XTEK’s HighCom awarded new armour order XTEK has announced that its HighCom Armor Solutions division has received an international purchase order to supply ballistic body armour to an undisclosed European customer, worth $2.6 million. Scott Basham, XTEK Group’s CEO, said on Monday that the armour business — across manufacturing in Columbus, Ohio, XTclave technology development…
Applications opened on Tuesday morning for the Plastics Technology stream of the federal Recycling Modernisation Fund, offering grant funding of between $1 million and $20 million each to projects concerned with hard-to-recycle plastics. According to a statement from federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek, up to $60 million in total would support projects including: advanced recycling…
A proposed national framework aimed at improving trust in recycled materials has moved forward with the release of a new discussion paper. The country’s environment ministers met last month and agreed to progress an initiative on recycled content traceability. According to a statement from federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek on Tuesday, this would allow users…
The CSIRO is opening another round of its free, ten-week Innovate to Grow program, this time for SMEs working on the issue of plastic waste. Applications are being accepted until August 14 for the round, with a cohort of up to 20 companies to commence the part-time course on September 7. It aims to assist…
Japan’s Kanematsu Corporation has made an investment in Australian environmental technology startup Samsara Eco. According to a statement from Samsara – which has developed an enzyme-based process to dissolve end-of-life plastic back into its component monomers for reuse – trading company Kanematsu acquired the strategic stake by accepting Samsara’s third-party allotment of shares. “Through this…
Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed new methods to solve a major source of future waste from the automotive, aerospace and renewable industries. They have developed a new recycling method for carbon and glass fibre composites in a bid to prevent end-of-generation materials going to landfill. Published in the journal Composites Part B:…
Twenty-four projects have been awarded a total of $50 million in grant funding through round 14 of the Cooperative Research Centre-Projects, including projects involving Gilmour Space Technologies, Diraq and First Graphene. CRC-Ps offer funding of between $100,000 and $3 million for a project which must be at least dollar-matched by participants. Projects can be up…
Plastic packaging manufacturer Pact Group has announced a new partnership with Aldi, which will see Pact offer recycled PET and HDPE packaging options to the supermarket’s suppliers. According to a statement from Pact on Thursday, the partnership will see recycled plastic packaging from the company’s NSW and Queensland factories made for Aldi’s own brand products.…
Building and construction products manufacturer Boral has taken part in the largest crumbed rubber asphalt demonstration project in Australia, providing 2,000 tonnes of pavement material in addition to 1,200 tonnes of controlled asphalt mix to be paved across eight local Sydney council streets. Comprising recycled rubber from end-of-life car and truck tyres, crumbed rubber asphalt…
Environment ministers led by federal Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek have stepped in to force mandatory action to reduce and recycle packaging in a strong rebuke for the pace of adopting recycling by the packaging industry. The ministers threatened to take similar mandatory rules to the textile and clothing sector if it…
