$70 million Powering the Regions Fund: Industrial Transformation Stream opens for applications

The federal government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) opened a second round of the Powering the Regions Fund: Industrial Transformation Stream (ITS) program on Friday, with $70 million allocated to assist industrial businesses to decarbonise. Following Thursday’s announcement of a $39.8 million grant awarded through the fund to the nation’s only silicon producer, Simcoa Operations,…

Mapei releases range of SCM-boosting concrete admixtures, including Australian-developed variant

Construction industry chemicals company Mapei has officially launched Mapecube, a range of concrete admixtures, with an Australian formulation developed at the company’s Brisbane plant. According to a statement from the Milan, Italy-based company on Friday (Australian time), Mapecube is “designed to strengthen and reduce the CO2 footprint of concrete” and allows concrete producers to “use…

Graphene Manufacturing Group raises $6.4 million, looks to list on “a major United States exchange”

Brisbane-based, Canadian-listed Graphene Manufacturing Group has raised $C 5,796,000 (approximately $6.4 million) at a price of $C 0.80 per unit. According to a statement from the company on Friday (Australian time), the net proceeds will be used to expand its production capacity to increase sales, for R&D on its Graphene Aluminium-Ion Battery with the Battery…