Manufacturing & Industrial Equipment Feature Articles

As Australian companies prepare for the New Year ahead, business information analysts at IBISWorld reveal the five industries expected to soar and the five expected to sink in 2013. ...

Queensland technology company, RedFlow, recently launched a highly innovative renewable energy battery storage system — the M90 — at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

There has been a new focus within the materials handling industry of late regarding the danger of wheel removals and replacements on all forklifts with pneumatic tyres.

Driverless cars, robotic mining, smart 'event alarm' CCTV and even at-home stroke rehabilitation - this is the world where computers can see, being made possible by researchers like ...

Hypersonic aircraft that could fly from Sydney to Madrid in less than two hours could be closer to reality following Australian scientific work with clay.

The University of Nottingham is working with E.ON to develop a next generation 'super battery' — which will enable businesses to benefit from clean, cheap and powerful energy storage. ...

Calls for carbon taxes to tackle global warming often dodge the complexity of this issue, with the risk hasty action could damage the world economy and fuel the greenhouse-gas problem, ...

Explosions caused by boiling liquid could be reduced by suppressing the liquid from bubbling, according to a new University of Melbourne study.

Two of Australian's leading clean-up scientists have urged governments and policymakers to earmark a portion of the carbon tax to cleaning up the mess that may be left by the nation's ...

Murdoch University researchers have come up with a potential solution to one of sustainable energy's greatest challenges: power storage for use in non-generation times.

Research has found workers are significantly less likely to claim GP visits for psychological illnesses on workers' compensation than they are for physical work-related injuries such ...

Carbon pricing is essentially about ensuring the economy can grow without emissions growing at the same time.

The search is on again for the nation’s greatest ideas – in fields from environmental science to education – through the $70,000 The Australian Innovation Challenge awards.

A whole new class of biosensor that can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in just 40 minutes has been developed by a UNSW-led team of researchers.

Two Queensland University of Technology (QUT) industrial design lecturers and entrepreneurs have designed and built a number of motorcycles so refined they have attracted the interest ...

Australia is a world leader in developing clean, more sustainable resources and technologies to prevent pollution, the managing director of CRC CARE, professor Ravi Naidu said recently. ...

An international research breakthrough with bees means machines might soon be able to see almost as well as humans.

Researchers from New York University and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric acid in a Nature Chemistry study that sheds new light on the ...

Pioneering new miniature laser technology which could revolutionise a future generation of mobile phones has been developed by a manufacturing business in the United Kingdom.

A partnership to develop products using insect silk will explore a range of industrial applications, with the aviation and marine industries in particular taking notice.