Sutherland beaches and waterways purged of huge amount of plastics
ANSTO citizen scientists have collected 20,000 plastic particles from Sutherland Shire beaches and waterways as part of the organisation’s Plastics Project that studies the...
Siemens launches new service centre in Tonsley
Global technology giant Siemens has become the latest high-profile company to invest in Tonsley, WA, with the opening of a new cutting edge maintenance...
Australian shipbuilder ASC cuts 101 blue collar jobs
101 blue collar contract worker jobs have been lost at Australian naval shipbuilder ASC due to the gradual winding down of the Air Warfare...
New $100m manufacturing centre officially opened at Swinburne University (VIDEO)
A new advanced manufacturing and design centre has been officially opened at Swinburne University that is set to provide students and researchers alike with...
CSIRO and ENA join forces to map electricity sector transformation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Energy Networks Association (ENA) have partnered to deliver an Electricity Network Transformation Roadmap.
The Roadmap...
Harvard University researchers develop flexible 3D printed soft-bodied robot (VIDEO)
Researchers from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute and the University of California at San Diego have developed a one-of-a-kind flexible and extremely durable robot with...
Amcor expands footprint in India with new acquisition
Amcor has announced that it has acquired Essel Propack’s wholly owned subsidiary Packaging India Pvt Ltd (PIPL) in a deal valued at $US26.4 million...
HEGS Australia named 2015 Telstra South Australian Business of the Year
HEGS Australia, SA’s manufacturer of the famous “heg” – a clothes peg with hooks – has been named the 2015 Telstra South Australian Business...
3D Systems unveils new water soluble filament (VIDEO)
3D printing giant 3D Systems has released the new Infinity Rinse-Away support material – set to make 3D printing complex objects much easier.
In complex 3D objects,...
Aussie engineer develops 3D brick printing machine that can build a house in two...
Mark Pivac, an aeronautic and mechanical engineer of FastBrick Robotics, has developed Hadrian, a robotic, fully-automated machine that can build a whole house in...
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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.
