Orica signs agreement to bring digital mining tech to Turkey
Explosives manufacturer Orica has signed an agreement with KAPEKS to introduce digital technology into Turkey’s mining sector.
Alpha HPA progresses aluminium chemicals plans, plans Canadian facility
Aluminium chemicals company Alpha HPA is in production of battery metals precursor materials at its stage 1 plant at Gladstone, Queensland and construction of the company’s Stage 2 commercial plant is well underway, according to an investor update. Now the company producing aluminium materials for high tech industry has turned its attention to the development…
Origin Energy ditches hydrogen, focuses on storage
Electricity and gas supplier Origin Energy is to abandon its involvement in the Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub in a blow for green hydrogen hopes in Australia. The company said it was exiting the proposed 55MW HVHH project and halting hydrogen plans because of uncertainty over the pace and timing of hydrogen market development, and the…
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…
Orica decarbonises chemicals, fertiliser and explosives production
Chemicals and explosives manufacturer Orica is to deploy tertiary emissions abatement technology at a second site – its Yarwun chemicals and ammonium nitrate facility in Gladstone, Queensland (pictured). Orica expects to eliminate an estimated 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) annually once the project is complete. The installation of two tertiary abatement reactors at…
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Orica announces executive appointments including new CFO Explosives technology group Orica has announced changes to its executive committee. Chief Financial Officer, Kim Kerr has decided to leave Orica and James Crough has been appointed as CFO. James joined Orica in May 2019 as Vice President of Finance, Australia Pacific and Asia. Subsequently, he was Interim…
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DXN in biggest data centre sale Modular data centre manufacturer DXN has signed a contract to supply four cable landing stations for the East Micronesia Cable System. The contracts, worth $5.7 million, is DXN’s largest contract to date. The contracts are for telecommunications operators in the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru and Kiribati and are…
Alpha HPA progresses battery metals precursor production
Aluminium chemicals company Alpha HPA has continued to develop its Stage 1, battery materials Precursor Production Facility (PPF) in Gladstone, Queensland. The company told investors that following first small scale commercial production of high purity aluminium nitrate (Al-nitrate) precursors in March, the plant was now in production of high purity aluminas (HPA). The company is…
Orica expands with mining chemicals buy
Chemicals and explosives manufacturer Orica is to acquire 100 per cent of the common stock of Cyanco Intermediate 4 Corp. (Cyanco) (the Acquisition) from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (Cerberus) for US$640 million. The acquisition of Cyanco, a US-based leader in the manufacture and distribution of sodium cyanide primarily serving the gold mining…
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Orica the latest to create value from unused land Chemical and explosives business Orica has sold 66 hectares of unused industrial land at Deer Park in Melbourne to UniSuper for $260 million. The sale, stage 1 of a land sale process, netted a net profit after tax of $173 million for the Melbourne company. The…