A rights issue is underway in which industrial technology group Environmental Clean Technologies (ASX:ECT) is seeking to raise between $2.75 million and $7.45 million for expansion. The company is developing a number of technologies to upgrade low-grade materials such as brown coal as well as recover waste resources and turn them into new materials. Its…
Textile technology developer Xefco has raised $10.5 million in its latest funding round led by Australian deep technology fund Main Sequence Ventures backing its technology to reduce textile emissions. Xefco has been commercialising its patented water-free textile finishing and dyeing solution, Ausora, aiming to create a greener supply chain for the fashion industry. Other new…
US solar PV tracking technology developer Array Technologies is to set up an Australian manufacturing plant at a yet to be decided location. The Albuquerque company will develop the factory, the first sych facility in Australia, following the the award of a contract to supply solar trackers for the 130MWdc Glenrowan, Victoria solar farm project.…
Battery cathode materials producer Pure Battery Technologies has secured Europe’s biggest cleantech investor EIT Innoenergy as an investor, with the new backing to expand PBT’s European production and further develop plans for a materials hub in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The Brisbane company has an existing refinery in Hagen, Germany and is developing a cathode active…
Shifting to clean transport is a win-win-win – we can slash emissions, cut costs to commuters and boost Australia’s fuel security in a very uncertain geopolitical time.
Iot satellite manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies has revealed GeoSphere, a first-of-its-kind system that is a passive, non-destructive technique to assess site viability for mineral and material deposits. According to social media posts GeoSphere combines wireless Geodes, intelligent cloud processing and a constellation of low earth orbit (LEO) nanosatellites to discover critical resources up to 100…
Our team in collaboration with the research centre Tecnalia in Spain has developed a way to use environmentally friendly chemicals to recover rare-earth metals. It involves a process called “electrodeposition”, in which a low electric current causes the metals to deposit on a desired surface.
It’s one of six manufacturing sectors the federal government acknowledges as holding “comparative advantage and strategic importance,” and it’s seeing unprecedented levels of investment around the world. Brent Balinski looks at the promise of clean technology.
In this installment of our “technologies and tools…” series, Michael Sharpe highlights some manufacturers that are playing a part in the circular economy trend.
Continuing yesterday’s sustainability theme, @AuManufacturing’s “technologies and tools…” turns to the potential of bioenergy, which is underutilised in Australia compared to Europe. Shaun Scallan explains.
