Deakin University and PPK Group’s White Graphene subsidiary has secured up to $100,000 in funding to investigate space and aerospace uses for white graphene, which is a unique material made up of sheets of boron nitride. White Graphene won Boeing’s Sustainability in Space Pitch Competition against competition from five young startups at a recent event…
University of Wollongong (UOW) electrochemist Senior Professor Gerhard Swiegers has been named a 2023 Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellow and awarded a grant of $3.7 million to further his research. The funding is for a project to accelerate the decarbonisation of industry by advancing the manufacture of high-efficiency water electrolysers that enable the…
CSIRO appoints new Energy Director Dr Dietmar Tourbier has been appointed Director of Energy at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, following a competitive international recruitment search. Dr Peter Mayfield, CSIRO’s Executive Director for Environment, Energy and Resources, said Tourbier’s appointment comes at a critical juncture for Australia and CSIRO in particular. “Dr Tourbier’s deep industry…
By Peter Roberts Much of the federal government’s 2023 budget has been leaked in advance, but Treasurer Jim Chalmers held back a few morsels including good news for the Industry Growth Centres in his official budget speech delivered in Canberra tonight. In a budget the government characterised as prudent – it predicts a rare surplus…
By Archie Chapman, The University of Queensland There were an estimated 100 million individual solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in Australia at the end of 2022. We estimate this number will likely grow to over 2 billion if we are to meet Australia’s 2050 net-zero emissions target. This growth means Australia is facing a 450,000-tonne mountain…
Vitura Health expands from cannabis to psychedelics Medical cannabis product company Vitura Health has linked with Canadian-based PharmAla Biotech in a new joint venture Cortexa to tackle the emerging psychedelics product market for research and therapeutic use. This follows the decision of the Therapeutic Goods Administration to permit from 1 July the prescribing of MDMA…
Lark boosts whiskey sales and stocks Tasmanian whiskey distiller Lark Distilling continues to build its stock of whiskey, reporting it has 2.35 million litres in stock at the end of the March quarter, up six percent from the December quarter. At the same time it continues to build the age profile of stocks to ‘meet…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) DEFENCE INDUSTRY PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS – SERIES LAUNCH This week @AuManufacturing launched a sponsored series reporting on BAE Systems Australia’s Partnering for success defence industry supplier event, which kicks off in Adelaide next week. In the launch…
Rio acquires scandium project in NSW Rio Tinto has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Platina Scandium Project near Condobolin in central NSW, from Platina Resources for $14 million. Rio described the project in a statement on Friday as “a long life, high-grade scalable resource that could produce up to 40 tonnes per…
A new report on technology adoption in the transport industry suggests that many jobs will disappear or be changed, with a majority of workers feeling unprepared when it comes to their skills. The Creating our future transport and mobility workforce study was carried out by the iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre and Swinburne University, and considered…
