Whether using hand spray guns or robots, long paint supply lines and atomisers must be thoroughly cleaned with solvent between each paint change. Both paint and solvent are wasted, increasing costs and causing negative impact on the environment [ + ]

The Australian government provides a range of grants to companies that are developing innovative technologies. The level of competition is high, but there are a few simple steps that you can take to improve your company's chances of funding success [ + ]

David Barke's Retravision, in Rosebud, was filling and paying for the removal of several bins with expanded polystyrene or EPS each week. This was not only costly, but the bins took up a large area of valuable space [ + ]

So you don't like eating peas? Then how about fuelling your car or truck with them? That's a possibility Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are exploring - using a type of fuel called ethanol, made from the legume's starch [ + ]

Solar thermal energy is emerging as a potentially cost-competitive source of electrical power, especially in combination with clean coal, a new study has found [ + ]

In these times of rising fuel prices and changing climate, the search for alternatives to fossil fuels has gained high priority. Franhofer researchers have developed a new process for converting rapeseed oil into biodiesel. Enzymes make it possible [ + ]

A south-east Queensland pineapple farm has made huge savings in production costs and water use, as well as significant improvements in yield and fruit quality [ + ]

A dust explosion occurred in a large storage silo holding dried sewage sludge. The sludge was dried in a gas-fired, air-convection dryer and stored in the silo until discharged into trucks and hauled away [ + ]

Donaldson Australasia has provided the waste handling system and engineering to facilitate a win/win recycling loop between Australia's sheet-fed print communications business and Visy Recycling [ + ]

Campbell Arnott's has completed a $19 million upgrade to its Arnott's Biscuit bakery in New South Wales. The upgrade included the Dolav bulk bin which is used inside and outside the factory [ + ]

Snow Confectionery is implementing a world first in vacuum pump technology - designed to reduce water consumption by 50% and save seven million litres of water every year [ + ]

The Environmental Biotechnology CRC (EBCRC), together Organic Resource Technologies (ORT) and Murdoch University, is using biotechnology in a $1.3m project to enhance a process that can convert large amounts of organic waste to compost more efficiently [ + ]

Reynolds Engineering Services has designed a FOD (foreign objects and debris) station to address problems associated with the existing FOD/waste collection points on airport aprons [ + ]

Arterra, the landscape company responsible for creating a new exterior for a McDonald's Restaurant, has installed water saving features in almost every part of the landscape [ + ]

The relatively recent approval of ozone for use with food by the US Federal Drug Administration has resulted in the rapid expansion of ozone usage in food applications. This segment remains the fastest growing use of ozone gas [ + ]