Environex has been awarded a $1.3 million grant under the Queensland government’s Resource Recovery Industry Development Program, which will contribute to a new recycling facility at Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport.
Former Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering executive director Ashley Brinson has resurfaced as the founder and chief executive of a new GreenTech startup that is building automation systems for fast delivery of mass deployments of solar technologies.
Five public/private groups have been awarded a total of $1.6 million for advanced materials projects from the Next Generation Technologies Fund.
The first round of the Future Fuels Fund has been launched, with the federal government saying the $16.5 million grant round would support electric vehicle uptake and lessen concerns “about their capacity to travel longer distances in regional Australia.”
Pact Group has announced the completed acquisition of Flight Plastics, adding the ability to produce up to 5,000 tonnes a year of recycled PET trays and containers a year.
Monash University has announced what it says is a breakthrough method of creating hydrogen and methane gases from microalgae.
Gladstone has secured a high-purity alumina plant with a predicted output of 10,000 tonnes annually, with planning approval from the Queensland government announced on Thursday and an opening scheduled for 2023.
Applications opened on Thursday morning for Round 11 of CRC-P grants of between $100,000 and $3 million.
As Australian producers scramble to find markets for goods hit by Chinese import restrictions, it might look as though China is winning the diplomatic war.
But the current situation is a diplomacy fail for China as much as for Australia.
A Boston University-Fraunhofer collaboration has produced a new machine, able to produce 2,000 three-piece polypropylene facemasks an hour, and which is described as resembling an old-fashioned printing press crossed with an assembly line.