Australia’s flooring industry from manufacturers to installers have taken the first step towards a circular economy approach to flooring. The Australian Resilient Flooring Association (ARFA) has released the proposed design for ResiLoop, Australia’s first national stewardship scheme for resilient flooring. More than 40 key stakeholders including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, installers, and specifiers as well as…
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Visy has officially launched the upgrade to its Gibson Island, Queensland recycling facility, which the company says will add an additional 39,000 tonnes per annum of capacity and 11 new jobs. The $48 million project was awarded a $16 million grant from the Queensland Jobs Fund in April last year, with state premier Annastacia Palaszczuk…
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Vanadium miner and processor Australian Vanadium (AVL) has received a federal government grant that advances the development of a vanadium redox battery industry in Australia. The federal government will provide a $49 million grant through the Modern Manufacturing Initiative – Manufacturing Collaboration Stream to support the Australian Vanadium Project. The company plans a mine at…
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Digital microscopy company Optiscan Imaging has announced the launch of an entitlement offer, aiming to raise as much as $16.7 million for purposes including R&D, clinical studies and working capital. In a statement on Tuesday morning it said that had lodged a prospectus with ASIC, with an indicative date of July 6 for issuing shares…
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A parliamentary subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade will hold a public hearing on Space Command and capability on Tuesday, According to a statement from Julian Hill MP, chair of the Defence Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, the subcommittee will hear evidence…
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A Canadian-based mining innovation company is opening a new office in Adelaide to study the application of its ore crushing and grinding technologies to remote mining operations envisaged on the Moon. Rockburst Technologies benefitted from funding as part of the South Australian Landing Pad programme to establish operations in the state, including related to space-based…
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A review study looking back at the effects of Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and restrictions on the VET sector has reaffirmed the particularly negative effects of the pandemic on apprentices and trainees. The study, the Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on VET by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), showed more than one in…
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Carbon fibre nanotube (CNT) X-ray manufacturer Micro-X has completed field testing of its latest product, the Argus X-ray camera for detecting improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The company succeeded in transmitting backscatter X-ray technology-derived images (pictured) from a pre-production version of the Argus to operators at remote locations – including as far as 1,500 metres from…
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Electronics manufacturer REDARC is teaming up with nanosatellite systems manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies to push the frontiers of mining technology utilising satellite sensing. REDARC will manufacture Fleet Space’s high technology satellite-connected mining exploration products at its Lonsdale, Adelaide facility. The products will be used with Fleet Space’s ExoSphere, a satellite solution for the mineral exploration…
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Brain imaging technology company EMVision Medical Devices has moved to its second phase of human testing of its innovative portable brain scanner. The company’s first generation scanner, which uses microwave imaging techniques to detect strokes at an early stage, previously successfully completed a stage 1 trial with 30 healthy volunteers. The scanner is aimed for…
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