Explosives maker opens new detonator plant
Global explosives maker Dyno Nobel has opened a new automated electronic detonator plant.
Bowen’s huge week of green energy announcements
By Peter Roberts Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has topped off a national tour of green energy projects across the country with the inauguration of a community battery in Bondi, New South Wales. Flanked by CEOs Marc England of Ausgrid, Frank Calabria of Origin and Mark Collett of Energy Australia he revealed that…
Incitec fertiliser business sale to PT Pupuk falls over
Incitec Pivot has announced that negotiations with Indonesia’s PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (PKT) have ended, following weeks of discussions, with Incitec saying it continues to explore options for splitting its fertiliser and explosive divisions. As reported by @AuManufacturing and others in May, Incitec was in “advanced negotiations” with Indonesia’s PKT on a potential sale of…
More gas available for customers, but have manufacturers noticed?
By Peter Roberts The federal government has secured ‘more gas at reasonable prices’ to be made available for Australia’s east coast gas users through a new supply deal with Walloons, part of Shell, according to the government. An additional 40 petajoules will be made available for the domestic market for gas power generation between now…
Best of the week — the five most popular stories among readers, May 13 – May 17, 2024
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Incitec Pivot’s fertiliser business heads for foreign control Yet another Australian manufacturing operation is heading for foreign control with fertiliser and explosives business Incitec Pivot confirming it was negotiating the sale of its fertiliser manufacturing to an Indonesian…
Incitec Pivot’s fertiliser business heads for foreign control
Yet another Australian manufacturing operation is heading for foreign control with fertiliser and explosives business Incitec Pivot confirming it was negotiating the sale of its fertiliser manufacturing to an Indonesian company. IPL’s CEO & Managing Director Mauro Neves told investors the company had continued to progress the structural separation of its fertiliser and explosives businesses.…
Chemistry Australia awards go to BASF, Pact Group
Chemistry Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Industry Awards, with awards going to leaders of the Australian chemistry industry gathered in Melbourne. The achievements of finalists and winners were celebrated across six award categories. Chemistry Australia CEO Samantha Read said the Industry Awards continue to be an important opportunity to highlight the valuable…
Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed
Cobram Estate now the US’s biggest producer of olive oil Cobram Estate Olives has likely become the largest olive oil producer in the United States following strong growth seen in the just completed 2023 Californian harvest season. The company saw the production of 3.2 million litres of olive oil, 89 percent higher than 29022’s harvest…
Fortescue presses ‘go’ on 3 green hydrogen projects
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group has pressed ‘go’ on three green hydrogen projects in Australia and internationally to cost a collective $1.14 billion (US$750 million) over the next three years. The company’s board announced final investment decision had been reached on two green energy projects including one planned for Gladstone, Queensland and a green metals…
Best of the week — the five most popular stories among readers, November 13 – 17, 2023
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Search for industry partners for a Surface Manufacturing CRC Researchers led by UniSA are searching for companies interested to develop surface processing capabilities in a planned Surface Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (SMCRC). Surface Engineering and Manufacturing optimise…