Tag: Australia

Australia and Germany have partnered to pave the way for new opportunities for critical minerals projects as part of a broader effort to achieve climate and energy goals. 

UNSW Sydney is now home to the new ARC Research Hub for Battery and Consumer Wastes, which seeks to recover valuable materials found in Australia’s batteries and other complex wastes.

The Albanese government has published a discussion paper on the development of a new National Robotics Strategy as part of an effort to foster advanced manufacturing in Australia. 

Symbio Laboratories is opening a new research and development centre in Melbourne that will advance Victoria’s capabilities in biotechnology and molecular biology, cementing the state’s status as Australia’s life sciences hub. 

Australia’s lithium and base metal industries are expected to be worth approximately $47 billion in the current financial year amid strong demand in the country’s clean energy technology sector. 

Nightingale Intelligent Systems, a provider of advanced security drones, announced an exclusive multiyear distribution agreement with public safety technology firm Arvensys Group in an effort to supply artificially intelligent security drones to Australia and New Zealand.

Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry, and his German counterpart, Thomas Hitschler, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defence, have signed a Letter of Cooperation to begin official negotiations to manufacture the Boxer heavy weapon carrier vehicles in Queensland for export to Germany.

Ferra Engineering has signed a partnership agreement with Indian precision engineering company Dynamatic Technologies to enhance scale and capabilities in strategic aerospace manufacturing. 

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and US Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy are set to Australia this week in an effort to highlight the close collaboration of the two countries in space innovations. 

The 2023 Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) Australasian Packaging Conference provisional program will be available for the first in-person conference since before the pandemic, attracting delegates from all facets of food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging and manufacturing industries.