A combined $15 million in state and federal grant funding for ten recycling projects was announced on Thursday, supporting reprocessing of materials including organic waste and plastics. The funding is made up of $11.26 million from the Circular Economy Organics Sector Transformation Fund and $3 million from the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund (both…
Circular economy researcher to trace plastic textile and refrigerant materials Among three University of Wollongong researchers awarded funding through the Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Scheme is Associate Research Fellow Dr Elyse Stanes, awarded $449,335 over the next three years. According to a statement from UoW, Stanes will conduct research into the circular economy…
Fast electric vehicle charger company Tritium has announced that its chargers are available for purchase by government entities through the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) on EV-related equipment. The USA’s federal agencies can now purchase the company’s chargers through company partners that are current Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) holders with…
SafeWork NSW inspectors have begun visiting Sydney manufacturing companies to ensure machine safety, the government agency said on Wednesday. Inspectors were undertaking visits in the Sydney metropolitan area, and SafeWork issued a reminder for businesses to think of safety when operating, maintaining, and cleaning machinery. Machinery operation is a high-risk activity, said Executive Director Compliance…
Bombardier has opened its new Melbourne Service Centre at Essendon Fields, which it says will create 65 new jobs and partner with schools and universities in Victoria on skills development. The company has approximately 80 business customers in Australia, plus others that fly in and out of the country for servicing. Bombardier says its aircraft…
The product stewardship organisation for tyres in Australia has said that industry wants to make greater use of tyre-derived materials in the Northern Territory – where only 12 per cent of used tyres are recovered – but the government needed to address barriers to this. According to Tyre Stewardship Australia-commissioned research, 72 per cent of…
Additive manufacturing business Conflux Technology and US defence contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) have extended their long-running partnership through a new contract on the design and manufacture of a fuel oil heat exchanger (FOHE) for the MQ-9B drone. The two companies have worked on four additive manufacturing projects since 2018. The latest aims…
Austal launches 115-metre high speed ferry Austal Philippines has successfully launched the 115-metre, high speed vehicle-passenger ferry Express 5 for MOLSLINJEN A/S of Denmark (pictured) The launch utilised a new vessel transportation system designed by Austal. The ‘Auto Express 115’ high-speed catamaran ferry is the largest ferry (by volume) constructed by an Austal shipyard and…
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer finalised the acquisition of Brisbane digital health startup ResApp Health for $179 million on Monday. ResApp uses technology licensed from University of Queensland commercialisation company UniQuest in 2014, and developed by a team led by Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne. It interprets a patient’s cough through a smartphone app to diagnose respiratory diseases…
Dr Siqi Huo, who will begin as a researcher at University of Southern Queensland next year, has been awarded a $421,000 grant from the Australian Research Council for work on improved one-component epoxy resins. Huo was recently awarded a grant through the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme for research on what is…
