Pressure hits Toyota after Holden announces 2017 shutdown
General Motors’ decision to shut down Holden’s manufacturing operations in Australia will place unprecedented pressure on the local supplier network of Toyota Australia and...
ABB’s donation drives learning in power electronics at Monash University
Multinational power and automation technology corporation ABB recently donated more than $150,000 in drives, motors and PLC equipment to the Electrical Power Engineering (EPE)...
Northrop Grumman and RMIT to study safe use of unmanned aircraft systems in Australia
Northrop Grumman — a leading global security company that provides innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernisation...
Adelaide space start-up inks Statement of Strategic Intent with the Australian Space Agency
Australian space start-up Myriota has signed a Statement of Strategic Intent with the Australian Space Agency to enhance the capabilities of Australia’s space industry.
Based in...
Lockheed Martin Australia inks $50m contract with Defence
Lockheed Martin Australia will continue with the ongoing sustainment of the Tactical Air Defence Radar System (TADRS) under a new five-year contract with Defence...
Australia set to become a major supplier of nuclear medicine
Australia broke ground on a new, A$168 million nuclear medicine facility, which will manufacture radiopharmaceuticals used to diagnose cancer and heart disease.
According to the...
BioPak unveils Australia’s first home-compostable PHA cups
Global sustainable packaging leader BioPak has launched its innovative home-compostable cups made from polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA).
Kidston Phase One Solar Project on track to achieve first generation in late 2017
The construction of Phase One 50MW Kidston Solar Project (KSP1) is progressing on time and on budget, project proponent Genex Power Limited announced on...
SA’s disused Iron Duchess could be transformed into 90MW pumped hydro energy storage plant
ARENA has thrown its support behind a feasibility study that will examine the potential to turn a mothballed mine site in the South Middleback...
Matrix secures $16 million buoyancy system order in South America
Matrix Composites & Engineering, a provider of composite and advanced material technology solutions, has bagged a $16 million purchase order to deliver a subsea...
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From ship repair to autonomous underwater vehicles: Griffin Industrial’s next chapter with growth capital
Some of Australia’s most critical manufacturing happens where almost no one sees it: inside a fuel tank on a Navy tanker, in a machine shop south of Perth, on a workshop floor in western Sydney where a team is helping build autonomous underwater vehicles. Griffin Industrial does all three.
