Adelaide most competitive place to do business

FYI - Ford vehicle manufacturing was actually Broadmeadows in Melb. Geelong was engine plant only.

 

BHP is looking to fill 120 new jobs in its growing Olympic Dam team

Jobs will be on offer at the Olympic Dam site near Roxby Downs, as well as at the company’s offices in the Adelaide CBD.

The recruitment drive follows the company’s announcement earlier this year that it would spend $600 million at its Olympic Dam operations this financial year — the most significant outlay the company has ever made in South Australia.

Olympic Dam asset president Jacqui McGill said a wide variety of job opportunities were on offer, including project managers, project analysts, truck drivers, jumbo operators and loader drivers.

“We have a great future, we have sustainable growth plans and we are investing right here in South Australia to make the Olympic Dam operation modern and technologically advanced,” she said

“We’ve had some great success recruiting people from outside mining and appealing to people with diverse experience and background.”

“It is a really exciting time to be part of the industry, and part of Olympic Dam, and we want people from truck drivers to technology professionals to engineers, and everything in between to join us.”

BHP has a workforce of around 3,500 in South Australia based in Roxby Downs and at its CBD offices.

 

25,000 new jobs: What the defence boom means for SA

“I don’t think that the South Australian public, or the business community or the SA government has yet grasped the transformative potential of this defence industry investment,” said Mr Pyne, also the Sturt MP."

This likely would trigger an SA population increase of between 30,000 and 50,000.

"Adelaide’s northwestern and western suburbs would be the biggest beneficiaries, with strong demand for schools and housing in areas including Largs Bay, Semaphore and Mawson Lakes."

 

Saw a thing in today's newspaper (don't read it often, but there was one already on the table where i had lunch) that the new buyer of the Holden site (122 hectares or something huge like that?) planned to turn it into an innovation / technology park. Sounded great.

 

Cyber Security firm VeroGuard Systems to set up base in Adelaide’s north, creating almost 600 jobs

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Melbourne-based firm VeroGuard Systems has secured $6.2 million in State Government funding to set up a base at the Edinburgh Parks industrial estate north of Adelaide.

The company’s $57.5 million investment is expected to create 596 jobs in the first three years.

 

Welder shortage threatens Australian jobs on ships and submarines

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“Unless we act now, we’re looking at importing up to 500 welders from overseas which would be unforgivable. We’ve got Australians who can take these jobs and do a first-class job,”

 

I got shares in Codan some years back around 80c, it has a nice tech sector setup and slowly expanding in Adelaide and has research and development arm there.

 

They relocated to Mawson lakes a couple of years ago, they set the standard for Gold detectors. They have also developed an underground mine tracking system, that is also world class.

 

Elon Musk's giant battery is set for testing in South Australia

 

Navy signs $3.5 billion deal to build offshore patrol fleet in WA and SA

*Now we will see a pipeline of work that can bridge the gap between the end of the Air Warfare Destroyer project and the beginning of the Future Frigates project.*

 

Greenhouse expansion harvests 250 new jobs in Adelaide’s north - Investment Attraction South Australia

 

Pelligra Group to spend $250 million on Elizabeth Holden site to transform it into Lionsgate Business Park

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Whyalla steelworks owner Sanjeev Gupta eyes Holden site for electric car manufacturing hub

British billionaire eyes former Holden site for electric cars

SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said Sanjeev Gupta's company, GFG Alliance, recently approached the State Government with a plan to buy some of the former factory's assets.

If successful, Mr Koutsantonis said Mr Gupta would use the equipment to begin manufacturing electric vehicles at Elizabeth.

 

New iron ore mines to feed Whyalla steelworks and boost SA exports

New mine to help Whyalla steelworks cut production costs

"The new mining leases have been approved in the Middleback Range on Eyre Peninsula and add to Whyalla businessman Sanjeev Gupta's assets portfolio.

His company SIMEC Mining has gained approval for the Iron Sultan mine — which will feed the Whyalla steelworks — and the Iron Warrior mine, which will produce up to 1.5 million tonnes of export iron ore annually."

 

Lockheed Martin signs $700 million contract to design combat system for future submarines

Weapons design contract for future submarines to create 200 jobs

"It's 200 jobs at Lockheed Martin Australia alone — about 195 of those here in Adelaide and five of those in Canberra as part of the management."

Lockheed Martin Australia chief executive Vince Di Pietro said those jobs would be created "by the end of this year".

 

Adelaide will be home to award-winning international visual effects studio Technicolor

Technicolor dream: Adelaide to get $26m visual effects studio

"Chief executive Fred Rose listed favourable tax arrangements in the state and a strong pool of young talent being behind their decision to locate in Adelaide.

Mr Rose said the company hoped to create 500 new positions within five years."

 

SA election: German company to assemble batteries in SA, Labor pledges $100m for solar loans

The world's biggest producer of household batteries and solar energy systems will set up an assembly production centre in Adelaide.

German company sonnen will also move its Australian headquarters from Sydney to Adelaide.


SA election: German company to assemble batteries in SA, Labor pledges $100m for solar loans - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

When the wind stops, they can fire up the very expensive batteries to back up?
Doesnt this sort of defeat the purpose of wind power? How are the Government paying for these batteries, and how long do the batteries last?

 

The battery is partitioned into two sections. Roughly 70% is designed for FCAS (Frequency Control Ancillary Service) and only 30% for trading (storage).

The FCAS part has paid for itself already.

 

Where did you read that says the 70% FCAS has paid for itself already?