Quickstep to supply bonnet, side skirts and mud guards for Thales’ Hawkei vehicles
Advanced manufacturing company Quickstep has welcomed the announcement that the Federal Government of Australia has awarded a $1.5 billion supply contract to defence contractor...
Cisco and Rockwell release new White Paper on secure sharing of plant and enterprise...
Cisco, the world leader in IT, and Rockwell Automation, the largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, have released a new White Paper...
Siemens, DST and QUT ink partnership agreement to advance use of HTS technologies in...
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Siemens has signed a five-year partnership agreement with The Australian Defence Science and Technology Group (DST) and Queensland University of Technology...
Incat secures large ship building contract for Danish Mols-Linien A/S
Tasmanian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd has announced that it has won a contract to build a large fast vehicle ferry for Danish company...
Australian PMI expands for 3rd straight month
AiGroup has reported that Australia’s manufacturing sector expanded for a third straight month in September.
The falling Aussie dollar has boosted the Australian manufacturing sector...
Volkswagen suspends sales on some models in Australia amid emissions scandal
Volkswagen Group Australia (VGA) has announced that it has decided to immediately suspend the sale of affected vehicles fitted with 1.6 or 2.0-litre EA189 diesel...
Thales wins $1.3bn contract to build 1,100 Hawkei vehicles in Bendigo (VIDEO)
Thales Australia has inked an agreement with the Federal Government to provide 1,100 locally built Hawkei protected vehicles and over 1,000 trailers to strengthen Australia's...
MIT researchers 3D print robotic hand that will make robots more flexible (VIDEO)
A team of engineers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have managed to make a robot hand that can grab and...
Consumer watchdog to investigate VW over emission scandal
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has confirmed that it would be investigating Volkswagen Group “for possible use of ‘defeat devices’ in Australia,...
Ansell launches new design technology for single-use gloves (VIDEO)
Global leader in protective solutions Ansell has introduced a new design technology for single-use gloves at this year’s National Safety Council Congress & Expo...
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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.
