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A collaborative partnership between Lockheed Martin, Australian manufacturer Omni Tanker and UNSW Sydney will look to develop and commercialise world-first composite tank technologies, thanks to a grant from the Federal Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC). The co-funded project, announced as part of AMGC’s Commercialisation Fund launch and worth a total $AUD1.4 million, will utilise two revolutionary …

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Australian tanker specialist commences export of patented carbon-composite tanks to America.  High-tech Australian tanker manufacturer Omni Tanker has officially launched its innovative carbon composite road tanker in the US, making the occasion with an event on October 1 at the headquarters of one of the product’s first customers, All Chemical Transport, in New Jersey. Omni …

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Researchers at the UNSW-based Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC) and industry partner Omni Tanker, have successfully reduced production and maintenance costs of the company’s specialised chemical transport tanks for aggressive corrosive and high purity oxidising liquids. The breakthroughs will shore up the company’s position as the market …

UNSW and Omni Tanker find a winning formula in advanced composite manufacturing Read More »

THE COMPELLING COMBINATION OF HIGHER RETURNS WITH ENHANCED SAFETY HAS PROVIDED THE PLATFORM FOR SYDNEY BASED INNOVATOR, OMNI TANKER, TO LAUNCH THE OMNITAINER – THE WORLD’S FIRST CARBON FIBRE COMPOSITE ISO TANK CONTAINER – INTO THE GLOBAL MARKET, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TANK CONTAINER LEASING POWERHOUSE, EUROTAINER. In late 2018, Omni Tanker and Eurotainer finalised a …

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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has turned its attention to one of Australia’s other major carbon abatement tasks – transport emissions – with a $4 million investment by its Clean Energy Innovation Fund into cutting edge Australian carbon fibre container technology. The award-winning technology, developed by Australian family company Omni Tanker, targets the bulk liquid …

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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is tipping $4 million into a $7.9 million capital raising for a NSW manufacturer of carbon fibre tanks for dangerous liquids that use a lot less energy and emit less carbon dioxide than conventional steel tanks. Omni Tanker’s carbon fibre-reinforced polymer tanks are 35 per cent lighter than conventional stainless or carbon …

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The transport of Dangerous Goods is subject to intense scrutiny from authorities, so most companies in the field outsource the transportation of their products to satisfy the complex safety requirements bestowed upon them. However, one Sydney-based family business has gone the opposite way and set up its very own Dangerous Goods transport service.