University of Southern Queensland graduate Thomas Murphy has won two national awards for his honours thesis on railway sleeper design. Civil engineer Murphy (pictured) will accept the Undergraduate Thesis Award at the Conference on Railway Excellence at Melbourne this month, which follows an award last October in the Futures Challenge by the Institute of Public…
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Researchers at Flinders University have discovered a new low-cost material that can be made into lenses for thermal imaging – opening the way to new advanced manufacturing applications for this powerful technology. Thermal and infrared imaging are used in many industries including defence, security and surveillance, medicine, electrical engineering, space exploration and autonomous vehicle operation.…
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The federal government’s first new Jobs and Skills Council (JSC) has been formally established aaiming to help the agribusiness sector get the skilled workers they need. The new Agribusiness JSC, named Skills Insight, has been established as a tripartite body inclusive of the full range of industry views as it pursues solutions to skills and…
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Scientists form the University of Sydney and RMIT have developed a new class of what they call ‘designer’ alloys made of titanium aimed at use in additive manufacturing processes. By integrating alloy and 3D printing process designs, the alloys hold promise for more sustainable high-performance alloys for applications in aerospace, biomedical, chemical engineering, space and…
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Australia’s dig & ship obsession, a report by climate tech startup Conry Tech released on Wednesday and tracking the Occupation (OCCP) and Industry (INDP) data from every Australian census since 2006, contends that “no Australian industry has shrunk more than manufacturing” over those years. Conry Tech was founded by Sam Ringwaldt and Ron Conry. The…
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Government, researchers and industry in Tasmania are to study the potential for developing a kelp industry offshore, potentially in association with finfish farming in the state. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania has issued a scientific permit to deploy marine infrastructure as part of a research programme on growing kelp. This project is…
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Matrix awarded new riser buoyancy contract Matrix Composites & Engineering has been awarded a contract for the supply of composite underwater drilling riser buoyancy modules. The contract, with Transocean, is valued at $4 million, with the modules scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter FY24. The buoyant modules will upgrade infrastructure on an existing…
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Researchers from UNSW Sydney have discovered a new method to create flexible, semiconductor-like materials. The research was led by UNSW’s Dr Hoang-Phuong Phan and published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. It is described as using lithography – which is a technique that uses light to fabricate features in integrated circuits – to create wide…
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Defence vehicle armour producer Plasan of Israel has successfully completed blast tests on the AS10 vehicle which is being purchased for the Australian Army under Phase 1 of the LAND 8116 Protected Mobile Fires (PMF) programme. The tests, carried out with the support of Hanwha Defense Australia and Hanwha Aerospace from the Republic of Korea,…
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Advertisement The Australian Manufacturing Forum has been approached by one of its members who wishes to sell his business – a high quality precision engineering business in Melbourne. The company has a range of blue chip clients with long term relationships in sectors including mining, defence, food packaging and industrial sectors. The company is ‘very…
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