Sponsored Failures of quality management and resulting problems, such as expensive food recalls, generally draw more attention than businesses running smoothly, which tend to go unnoticed. Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) counted 836 food recalls for the decade to 2024, with undeclared allergens the leading reason. Even the unspectacular recalls, unlike the more memorable berry saga…
EV Fire Protection, a Brisbane-based company developing fire suppression products for electric vehicle parking bays, has announced the independent verification of “effectiveness, safety, and compliance with international standards” for its EV FirePro system. According to a statement from the company this week, it used Applus+ Laboratories in Spain for the tests due to an absence…
Battery recycling technology company Livium has announced firm commitments to raise $4.5 million through a share placement, with funding to support efforts including expansion of its large-format lithium battery collections across Australia, and the relocation and consolidation of its Victorian battery-recycling facilities into a centralised site. According to a statement from the ASX-listed company on…
Husband-and-wife-led material science company Great Wrap is in administration, with a reported $39 million in debts, citing a slump in demand as retailers and FMCG businesses began to recycle plastic in-house. Great Wrap was founded in 2019 by Jordy and Julia Kay, a winemaker and an architect respectively. They launched their first stretch wrap product…
GFG Alliance-owned steel recycler InfraBuild has won the Innovation of the Year award at the annual Steelie Awards, hosted by the World Steel Association (worldsteel.) Tracey Sen (pictured left), Executive General Manager of Communications, represented the company at the event in Washington, DC and which was hosted by the industry group representing 85 per cent…
Austrian-headquartered Erema Group, the world leader in plastic recycling equipment, has made an unspecified strategic investment in Brisbane textile recycling technology startup BlockTexx. The two companies shared the news at industry fair the K show in Düsseldorf, Germany this week, saying the development is aimed at scaling “post-consumer textile-to-textile recycling to industrial levels”. BlockTexx was…
Modular construction company Oly Homes has won at the 2025 Master Builders Queensland Housing & Construction Awards in the Prefabricated and Modular Housing category for its Thursday Island project, with eight homes built at its Sunshine Coast factory before being delivered and installed over 1,700 kilometres away. According to a statement from the company on…
Wagner Sustainable Fuels and its partners have commissioned an Australian-first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blending terminal at Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport, which it says is also the first such blending terminal “co-located at an airport globally”. “The launch of our Toowoomba Terminal is the start of our plans to deliver [decarbonisation] benefits and meet the aviation…
The federal government’s Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) process “has lost its way”, lobby group Science & Technology Australia (STA) has said, following a release of six issues papers from the SERD panel. According to a statement from STA on Wednesday, the “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to build a more complex, innovation-based economy has instead failed on…
Adelaide-based REDARC Electronics has released its new REDARC Lithium Adventure Batteries (REDLAB) for four-wheel-drive and outdoor travel enthusiasts, available in 100Ah, 200Ah, and 300Ah models. In a statement on Tuesday, REDARC described the range as rated IP67 construction (completely dust-tight and able to withstand immersion in up to a metre of water for 30 minutes),…