By Peter Roberts One of the truisms that come from the forces ranged against Australian manufacturing is that local labour costs are too high to compete with countries where labour is cheap and labour laws are lax. Of course this was never true, otherwise why would high-cost Germany etc be seen as powerful and competitive…
The first military aircraft to be built in Australia in over half a century has been given a new name, the MQ-28A Ghost Bat. Boeing congratulated the Australian government and Royal Australian Air Force on the selection, with the Loyal Wingman development program name to be phased out. The new military designator and name was…
Perth mining equipment manufacturer Austin Engineering has more than doubled its order book over the past year on the back of a renewed focus on manufacturing efficiency and a recovery in the mining market. The company announced today that it has received $81 million in new orders across the business in the three months to…
Australia will eventually have eight nuclear submarines, under a partnership with either the US or UK, and a new base for them at one of three short-listed sites on the east coast.
Submarine builder ASC has welcomed more former submarine workers into its ranks as part of national efforts to redeploy those displaced when the federal government abandoned its plan for French company Naval Group to construct Attack class submarines in Adelaide. ASC, which built and maintains the Collins class submarines, has employed another 120 Attack class…
Aerospace and defence company Boeing has announced that it has committed over $5 million to an 18-month development program involving seven suppliers on a team which intends to build satellites under the JP9102 program.
SeaStock, which recently became the sixth company with a licence to produce asparagopsis extract-based livestock feed, will undertake a project on “production and processing techniques” with Flinders University. Asparagopsis is a red seaweed native to Australia and New Zealand, and the subject of years of research led by CSIRO and James Cook University investigating the…
CSIRO and Singular Health have announced the creation of an AI-based model for designing bespoke cranial implants. Crainiotomy CT scans were used to train a convolutional neural network AI model to generate a cranial implant design. Made possible with the support of CSIRO Kick-Start, the AI model is capable of generating a cranial implant within…
Across Australia, women are delivering ground-breaking research and innovation within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) spoke to four women involved in IMCRC’s manufacturing research projects about their careers, why gender equality matters and what we can do to inspire more girls…
Today our special editorial series celebrating International Women’s Week profiling women leaders in composites, turns to Aquatic Leisure Technologies (ALT), Australia’s largest swimming pool manufacturer. At the helm of this extraordinary company is Lynley Papineau. By Kerryn Caulfield. The backyard pool is the ultimate Aussie playground – a private oasis for fitness and relaxation, and…
