Veteran building products supplier Adbri could be the latest Australian manufacturer to fall to overseas control following an offer from a consortium of global building supplies group CRH plc and local premixed concrete supplier Barro Group. The partners have submitted a non-binding offer pitched at 9x EBITDA profit and a 41 percent premium to the…
Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme in operation Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme is now operating, providing consumers and businesses with a 10 cent refund for every eligible drink container they recycle. Eligible containers include most aluminium, glass, plastic and liquid paperboard (carton) containers which can be returned to refund points for payment. Refunds can be given as…
Environmental technology company Calix and lithium miner Pilbara Minerals have announced a final investment decision to build a $104.9 million demonstration plant for processing a lithium-enriched product from a low-grade spodumene, able to produce over 3,000 tonnes per annum of lithium phosphate. The two ASX-listed companies announced a joint venture for the Pilgangoora Project in…
@AuManufacturing and the Australian Manufacturing Forum’s quest to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers is over. Editor Brent Balinski hosted a breakfast event in the Melbourne industrial heartland of Clayton this morning which saw the whole list revealed. As we planned, 50 Australian manufacturers were inducted into @AuManufacturing’s inaugural Top 50, with another 24 forcing…
Vast Solar has executed a letter of intent (LOI) with German energy company Mabanaft GmbH & Co. KG for potential offtake and equity investment in Solar Methanol 1 (SM1), Vast’s world-first green methanol demonstration plant. Vast is a concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) technology and project developer, which boasts technology to generate green, dispatchable utility-scale…
By Peter Roberts The green industry dam is burst – after years if not decades of talk that Australia’s minerals will one day have to go green to survive in a world where trade favours green production, Australian company Rio has received its first big international green order. Aluminium producer Rio Tinto has been contracted…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY’S FIRST FOUNDER IN RESIDENCE WILL FOCUS ON AEROSPACE R&D Rachael Barritt from Dovetail Electric Aviation has been named Swinburne University’s first Founder in Residence, with a focus on “new ideas and ventures” related to aerospace…
Concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) company Vast Solar, and the Solar Methanol Consortium have been selected to receive $19.48 million (EUR13.2 million) from an Australian-German collaboration fund, HyGATE, to develop a world-first green methanol demonstration plant, SM1 in Port Augusta in South Australia. Methanol is the most versatile hydrogen derivative which, if produced using clean…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) 2023 WILL DECIDE IF THE CALIX PROCESS CAN UNLOCK ZERO EMISSION STEEL Steel makers are looking towards net zero with hydrogen produced from renewable sources the world’s best bet on decarbonising this essential industry. Here, in an…
What were the five biggest stories this week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. AUSTRALIA’S PLACE IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR WORLD: SILICON IS QUANTUM, QUANTUM IS SILICON, AND AUSTRALIA MIGHT FINALLY HAVE AN EDGE Beginning the second week of our editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Andre Saraiva looked at Australia’s heritage in…
