Collapsed architectural glass maker Oceania Glass has been unable to find a buyer since going into administration earlier this month, with 56 employees made redundant ahead of the closure of its Dandenong factory. According to a statement from administrators Grant Thornton on Thursday, there is a potential for another 95 redundancies “over the coming weeks”…
Industry-research team progresses DAC technology The Woodside Monash Energy Partnership is advancing carbon reuse and recycling through a Direct Air Capture (DAC) innovation, designed to help carbon dioxide commodity users rapidly decarbonise, according to a statement on Tuesday from Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA.) The DAC project, which has been supported by a AEA Seed grant,…
Southern Ocean Subsea (SOSUB), a maker of underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), recently began exports to Norway of its world-first ROV for inspecting and repairing salmon aquaculture nets. According to a statement from Tasmanian innovation minister Madeleine Ogilvie, visiting the company’s workshop, SOSUB is “a textbook example of Tassie innovation”, harnessing “niche and island capabilities…
Steve Camilleri, the CTO and co-founder of cold spray additive manufacturing business SPEE3D, has said in a new essay that the nation must back its innovators and stop squandering its opportunities. Darwin-based Camilleri – who has co-founded two companies commercialising globally-relevant, Australian-developed technology – argues that the country has repeatedly lost out and allowed world-leading…
A composite particleboard product containing 30 per cent crumb rubber from tyres is “technically viable and commercially promising”, according to Tyre Stewardship Australia, which helped fund its development. According to a statement from TSA on Wednesday, Forest Products Innovation (FPI) researchers at Queensland Department of Primary Industries tested two questions: whether crumb rubber could replace…
