Trans-Tasman collaboration aims to make high-purity graphite from old tyres
Tyre recycling business Green Distillation Technologies has announced a partnership with New Zealand’s CarbonScape to create graphite.
Brent is a co-founder and editor of @AuManufacturing.
Manufacturer of the Year prizewinner steps up a gear with robotics
Last week Chamberlain Group won the Manufacturer of the Year prize at the Hunter Manufacturing Awards. Brent Balinski speaks to its operations head in Oceania, Graeme Sheekey, about a recent robot roll-out.
Singapore’s industrial transformation
Brent Balinski spoke to Singapore Manufacturing Federation President Douglas Foo about keeping the sector relevant.
2021: a space business’s odyssey
Despite a recent mishap, Gilmour Space Technologies’ goal of offering commercial trips to orbit in 2021 is unchanged. Brent Balinski spoke to founder and CEO Adam Gilmour about the need for local launches, the $150 million federal boost to space companies, and the enduring mystery of a recent award nomination.
Slag, sustainability and steel
Metal manufacturers around the world are trying to lessen their greenhouse gas output. Brent Balinski spoke to the CSIRO’s Dr Mark Cooksey about some of his organisation’s work regarding green steelmaking, and why he believes the de-carbonisation trend is an opportunity for Australian metal producers.
Blast-off a bottleneck for Australian smallsat startups
Adelaide’s Fleet Space Technologies is one of the success stories in Australia’s burgeoning space startup industry. Brent Balinski spoke to CEO and co-founder Flavia Tata Nardini about its recent $10.8 million funding round, and the current shortage of available launches.
Australian project developing needle-free diagnosis method
Brent Balinski spoke to Professor Sharath Sriram, RMIT’s Co-Leader, Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group, about commercialising a novel way to detect heart disease from saliva.
New cybersecurity centre announced for Australia
The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre will be established at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct in Adelaide, South Australia this year.
‘Who are the actual recyclers?’ asks Australian plastics pioneer
In 1992, Mark Yates founded Replas, which makes outdoor products including bollards, decking and furniture, and recycles up to 4,000 tonnes of plastic a year. Yates tells Brent Balinski what to make of the current discussion we’re having around recycling, and about a recent project making handplanes out of reclaimed marine litter.
Life in the film business
Plastic Forests takes in contaminated plastic films, has capacity to produce 5,000 tonnes of new products from these per year, and currently has a lot of headroom. David Hodge tells Brent Balinski about what could be done to encourage demand.