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.
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Building and construction group Boral (ASX: BLD) today reported annual results little changed from the previous year, a creditable result given a slump in housing construction in Australia and the United States. Despite a 15 per cent decline in Australian housing starts and lower than expected growth in the US, Boral managed revenues of $5.9…
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Comment by Peter Roberts Barely a day goes by without some sort of warning to Australia and Australian business that the future is at risk because of our political paralysis over the related issues of global warming and future energy needs. In little more than a week we have seen warnings of various kinds from…
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Medical equipment manufacturer Optiscan Imaging (ASX: OIL) has announced its virtual biopsy technology has been selected for a cancer trial at the prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. The Centre will use the Optiscan system and confocal laser endomicroscope technology for an oral cancer human clinical trial to begin shortly. Optiscan views…
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Melbourne electric vehicle drive manufacturer SEA Electric continues to release more images and videos detailing their all-electric van and light truck range. The company, which fits its drives on most van and cab/chassis platforms including Ford, Iveco and Isuzu, over the weekend released the main image (above) of its Isuzu F Series. Powered by SEA-Drive…
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Building materials group Boral (ASX: BLD) is selling its Midland Brick subsidiary at the same time as one-time rival Brickworks (ASX: BKW) buys another brick maker in the United States. Boral today announced it has sold its Midland Brick business to a group of local investors to concentrate on construction materials. The company announced today…
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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.
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Dental equipment and consumables manufacturer SDI (ASX: SDI) increased its profit and sales in the latest financial year as it navigates away from amalgam, the traditionally used material for filling teeth. The Melbourne manufacturer today announced net profit after tax was up 29 per cent to $7.3 million on sales up 6.8 per cent to…
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By Peter Roberts Australia has embarked on massive local defence acquisitions without clear linkages to national economic, and ‘perhaps military-strategic impacts’, according to a paper published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Author Rob Bourke, a former economic adviser to the Defence Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, called for a Productivity Commission inquiry into local…
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By Andrew Spence Australian machines that pulverise weed seeds as crops are harvested have been shipped to North America where they are being trialled during this month’s harvest. Invented in South Australia, the Seed Terminator can be retrofitted to new and used John Deere, CASE IH, Massey Ferguson, Claas and New Holland Class 7, 8, 9 and…
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