A scientific breakthrough is a long way from being a product, as people trying for the first time to commercialise a program of research quickly find out. “Any investor who works with an early-stage deep tech university… spinout will tell you the same thing,” shares Dr Richard Parsons, CEO and founder of Kite Magnetics, shares. …
Fortescue deploys green ammonia powered test locomotive After almost a year of development, one of Fortescue Future Industries’ green ammonia test locomotives (pictured) has been sent up to the Pilbara in Western Australia. The locomotive will undergo further testing, before heading to one of Fortescue Metals Group’s operational sites. FFI took to social media and…
By Jay Rutovitz, University of Technology Sydney; Chris Briggs, University of Technology Sydney, and Rusty Langdon, University of Technology Sydney To get Australia’s grid 82% powered by renewables by 2030 is a huge increase. At present, the electricity powering eastern and southern states is around 33% renewable. To get there means a lot of work.…
Due to an unexpected number of high-quality contributions, @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s place in the semiconductor world editorial series has been extended again. Here Mike Nicholls writes that Australia has the opportunity to build a thriving semiconductor industry without investing $20 billion to build a fab. But we do need to get started. It’s hard to imagine,…
CSL opens its latest Victorian factory Biotechnology giant CSL has just formally opened its latest investment in Victorian pharmaceutical manufacture. The company’s $900 million Plasma Fractionation Facility (pictured) is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Talent acquisition partner at CSL Sam Edwards said: “This represents a nine fold increase in our production…
University of Sydney researchers and partners have developed a new, low-cost battery which has four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries and is far cheaper to produce will cut the cost of transitioning to a decarbonised economy. Led by Dr Shenlong Zhao from the University’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the battery has…
By Nathan Garland, Griffith University and Matthew Hole, Australian National University Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, developments in fusion power, which potentially ticks all these boxes, have been funded almost…
Matrix raises cash for expansion Perth’s Matrix Composites and Engineering has secured funding via a $7.5 million convertible note to fund major new contracts as it continues its emergence from a Covid pandemic low in business. The company, which manufactures buoyancy systems for underwater oil and gas infrastructure, has secured $30 million in orders since…
Biological sample tracking technology company Bluechiip has been awarded a $787,810 grant under the federal government’s Supply Chain Resilience Initiative, which will cover half the cost of a new semiconductor dicing and packing operation. The company announced on Friday that it was one of 18 grant recipients under the program, which offers grants between $50,000…
EMVision cashed up from three government and non-government grants Medical imaging company EMVision Medical Devices expects to receive $8.8 million in funding from three grant programmes in the current quarter. The company received in November $1.2 million in milestone payments from the Australian Stroke Alliance which is funding its development of a system utilising microwaves…
