Colan Australia, the country’s sovereign manufacturer of engineered industrial textiles, recently celebrated its 70th anniversary with a gathering of the composites industry at its Huntingwood headquarters.
Sydney-based firm CST Composites, known for its unique filament winding technology, has made Australian-made pre-impregnated tow, or “Towpreg,” available to the broader composites manufacturing industry.
Achieving the status of ‘Tier 1 OEM supplier’ at the performance and premium end of the market, Carbon Revolution has climbed to the top of the global automotive supply chain pyramid in less than two decades.
Wheel evolution spans over five to six millennia, with its humble inception in the 4th millennium BC.
First published June 2012:The dictionary defines an opportunity as an “advantageous combination of circumstances”, and that’s exactly what evolved for LSM Advanced Composites when the project design and management teams for James Cameron’s submersible DEEPSEA CHALLENGER approached the Toowoomba based company to manufacture the carbon fibre internal lining of the Pilot Sphere.
First published June 2012: “I’ve always dreamed of diving to the deepest place in the oceans. For me it went from a boyhood fantasy to a real quest…” James Cameron
The Kwinana Nickel Refinery located south of Perth, Western Australia (WA), is the ‘first of its kind in Australia producing premium nickel sulphate used to make electric vehicle batteries. Its industrial equipment required to process the mineral ore is performance and material intensive – built to exacting engineering specifications.
In recent years, we’ve speculated about the commercial benefits in space, space travel and associated opportunities. This ripping article by Dr Nisa Salim, the Vice Chancellor’s Initiative Research Fellow at
Composites Australia congratulates Campbell Bolwell in being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to Mechanical Engineering.
Founded in 2019, Hypersonix Launch Systems aims to provide sustainable satellite launch services from Australia using hypersonic scramjet technology.
