Geelong, Victoria's second city, has emerged as an area of great expertise for advanced materials - particularly carbon fibre composites - in recent years. Brent Balinski spoke to Quickstep’s Carl De Koning about the company’s New Technology division, headquartered at Waurn Ponds.
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AusNet profits fall by 52 per cent
Victorian energy company AusNet Services’ first-half statutory net profit has fallen by 52 per cent on its previous year’s result.
Net profit for the six months to September 30 was $178.6 million,
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Sheet metal working now at your fingertips
Lantek has developed a new functionality to its existing range of sheet metal solutions CAD/CAM software, which integrates online parts and consumables procurement for sheet metal parts.
Using CAD/CAM
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Talking robots will soon be here
Voice recognition software maker Nuance Communications has announced that robot maker ROOBO will be using the Nuance Mix NLU development platform, which provides voice and natural language (NLU) capabilities,
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Incitec still nervous about its recovery
Australia’s car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions
Ford’s closure of its Geelong manufacturing plant last month is part of a broader story about Australia’s
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Did Murray Goulburn overstate its earnings?
A forensic accountant has alleged that dairy processor Murray Goulburn may have overstated its earnings and even lost money in the last financial year.
It was claimed in early November that its treatment
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Tetra Pak expands regional manufacturing footprint with US$110 million Vietnam factory
Bolstered by rapid consumption growth and increasing customer needs in the Asia Pacific region, leading food processing and packaging solutions company Tetra Pak today announced their US$110 million investment
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New pipe and tube cutting software
US-based Hypertherm has released Rotary Tube Pro, software that makes it easier to design and cut tube and pipe parts with no 3D CAD experience required.
The software features a parametric design interface
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National plan to boost Australia’s METS sector launched
The new 10 Year Sector Competitiveness Plan to improve the growth of Australia’s mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector was launched at the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) yesterday.
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Incitec takes profit hit from weak fertiliser, commodity prices
Incitec Pivot’s net profit after tax has slumped 68 per cent for the year ending September 30, with the company citing resources and fertiliser price slumps.
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Former Tata British Steel suitor emerges as Arrium bidder
Britain’s wealthy Gupta family is reportedly interested in Arrium’s steel and iron assets.
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Tesla founder, coal boss exchange “fraud” comments
The CEO of the US’s largest privately-held coal company has called car maker Tesla a fraud.
Reuters reports that Robert Murray told an interviewer yesterday (US time) that Tesla was the recipient of
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Bradken board backs Hitachi takeover bid
Bradken’s board has supported a takeover bid worth $689 million from Japan’s Hitachi Construction Machinery.
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Taking action on workplace safety
Australia’s largest workplace health and safety event, Safety in Action, took place this year in Sydney, exhibiting the latest systems, products, and seminars to encourage safety in the workplace. Manufacturers’ Monthly was on site speaking to some of the companies that attended. Sharon Masige writes.
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Laserbond wins Chinese technology contract
LaserBond has secured a contract to provide technology services for a Chinese minerals processing equipment manufacturer.
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Australian manufacturers’ confidence “rebounding”, finds survey
Australian manufacturers are increasingly confident about profitability in 2017 and have “rebounded strongly” in recent months, according to a long-running quarterly survey.
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“Too early” to write China steel growth obituary, says BHP forecaster
Chinese steel output will continue to increase modestly, BHP Billiton is predicting, contrary to some analysts’ predictions.
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Hedweld opens new manufacturing facility in the Hunter
Hedweld Engineering has opened a new manufacturing facility in Mt. Thorley, NSW, to foster innovation in the Hunter region.
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Volvo puts a self-driving truck to work in the mines
Volvo has tested out its self-driving technology truck underground to work in a Swedish mine.
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