Three consecutive months of accelerating growth for manufacturing have come to an end, according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index, which recorded an overall result of 52.4 points in May.
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Research and development (R&D) collaborations between industry and university are revitalising Australia’s manufacturing sector, according to the Innovative Manufacturing CRC. The IMCRC shares three examples in this installment of our Celebrating Australian Made series.
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Perth’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will trial a Quantum Brilliance room-temperature, diamond-based quantum ‘accelerator’ computer. The trial will be the world’s first of a diamond-based quantum computer located on-site at a research supercomputing facility. Developed by German-Australian start-up Quantum Brilliance, the rack-mounted diamond quantum “accelerator” leverages synthetic diamonds to run at room temperature in any…
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@AuManufacturing news and the Australian Manufacturing Forum Linkedin networking and discussion group welcomes the incoming federal government and its first ministry announced last night. The key Industry and Science portfolio is within the Cabinet, and will be taken on by Edham Nurredin Husic, better known as Ed Husic, the member for Chifley in western Sydney…
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Australian rare earths producer Australian Strategic Materials rolled out the Lamingtons during celebrations to open the company’s first critical metals production plant in South Korea. Located in the Ochang Foreign Investment Zone south of Seoul, the Korean Metals Plant will initially focus on supplying neodymium iron borate (NdFeB) and titanium metal alloys into Korean high…
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Australia can be one of the world’s cheapest sources of green hydrogen production but faces competition from countries such as China, Chile, Morocco and Columbia according to an analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). Australian sources come in as the fifth cheapest in the world of 25 studied, driven overwhelmingly by onshore solar…
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A summit linking participants in the defence science ecosystem will debut in July at Sydney’s International Convention Centre. The Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) Summit will run July 20-22, 2022. According to a statement from the Department of Defence on Tuesday., it will present an opportunity to “engage with leaders, entrepreneurs, business and…
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To go green, the world will need vast quantities of critical minerals such as manganese, lithium, cobalt and rare earth elements. But to some environmentalists, mining to save the planet is a hard pill to swallow if it leads to damage to pristine areas.
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Glazing systems that generate solar power developed by ClearVue Technologies are to be trialled in an evaluation by the US Air Force in the United States. The Perth company has joined with US company Nordis in an evaluation underway at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. The companies have combined Nordis’ electronically controlled window tinting…
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The South Australian government has moved on its promised construction of the country’s first green hydrogen powered electricity generation station, part of its Hydrogen Jobs Plan promised before the recent state election. Premier Peter Malinauskas announced the opening of a Hydrogen Jobs Plan Market Sounding and the introduction of legislation on hydrogen production, storage and…
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