Latrobe Magnesium has commissioned the first phase of its 1,000 tonnes per annum, Stage 1 Demonstration Plant, successfully producing the world’s first environmentally sustainable magnesium oxide (MgO) from fly ash waste from brown coal power generation. This marks a significant milestone in pioneering a sustainable magnesium extraction method at an industrial scale, using the company’s…
Latrobe Magnesium (LMG) is pressing ahead with construction of facilities to extract magnesium products from brown coal fly ash at its facility in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley. The company has modified the process flow sheet to allow for early production of magnesium oxide to bring forward revenues and allow time for the commissioning of furnace…
Magnesium production company Latrobe Magnesium will sell the majority of its production in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean following the execution of an upgraded distribution contract with Metal Exchange Corporation of Missouri. The company, which is preparing a facility (pictured) in Victoria for its production plant, anticipates ‘excellent prices’ due to a…
Magnesium production company Latrobe Magnesium has secured a site and project funding to construct a magnesium production facility in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The company has purchased the buildings (pictured) it has been leasing at 320 Tramway Road from DG & and J Di Fabrizio Steel Fabrications for $4.5 million where it plans to extract and…
Latrobe Magnesium (ASX: LMG) which is developing a project to produce magnesium metal in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley has extended protection for its unique technology with the granting of a patent in India. The patent, which adds to protection in Australia, the US, EU, China and Indonesia, protects the company’s 100 per cent owned electrolytic…
DroneShield moves to profit on increasing global tensions Drone countermeasure company DroneShield has confirmed it moved to profit in FY23 on the back of rising global tensions and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The company reported record contracts and growing cash receipts which reached $73.5 million in FY23, five times the previous year. More than 68…
a2 Milk China manufacturing licence renewed The a2 Milk Company has had its current registration to manufacture China label infant formula renewed by the China Administration for Market Registration. This will allow China’s Synlait milk to continue to manufacture the product until 21 February, 2023 – registration had been dur to run out in September…
Thales shows off Bendigo armoured vehicle production Thales in Bendigo has welcomed 45 visitors from Defence’s Capability and Technology Management College (CTMC) to its Protected Vehicles manufacturing site in Bendigo (pictured, visiting the Bushmaster production line). “The aim of the visit is to expose CTMC students to some of the practical aspects of military vehicle…
