Mirait wins major fibre backbone

Chamberlain’s focus on sustainability

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 as resources, • Prolonging product life span, and • Provide effective and convenient equipment recovery solutions.

As an example, all soft packaging is recycled into long life plasma fence posts for farms, all pallets go to BORG ReDirect Recycling and recycled into panels for joinery applications and product packaging has been redesigned to eliminate the use of polystyrene.

Local packaging company, Phoenix Packaging Solutions designed and manufacture all Chamberlain’s cartons that are also printed with a water based ink to enable them to be recycled after use.

Additionally, new more energy efficient machinery has been installed including robots and state-of-the-art laser cutters.

Mr Sheekey said the company is ahead of their forecasts to reduce carbon emissions by 89% by the end of 2023. “We are well on our path to become a zero waste to landfill manufacturing facility by 2025,” he said.

“We found our employees want to work for a socially responsible company that understands the importance of sustainability and they are encouraged to contribute by having a voice for their ideas to be heard and implemented.

In recent years Chamberlain, in partnership with Central Coast Industry Connect has established the Central Coast Circular Economy Committee aimed at influencing and driving change in the manufacturing sector on the Central Coast.

Mirait wins major fibre backbone contract

Map showing Vocus fibre network (blue), Project Horizon (red) and proposed link to Singapore (yellow)

TUGGERAH BASED MIRAIT Technologies Australia has won the contract to provide design and construction services for the first competitive fibre backbone between Perth and Port Hedland West Australia.

To be built by one of Australia’s largest fibre and solutions providers, Vocus, the undertaking, which is the first major project under their $1 billion investment programme, known as Project Horizon, is on schedule to begin deployment before the end of this year.

Project Horizon, when completed will will establish a new 2,000km, 38 Terabitper-second fibre route through Australia’s resources region, closing the gap in Vocus’s national fibre backbone connecting all mainland capitals.

The $80 million cable will be the company’s biggest terrestrial network deployment in over a decade and is the first stage of the $1 billion programme.

At Port Hedland, Project Horizon will interconnect with Vocus’s Project Highclere, a planned $100 million, 40Tbps submarine cable between Port Hedland and the Australia Singapore Cable.

Mirait Technologies Australia was founded in 2014 with Japan’s Mirait Technologies Corporation’s investment in CCTS Constructions initially established in 1999.

Mirait CEO Kerry White said, “Mirait are extremely pleased to be selected by Vocus as their key delivery partner and to design and construct Project Horizon. The completion of this crucial link will close the gap in Vocus’s national fibre backbone network.”

Mirait Technologies Australia CEO Kerry White