More than 14,000 tonnes of soft plastics will be diverted from South Australian landfills every year, thanks to a $20 million investment in advanced recycling technology by the Australian Government. Recycling Plastics Australia in Kilburn will clean and purify soft plastics such as shopping bags, chip packets and food wrappers to create feedstock for new…
Visy officially opened a new $150 million investment at Penrith on Thursday, and says it is now running the country’s most energy-efficient glass furnace. Visy Chairman Anthony Pratt (pictured on right) said it is Australia’s first oxygen-only fuelled furnace, and uses less than half the energy than the one it replaced. This represented “saving enough…
BHP sets new copper smelting records BHP has set new records for smelted copper production at its South Australian copper mines centred on the Olympic Dam mine, concentrator and smelter. The company achieved record copper mined and concentrate smelted at Olympic Dam in FY24 production was up by 39 per cent to 322kt in the…
Eco Detection, which makes “lab-in-a-box” solutions for automated water quality monitoring, has announced an investment worth $10 million from London Stock Exchange-listed mining services company Capital Limited. In a statement on Friday, the Melbourne-based company said that its Ion-Q platform is currently gaining acceptance over a variety of water monitoring applications. Within mining it supports…
A space camera that can provide images back to Earth at high speed, aiding in disaster resilience operations, land management, and defence, is to be manufactured in Australia. This multi-sensor camera for Earth observation is now in development with Leonardo, Spiral Blue, Nominal Systems and The Australian National University (ANU), brought together under an iLAuNCH…
The Australian Furniture Association (AFA) and Global GreenTag International have entered a partnership to increase sustainability benchmarks of furnishing manufacturing practices, product design and output. This follows AFA research which has identified furniture and furnishings as being in the top ten high risk waste and sustainability categories. The AFA delivers industry relevant, professional services to…
Machinery manufacturer SPEE3D has announced a strategic partnership with energy solutions provider RusselSmith to bring its cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) equipment to West Africa. RusselSmith will become a regional partner and value-added reseller for SPEE3D products – deploying, training, selling, and supporting customers in the region’s oil and gas, defence, and commercial industries. RusselSmith…
Quantum development company Archer Materials has announced improvements in how the company detects single electron spins in a quantum computing device. Quantum computers store and retrieve information at the sub atomic level, utilising different spin states of an atom’s orbiting electrons. The Archer quantum team, led by Dr Simon Ruffell and Dr Byron Villis, has…
Passive radar manufacturer Silentium Defence has delivered the first tranche of sensor systems for Australia’s Joint Air Battle Management System, AIR6500 being developed by Lockheed Martin Australia. The Silentium Defence MAVERICK passive radar system provides a 3D capability that enables instantaneous, wide-field-of-view surveillance, according to a statement. It also supports tracking of targets with higher…
Cold spray 3D printer manufacturer Titomic has announced the sale of a TKF 1000 cold spray system to its Repkon Titomic Production Technologies and Trade Co. Inc joint venture for $2.3 million. Repkon Titomic will operate the hybrid cold spray manufacturing facility in Turkey, which will integrate Titomic’s TKF technology with Repkon’s flow-forming techniques to…
