Deakin University researchers and Simba Global, the country’s largest commercial linen supplier, are teaming for a project “to better understand the extent and type of microplastics shed when their products are laundered”. Simba Global supplies hospitals, hotels and mining camps, and sees an estimated 950,000 tonnes of textile products per year go through its commercial…
Lithium sulphur battery development company Li-S Energy has announced the completion of construction of a Low Dew Point, Ultra Dry Room to house its 2MWh battery manufacturing facility at Geelong, Victoria. The Phase 3 facility is the precursor to a 200MWh plant and ultimately a 10GWh+ gigafactory foreshadowed at the company’s recent annual general meeting…
By Peter Roberts As if it is not enough of a slap in the face for Australian technology companies the fact that carbon fibre wheel maker Carbon Revolution was bought by American investors for a song, the next step according to media reports is to manufacture in Mexico. According to Automotive News, the company born…
Funding totalling $26 million has been announced through ARC Linkage Projects 2023 Round 1 across 50 projects, including for next-generation microchip manufacture, anodes for next-generation lithium batteries, and addressing superalloy microstructure defects. The Linkage Projects scheme backs projects that “initiate or develop long term strategic research alliance” and provides funding of between $50,000 and $300,000…
Deakin University’s Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH) has partnered with Japan’s Jet Technology to recycle organic waste into valuable products, including converting apple waste into organic fabrics and sugar waste into stock feed. Alfred Deakin Professor and Deakin’s Chair in Biotechnology Colin Barrow and his team from the Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts will…
Cutting edge solar cars from around the world are assembling in Darwin for the 2023 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC) which will test entrants, including from Geelong’s Deakin University, over the grueling 3,000 kilometre race. The Deakin ASCEND team is the only Victorian entry, alongside 41 other teams from 23 countries in the event which…
Deakin University has announced another project through the new Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH), linking up with textile technology company Xefco for R&D on a waterless dyeing process for garment manufacture. Xefco has previously worked with Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials through the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre to develop its water-less dyeing…
A new collaboration between Deakin University’s Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH) and industry partner Clean Energy Resources (CER) aims to develop novel technologies to convert old tyres into electricity, hydrogen and other important resources. The partnership between Deakin and Geelong-based CER will develop a technology that provides a new way to generate electricity…
Aerospace composites manufacturer has signed an exciting engineering collaboration with the Sovereign Manufacturing Automation for Composites CRC (SoMAC CRC) and Deakin University Geelong’s Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (ISRII) to help bring down the cost of production. An initial 12-month Aeroline programme of research is valued at $1 million, funded 50-50, and forms…
Korean defence manufacturer Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA) has brought together Australian and South Korean industry to pitch its autonomous VenomX logistics concept. The company is pitching the AI powered ‘Automated Protected Logistics to the Edge’ system to the Australian Army via the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation and Coordination Office (RICO). Hanwha is building self-propelled…