New Somerton plastics recycling plant opens, will create 46 new jobs
Advanced Circular Polymers’ new plastics recycling facility at Somerton, which is Australia’s largest, officially opened this morning.
Melbourne carpet manufacturer proposes ban on nylon and synthetic carpets
Supertuft, a Melbourne manufacturer of woolen carpets, has called for banning nylon and PET plastic pile carpet in Australia and New Zealand, citing the health impacts of flame retardants used in these.
Sports drink start-up attracts investment
South Australian sports beverage start-up Preserve Health has raised more than $500,000 in seed capital to launch later this year. The funding from angel investors and high net-worth individuals will be used to fund the market launch of PREPD – a range of hydration-boosting drinks set to revolutionise endurance sports performance, according to CEO David…
IIC offers tools to assess IoT maturity
By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has released a web-based tool to enable users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity. It says its IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organisations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage and governance of IIoT…