Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has thrown his weight behind plans to reserve a portion of Australian gas for domestic use following the lead of Western Australia which has had a reservation policy for years which has, in turn, suppressed domestic gas prices. Fresh from an emphatic win in a state election Andrews was asked by…
Australia was the first in the world with a lithium-ion big battery, now North Harbour Clean Energy is promising to build out first big Vanadium Redox Flow Battery. The company, in a joint venture with international battery company CellCube, today announced their first project is to develop the continent’s largest VRFB, which generates 4MW-16MWh. The…
Melbourne university’s Professor Danny Samson looks at the cutting edge of AI and Cloud technologies in his new book Business Model Transformation: the AI and Cloud Revolution. Through case studies he shows the business strategy and performance benefits are not just available for large, listed companies, but can be embraced by Australia’s SMEs through proactive…
Australia’s wine industry is a world leader because of innovation with the FOMENT Accelerator Program formalising and modernising that tradition through its wine, viti and tourism programme scheduled to kick off in February 2023. While innovations such as the wine cask and screw cap have come from individual companies or industry researchers, FORMENT is focused…
Environmental Clean Technologies and Calleja Group have signed a binding MoU to jointly develop a waste innovation hub capable of producing hydrogen and carbon products from wastes at the JBD Industrial Park in Bacchus Marsh in regional Victoria. ECT is developing its COLDry process commercial demonstration project which dries lignite or brown coal with zero…
Chief Executive Officer of technology incubator Cicada Innovations Sally-Ann Williams (pictured) will chair an independent expert review panel for the Pathway to Diversity in STEM Review announced today by the federal government. According to an announcement she was chosen as she is well aware of the environment that women entrepreneurs face and the importance of…
Australian industrial technology developer Calix has confirmed that global building materials manufacturer Cemex is conducting three new carbon capture, utilisation and storage projects utilising its low emissions cement production technology. Cemex S.A.B de C.V had announced three front engineering (FEED) studies to scale CCUS projects at Cemex projects in Germany, Poland and the United States…
Yesterday @AuManufacturing asked what next after Industry Growth Centres? Here John Sheridan looks at the national science organisation and asks, what if CSIRO were ‘let off the leash’? CSIRO is the Australian organisation responsible for scientific research in this country. The organisation was created in the early 20th century, to conduct scientific research to assist…
BlueScope has renewed its commitment to decarbonise its primary steelmaking facilities at Port Kembla in New South Wales, but cautioned that a transition was an enormous challenge for the company. Chairman John Bevan told the company’s annual general meeting that the Port Kembla blast furnaces were a major manufacturing precinct of strategic importance to the…
Rio Tinto has proven the effectiveness of its low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant, and is now planning a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonise the steel value chain. The company’s BioIron process uses raw biomass – wheat straw, canola stalks,…