upgrade
The Warship Asset Management Agreement (WAMA) Alliance has hit a milestone in the upgrading of Australia’s Anzac class frigates, with the removal of the mast of HMAS Arunta. The mast is being removed at BAE Systems’ Henderson shipyard in Western Australia and is a crucial part of the class’s midlife capability assurance programme. WAMA Alliance’s…
Now Holden plans to close even its head office
First Holden exited Australian manufacturing. Now it is apparently considering closing its Australian subsidiary entirely, shutting its office and handing over distribution of Holden cars to a distributor. If Holden followed this path, revealed in the Australian Financial Review, it would be the final ignominy for ‘Australia’s own car’ that led the market as recently…
Energy from waste plant for paper mill
Australian Paper has been given the environmental tick of approval for a $600 million energy from waste plant to power its La Trobe Valley paper mill. Following a $7.5 million feasibility study, the company announced EPA Victoria has issued a works approval for its Energy From Waste (EfW) proposal. Australian Paper is already the state’s…
Brisbane company joins solar subsidy scheme
Brisbane’s Redbank Technologies has become the first Australian company to be accepted into the South Australian Government’s $100 million Home Battery Scheme. The company’s Australian made Smart Hybrid Inverter is one of ten brands of battery and related products accepted into the scheme which will help up to 40,000 homes install solar photo voltaic (PV)…
Baker Hughes and H2U announce Port Lincoln hydrogen project collaboration
Baker Hughes GE and Hydrogen Utility (H2U) have announced a collaboration on hydrogen power generation in Port Lincoln.
CSR sells Viridian Glass to private equity
Building products group CSR (ASX: CSR) has completed the sale of Australia’s only maker of float glass, Viridian Glass, to private equity business Crescent Capital Partners. In a move which has the potential to disturb the Australian supply chain for glass, Crescent has purchased the troubled business for a reported $150 million. CSR has written…
Stars align for startups at emerging space incubator
A new class of visa and the establishment of the Australian Space Agency headquarters in Adelaide is generating national and global interest in an incubator program for space industry startups.
Where does Australia stand in digital transformation?
Analysis by Peter Roberts Digital technologies giant Dell Technologies released a survey on digital transformation this week that suggested Australia, and its manufacturers, were confident about their path and progress towards a digital future. But on reading the results I am not so sure – perhaps we are further behind than we think. The global…
Meet the Fonzarelli X1 – Australia’s $10,000 super scooter
Sydney company Fonzarelli has launched a performance version of its Australian made electric scooter – the Fonzarelli X1. The scooter, made in Sydney from local and imported parts, sells for $9,890 and is capable of a top speed of 100 KM/H with a range of 80 kilometres. The company, headed by engineer Michelle Nazarri, has…