History
Mr. Ante (Tony) Guina, a Croatian born scientist, began research into magnetic and electromagnetic fields in the mid 1990’s. Guina Research & Development was established with an office on the Gold Coast, Australia, for the purpose of furthering this research with Tony Guina as Managing Director. In 2004 the company broadened its research focus to include the rapidly advancing fields of Superconductivity and Superconductive Materials. Our company was one of the first to use Opera 3D software in Australia for research and design of different electromagnetic machines.
Heron Energy, part of the Clermont Group, owned by New Zealand born entrepreneur Richard F Chandler, was welcomed as a majority equity partner in 2009. This partnership provided additional capital and made an expanded research effort possible.
In early 2010, Tony invented his first Electromagnetic Turbine motor (the Alpha-Tron). Since then Tony has invented coils and solenoids with a series of null regions in the electromagnetic field for use in the Super-Tron series of Electromagnetic Turbine motors and generators. These Electromagnetic Turbine motors and generators represented the most advanced and powerful Electromagnetic Turbines, in terms of their power to weight ratio, in the world. Tony acknowledges the significant contributions from team members John Kells, Dr Rene Fuger, Dr Grace Chu, David Sercombe, Dr Arkadiy Matsekh, Dr Cesimiro Fabian that made these achievements possible.
Significant achievements by John Kells included inventing Electromagnetic Power Converters/Gearboxes for wind turbines and homopolar machines which simplified and improved our technology further.
Andrew Budd joined the company in 2013 and guided the company through some of the busiest and most challenging times for which Tony is forever grateful. Mr Budd was employed as manager of administration and legal affairs and oversaw the construction of our new, purpose built facilities which opened in October 2014.
In early 2014 Tony invented a high power to weight, permanent magnet motor. This design was later developed specifically for use in electric aircraft. At the end of 2014 Tony left the company and divested his shareholding. The company was subsequently renamed magniX Technologies Pty Ltd. magniX has developed Guina motor designs for the aviation industry and to power Eviation’s Alice electric aircraft.
In November 2016 Tony created Guina Energy Research and assembled a new team to expand his research in electromagnetic fields, motors, generators and electromagnetic thrusters. Murray Britton joined the company in 2016 as Manager of Investments and was instrumental to see that the company generates a return on its investments in order to fund our research. In 2018 Tony invented a new generation of air-cooled axial flux machines which are going to be very efficient and produce high power to weight. Tony is very grateful to Dr Arkadiy Matsekh and Canning Mason for their assistance in research and development of our axial flux machines.
In April 2019 we became Guina ePropulsion to better reflect our current research focus. In 2022 Guina invented and commenced development of a completely new DC propulsion system.
From 1998 to 2024, Tony conducted over 1,000 experiments, designing a variety of electric permanent magnet motors, including AC, DC, and homopolar motors. Alongside his team, he also developed three different superconductive motors, both AC and DC. Tony set up a chemical laboratory where he explored cutting-edge concepts such as liquid metal brushes, current transfer through sodium-potassium solutions, and the potential of bulk superconductors and superconductive tape as magnetic shields.
A major breakthrough came when Tony invented his first thruster device, an innovation based on his understanding of magnetic fields and the ways in which superconductors can be used to control reactions. His thruster technology is currently being designed and prototyped.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Australian Federal Government via the Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&DTI). This support allows us to continue to employ and develop the highly skilled workforce necessary for technically complex research projects in Australia.
Guina ePropulsion is seeking to raise external equity capital to finance the continued development of our technologies.
