Discussion of the environment is embedded in our culture as public awareness over issues such as climate change and plastic pollution has grown. Advertisers are not shy about tapping into this concern for their own benefit.
By Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Senior Research Fellow in Geometallurgy/Applied Geochemistry, The University of Queensland and Paul Gow, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Last month, scientists uncovered a mineral called Edscottite. Minerals are solid, naturally occurring substances that are not living, such as quartz or haematite. This new mineral was discovered after an examination of the…
Brent Balinski spoke to officials from Singapore’s science and research agency about collaborative R&D approaches at one public/private centre focussed on advanced manufacturing.
Queensland electric vehicle company ACE-EV Group will today unveil plans for a specialist design studio for composite electric vehicles, bringing together research resources in Australia, Taiwan and Germany. Flinders University and ACE EV with partners in Stuttgart and Ningbo, will sign a partnership agreement at 2.00pm at the Tonsley innovation precinct, south of Adelaide. The…
Automotive and defence manufacturer Supashock has expanded into the United States, announcing a new office in California at an event in Washington, DC. Former defence minister David Johnston formally announced the expansion for the Adelaide company at the AUSA land warfare conference organised by the Association of the United States Army. Johnston is the Australian…
Last week Chamberlain Group won the Manufacturer of the Year prize at the Hunter Manufacturing Awards. Brent Balinski speaks to its operations head in Oceania, Graeme Sheekey, about a recent robot roll-out.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to three chemists who collectively developed something that has become an absolute necessity in our daily lives – the lithium ion battery.
By Clinton Fernandes, Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW Silicon Valley may now be more popularly associated with software companies such as Google and Facebook but it takes its name from the material most used to make semiconductors. Semiconductors – or computer chips – power everything from mobile phones to military systems. The semiconductor industry…
Brent Balinski spoke to Singapore Manufacturing Federation President Douglas Foo about keeping the sector relevant.
By Andrea Polson, Marketing and Communications Manager, Licella Currently only 50% of plastics can be physically recycled. The rest, termed ‘End-of-Life Plastic’, is sent to landfill, incinerated or ends up in our oceans. Almost two years after China Sword (the World’s major waste importer banning the import of foreign waste), we still need to…
