Recycling technology company Mint Innovation will open its first large-scale biorefinery in Sydney today, able to recover metals such as gold, copper and palladium from e-waste. New Zealand’s The National Business Review reports that the factory would be the world’s first e-waste biorefinery, and will sustainably recycle used metals back into local economies. “Mint have…
FYI Resources has appointed an engineering services contract for the high purity alumina (HPA) demonstration plant it is developing in Western Australia with its partner, Alcoa. The company has appointed Hatch Engineering as an engineering services provider to support work on studies for the demonstration plant, which follows the successful operation of a pilot plant…
XTEK’s HighCom Armor subsidiary has dispatched the fifth tranche of a major order, worth $US 33.21 and announced on May 27, for specialist armour products
An Internet-of-Things (IoT) and low-cost satellite telecommunications system developed by Adelaide’s Myriota has won the Environment and Sustainability award from the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards. The company and its partners NGIS, FrontierSI and the South Australian Department for Environment and Water, developed the system that improves groundwater bore monitoring and management, dramatically increasing understanding…
The FY22 yearly results for building products group Boral make clear the massive size of the haircut the company suffered through its fumbled foray into the United States market. The company reported total revenue in FY22 was 26.9 percent below the previous financial year’s $5.3 billion at $3.908 billion. It included revenues from now discontinued…
New national robotics strategy expected for 2023 Federal industry minister Ed Husic has told an interviewer that Australia currently “[doesn’t] have a game plan on robotics whatsoever”, and that a national strategy is expected to be developed by the end of March next year. The Australian Financial Review reported on Tuesday that no decision has…
Bone reconstruction technology company Osteopore is heading for the China market, signing a distribution agreement with Kontour (Xi’an) Medical Technology Co. Ltd to market and sell its products within the People’s Republic. Kontour is listed on the Shanghai stock exchange and is a leading manufacturer and distributor of surgical supplies across mainland China. It manufactures…
Austin Engineering will expand its range of mining excavator buckets, purchasing the business of Mainetec for upwards of $19.6 million, funded through existing debt facilities. Mainetec designs, builds and refurbishes mine buckets including the Hulk bucket range (pictured), and has significant overseas markets in the Americas which complement Austin’s own. It also manufactures rope shovels…
Industrial gases company BOC has announced that it will build a new carbon dioxide processing plant in the Victorian town of Longford, with capacity of more than 60,000 tonnes annually and expected to be operational in 2024. In an announcement on Tuesday, BOC – owned by the Linde Group – said the output of beverage-grade…
GFG Alliance’s mining arm, SIMEC Mining has produced its first high quality GREENSTEEL pellets that will underpin the future of steel production utilising hydrogen rather than coal at GFG’s primary steelworks at Whyalla, South Australia. The pellets were produced from the company’s Duchess South drill core in the Southern Middleback Ranges using innovative technologies proposed…
