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Transforming manufacturing through research  11/2/2011
Transforming manufacturing through research
$300 million in manufacturing research funding across 1000 projects will help develop currency made of sugar cane and lightweight car parts – and that’s just for starters.
Boeing advances carbon fibre recycling  10/25/2011
Boeing advances carbon fibre recycling
In desert "aircraft graveyards", where retired planes often go when flight service ends, good parts are removed and sold and many materials are recycled.
Additive manufacturing emerges into mainstream  10/20/2011
Additive manufacturing emerges into mainstream
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is the process of fusing layers of materials together, and is being talked about as a "game-changer" for manufacturing in the future.
Table salt holds key to HD data recording density discovery  10/20/2011
Table salt holds key to HD data recording density discovery
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a way of increasing the data recording density of hard disks, and humble table salt is the key ingredient in ...
Engineers make hydrophobic interaction discovery  10/12/2011
Engineers make hydrophobic interaction discovery
A new equation developed by University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) chemical engineers solves the mystery of forces between water-repelling and water-attracting molecules ...
Wonder material graphene given research boost  10/12/2011
Wonder material graphene given research boost
Graphene, the world’s thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, has received a huge research boost in the UK, set to bring the material into mainstream global commercialisation. ...
Tyre recycling breakthrough nears commercial launch  10/9/2011
Tyre recycling breakthrough nears commercial launch
A new recycling process could be the answer to alleviating the environmental burden of old tyres.
Magic weed cleans up toxic chrome  9/19/2011
Magic weed cleans up toxic chrome
Using a noxious weed to clean up a toxic metal can rid the environment of two harmful substances, protecting people, water life, soil health and food crops, a new study has found.
Asia's e-waste pollution may spread worldwide  9/19/2011
Asia's e-waste pollution may spread worldwide
Thousands of tonnes of toxic e-waste are entering the world’s atmosphere, oceans, fresh waters, soils and foodstuffs every year. This is now spreading round the planet, including ...
Aluminium industry outlook mixed: AAC  9/12/2011
Aluminium industry outlook mixed: AAC
Australia is a leader in the production of bauxite, alumina and aluminium, and growth potential exists, just as long as the policy environment does not reduce the attractiveness of ...
Prepare now for the end of the boom, economist warns  9/12/2011
Prepare now for the end of the boom, economist warns
The resources boom is not costless. What happens when it ends? Australia needs to prepare.
Emerging chemicals pose environmental concerns  9/11/2011
Emerging chemicals pose environmental concerns
There is growing scientific concern over the combined impact of novel toxic chemicals on the environment worldwide, according to leading international scientists.
Business creatively meeting the sustainability challenge  9/6/2011
Business creatively meeting the sustainability challenge
The question of sustainability is often seen to be at odds with industry and sound economic management – but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.
Figures show economy getting patchier  8/30/2011
Figures show economy getting patchier
The patchwork economy seems to be getting patchier by the day.
Aussie researchers discover superdense aluminium  8/29/2011
Aussie researchers discover superdense aluminium
An international research team has discovered a new material, superdense aluminium, which has never before been found on Earth.
Australian manufacturing at a crossroads  8/27/2011
Australian manufacturing at a crossroads
The government says Australia is recreating itself, and building a new economy on a new type of manufacturing. Industry sees it differently.
Plain packaging may butt out ailing tobacco industries  8/23/2011
Plain packaging may butt out ailing tobacco industries
The Australian Government has big tobacco companies panicking with the introduction of a tobacco product plain packaging bill to Parliament in July.
Synthetic biology comes of age as answer to industrial problems  8/19/2011
Synthetic biology comes of age as answer to industrial problems
Synthetic biology, while still a relatively new field, is already well advanced to deliver solutions to common industrial waste and energy challenges.
Tequila plant could fuel vehicles and help reduce emissions  8/2/2011
Tequila plant could fuel vehicles and help reduce emissions
Large scale farms of the agave plant used to make the drink tequila could be established in Australia's arid inland as a novel and greenhouse-friendly solution to our transport fuel ...
Scientists invent heat-regulating building material  7/7/2011
Scientists invent heat-regulating building material
A new material that can retain and release heat according to specific temperature requirements could make a significant difference to the cost of heating and cooling buildings, ...
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