“The message that I like to get across is we as a company really see sustainability as a design challenge; as a matter of fact when I spoke yesterday at the conference I sort of challenged everyone in the audience to consider themselves as being a designer,” explained Jake Layes, Autodesk’s head of sustainability and clean technology for Asia Pacific.
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Alcoa refinery in Wagerup to up output
Alcoa’s Wagerup alumina refinery has gained approval to increase production, despite locals’ health concerns.
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Fuel spill at Caltex terminal
A leak at Banksmeadow’s Caltex terminal has seen three hospitalised and 175,000 litres of fuel spilled after an accident during regular valve maintenance.
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Stop dithering on Nyrstar smelter upgrade legislation: SA Opposition
The South Australian opposition has accused the state’s government of dragging its feet on introducing legislation that would enable an upgrade of Nyrstar’s Port Pirie lead and zinc smelter.
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US company looks to Karratha for biofuel plant
US-based company Aurora Algae is building a $300 million plant next year in Karratha, which has what has been called an ideal climate for microalgae production.
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Arnott’s factory gets grant to help reduce its carbon footprint
Arnott’s has received a $113,254 grant through the federal Clean Technology Investment Program to upgrade its Huntingwood plant’s processes and reduce its carbon output.
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Amcor Alphington site closer to being sold
Amcor might be closer to selling its Alphington site after winning the support of a local action group.
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Manufacturing clean technology solutions with Autodesk
Autodesk, Nexus eWater, and the federal government's Clean Technologies Supplier Advocate Mark Newson discuss some of the opportunities available to new clean technology companies.
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American researchers create steel without carbon emissions
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have engineered a way to make high-purity steel without producing carbon emissions.
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Chemical factory fire at Campbellfield
Fire fighters were summoned to a chemical recycling factory fire in Melbourne’s north at 11 pm on Wednesday night.
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Green Chemistry tries to find safer, more sustainable industrial solutions
Chemical manufacturing is treated with suspicion by some, due to examples such as the Bhopal Union Carbide disaster in 1984, but the Green Chemistry movement hopes to change this perception.
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Manufacturer MBD making waste useful with algal technology
James Cook University and MBD Energy have been collaborating on bio-manufacturing techniques that can make algae both a feedstock for prawns and an industrial waste treatment solution.
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Ammonia leak at Orica Kooragang Island factory
Orica and the Environmental Protection Agency are investigating an ammonia leak that occurred at Orica’s Kooragang Island ammonia plant yesterday at approximately 1:15 pm.
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Orica talks partnerships, mercury issues at AGM
Orica has addressed its business strategy and concerns about toxicity tests at its Port Botany site at the company’s AGM.
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Endress + Hauser relocates Australian HQ
The Australian headquarters of Swiss-based Endress + Hauser have moved to Macquarie Park, NSW.
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Fire destroys factory in Narangba
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service workers are at the site of a fire at a former kangaroo leather tannery in Narangba, 34 km north of Brisbane's CBD.
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