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The ‘Shorts’ project: steel manufacturer collaborates on cobot design

Partnering with the Australian Cobotics Centre, steel maker InfraBuild was able to design and test a cobot for production line work, rather than going straight to a robotics integrator.

When steel manufacturer InfraBuild approached the Australian Cobotics Centre (ACC) a year ago, they were looking for a collaborative robotic solution to a repetitive and potentially risky manual task.

InfraBuild’s production line churns out hot steel bars in a range of shapes and sizes. To remove short,‘off-spec’ bars, the company employs several people sharing a 12-hour rotating shift to pick out any short items, or ‘shorts’, and throw them off the conveyor. It is intense work, requiring constant focus to reduce risk.

InfraBuild was clear about what it wanted: better working conditions for its employees, lower fixed costs, and better product quality and therefore customer satisfaction.

“We charge a premium for quality. Customers get upset if they’ve got a slightly short product in their bundle,” says Andrew Thomas, InfraBuild’s Industry 4.0 Program Lead.

“Lights and ribbed debar moving on a conveyor can be disorienting, too. There’s not been any major incidents but we are always looking at improving our safety to reduce the potential for an accident.”

“Using the cobot, we will save on labour and be even more cost-efficient against imports, and can maintain the premium price because we have the best quality.”

Impressed with the development work being done at the ACC’s industrial robot and testing space in Brisbane at ARM Hub (another ACC partner), InfraBuild and the ACC began the Centre’s first collaborative project, known as ‘The Shorts Project’.

Why use the ACC

The ACC works to solve manufacturing problems with collaborative robots — or cobots — in a way that creates a safer, more efficient and competitive industry, and by taking ethical contexts into account.

The Centre fills a gap for industry by acting as a testing ground for companies’ ideas, allowing firms like InfraBuild to explore outcomes, rather than wasting potential time and money by going directly to a robotic integrator without a well-defined project.

“Our job at the Cobotics Centre is often to work out how a cobot can perform a task,” says Jonathan Roberts, the ACC’s Director. “If we’re successful or unsuccessful then a company such as Infrabuild can go to a robot integration company, armed with our results, to better inform that company on how a solution might be possible.

“Either way, [success or failure] would be a win-win because it lowers the risk of failure for everyone involved.”

Testing times

InfraBuild’s problem was that off-theshelf solutions to automate the detection and removal of ‘shorts’ couldn’t deal with the variety of bars produced by the steel manufacturer.

ACC’s team of engineers and researchers from Queensland University of Technology and

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University of Technology, Sydney, worked with InfraBuild’s team at the steel mill to design and test a handful of possible solutions over six months.

This involved building a life-sized, working version of InfraBuild’s conveyor system and using an industrial robot to pick up and move steel bars.

“We tested about five different iterations — there’s a blooper reel of all the versions tested!” said Thomas.

The solution

The ACC engineers eventually developed a flexible system using a large, industrial-sized cobot that had adjustable inbuilt and external sensors to manipulate more of the different steel bars that InfraBuild makes – even those it might make in the future – while working safely around workers.

Roberts says the cobot’s simple hook which picked up the shorts was the “genius” part of the concept.

“The hook was the tricky thing, and it took a lot of innovation. A typical engineering approach would have been to design a fancy gripping system or magnetic system that’d need maintenance, power, and be expensive — but we wanted something passive and low-maintenance that could be replaced within 10 minutes if something went wrong with it.”

Before the steel bars reach the cobot, cameras identify the short bar. Identification is based on algorithms in the vision system which then sends that position’s coordinates down the line to the cobot.

The cobot then uses the hook to lift and flick the bars off the conveyor, using the same movement and conveyor momentum as InfraBuild’s staff do manually.

Tests showed the cobot can handle as much variety as people do now — about half a dozen products of different lengths and weights. And there was another benefit: the cobot never missed.

“We expect the cobot to pick up all the shorts on the roller table. In tests, it didn’t matter how many bars were on the table, the cobot picked up all the shorts,” says Thomas.

Design thinking

When solving industrial problems, the ACC uses a biomimicry lens: looking at how people are currently doing a job and designing a cobot to mimic it. It’s not the way a typical engineer would initially approach it — measuring and weighing steel rods up to 30kg each and concluding that what’s needed is a gripper or series of grippers which can lift 30kg.

“But if you use biomimics-coloured glasses you say ‘hang on, these people doing the job now could not easily lift 30kg with one arm’,” says Roberts.

“You can see they pick up one end of the bar and, with some of the weight still on the conveyor, they then flick it, using the momentum of the moving bar, too.”

Importantly, Infrabuild did not want to be locked into a cobot-only solution.

The company wanted the solution to fit into existing operations rather than requiring extensive changes to plant, equipment or processes. A cobot meant a straight-forward implementation and the option to switch back to manual if, for some reason, the cobot failed.

“Another good reason for a biomimicry perspective is that if something happens and the robot needs to be fixed, we want a person to step in and do the job while it’s being fixed. We needed flexibility to switch back to manual if possible.”

Roberts says it’s likely that InfraBuild could wheel the cobot in to where a person now stands and when it’s not needed, it could be wheeled out.

“Cobots were also chosen,” says Thomas, “because they are designed to work around people so you don’t have to have interlocking guarding and exclusion areas.”

Thomas says they also wanted to avoid “exotic” parts, in order to simplify maintenance and repairs.

“We used locally available, bog-standard components so it’s easy to replace anything. The simplicity of the hook was important because steel will wear it out.”

Ethics, jobs and benefits

For the ACC, ethics are always in mind.

“If you’re doing backbreaking work of any kind and we know that using a collaborative robot is a better way … then it should be used. It’s like the old coal-mining practice of putting children down mines into tight spaces — the world knew that was bad option,” says Roberts.

“I think with some of these new technologies we’ll be ethically compelled to use them.”

As for jobs, InfraBuild has plenty of less monotonous and safer work for current employees. Generally, Roberts says cobots could save otherwise dwindling businesses, which will in turn save jobs.

“The whole conversation has been flipped around because, at the moment, many businesses can’t find enough people for jobs so we need to use these new technologies to keep companies competitive and running.”

“The hook was the tricky thing, and it took a lot of innovation.” “...it didn’t matter how many bars were on the table, the cobot picked up all the shorts”

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Upon election, the government froze payments under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, causing consternation among affected businesses.

Industry Update called on the government to honour existing commitments, and it’s a relief to see this delivered. Budget spending measures, as outlined in detail in Minister Husic’s column in this edition, include $114 million to strengthen domestic manufacturing capability, and around $10 million to support an expansion of the BAE Systems-Flinders University Factory of the Future.

The budget also allocates $47 million over six years for developing talent in science and technology, including to support women in technology and to fund quantum technology PhDs. This follows investments by the former government in promoting collaboration between universities and industry. Industry Update applauds these programs. Indeed, we’ve backed the agenda with our own recently established section covering ‘Universities, research and collaboration’.

But there’s no escaping the net funding cut to industry.

Labor is framing the cuts as transitional – sweeping away the former government’s agenda on the path to launching its own program, which it says will dwarf existing schemes.

The centrepiece of Labor’s industry agenda is the National Reconstruction Fund, ultimately to be worth $15 billion. The October budget includes $50 million to kick off the fund but the big dollars are to be allocated later.

Labor claims the fund will be a more rigorous, systematic and armslength approach to industry funding than some of the former government’s handouts, which were arguably conveniently timed for elections.

Instead of handouts, the new fund will support industry financing through loans, equity investments 6 and guarantees. An independent board will make investment decisions and be guided by an investment mandate.

“Our commitment to a National Reconstruction Fund will see $15 billion injected into Australian manufacturing supporting a range of industries including critical technologies, medical science, renewables and

low-emissions tech, defence capability, transport and value-add for resources,” Minister Husic’s spokesperson said.

It’s still early days for the National Reconstruction Fund, not yet at the consultation phase. It can’t be satisfactorily evaluated until we know more.

As the nation emerges from the 2 pandemic, Australian industry is at a crossroads. Industry policy settings are more important than ever.

Manufacturing employs more than 830,000 Australians, according to September ABS labour force statistics.

You’d never believe it from the mainstream media but that is around triple the mining industry and far greater than finance or agriculture. The Australian Manufacturing Growth Centre counts manufacturing employment as even more – 1.3 million with the inclusion of indirect jobs. Australian manufacturing was crucial to the country’s ability to weather the Covid crisis. As disruptive as Covid was for supply chains, geopolitical risks could lead to far greater strains. Australian governments must seize this moment to maintain and build their manufacturing sectors to protect national security.

Industry Update acknowledges the ambition of the proposed $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund. It’s not surprising that a program of this scale is still under development. As such, we are giving the government the benefit of the doubt despite the initial cuts.

We will be watching closely.

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AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST CIRCULATING MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE MANUFACTURING MAGAZINE Issue 123 Nov 2021 - Jan 2022 $12.00 INC.GST Australia’s comparatively strong position emerging from covid-19 would not have been possible without the exemplary performance of its businesses. The government needs to guarantee they will not be punished for their diligence.Withstanding a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic with remarkable agility and resilience, Australian businesses transformed their day-to-day operations in response to fast moving public health developments and changing government requirements.Overwhelmingly they have upheld challenging health orders, sometimes at considerable cost, while simultaneously dealing with a downturn in revenue. But the compact between business and government must be a two-way street. Businesses must feel secure that their good faith efforts to uphold the law, and to protect workers and consumers, will not come back to bite them.On 1 September 2021, the former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian appeared to tell employers to make sure workers were vaccinated: “If you’re a business, start dusting off your COVIDsafety plan. Make sure your employees are vaccinated so we can get back to life at 70 per cent double-dose vaccination.” Wherever you stand on vaccine mandates, many businesses reasonably interpreted these sorts of comments as

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COVID-19 caused a switch in Australian consumer preferences. Concerns about health, quality and availability combined to bring the provenance of purchases into sharp focus, while a desire to support the domestic economy and create jobs during the crisis saw more consumers prioritise locally made goods. Fad or ongoing favour? Research from Roy Morgan2 shows 93 per cent of Australians were more likely to buy products made in Australia in 2020 – up from 87 per cent the previous year. A Brand New World3 study by Junkee Media also shows a growing preference for local goods, particularly among young Australians, with 55 per cent saying they were buying more local and Australianmade products since the pandemic. More than 45 per cent also say they’ve saved money as a result. “By supporting the Australian-made push, consumers are helping to future-proof The future looks local jobs in a critical industry,” says Kelly. “Manufacturing represents about seven per cent of employment.” “By supporting the Australianmade push, consumers are helping to future-proof jobs in a critical Australian industry.” Matthew Kelly, Head of Manufacturing and Wholesale NSW, St.George Bank Enduring success for Australian-made goods will be driven by quality, experts believe. But will the renewed consumer focus on Australian-made goods be a passing fad or ongoing priority? Jens Goennemann, Managing Director, Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, believes loyalty will only go so far. “If we think we can bet on a pandemic to boost manufacturing, we are ill-advised,” he says. “Today, a customer may say they’ll continue to proudly support ‘Made in Australia’, but if the product doesn’t stand up in quality to what they can get from Singapore, Korea, Germany or the US, that loyalty will fade very quickly. People will pay for quality. Just being an Australian manufacturer is not good enough.” 2. Preference for Australian-made goods rises in 2020; but plunges for Chinese-made goods, Roy Morgan, May 2021 3. Brand New World, Junkee Media, August 2021

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That fatality occurred on 17th May 2019 at a wrecking yard in Rocklea, when a reversing forklift struck an employee.The charge of industrial manslaughter includes allegations that Brisbane Auto Recycling caused the death of their worker by failing to effectively separate pedestrians from mobile plant, and failed to effectively supervise workers, including the operators of mobile plant. The charges against the directors relate INDUSTRIAL MANSLAUGHTER IN THE DOCK The concept of industrial manslaughter in Australia is set to face its first test with the first prosecution launched under Queensland’s two-year-old industrial manslaughter laws. That the prosecution comes at the same time that Victoria is in the process of passing its own legislation only serves to highlight the process.

TEN READERS WILL WIN $100 EACH PAGE 63 Continued page 6 PRINT MEDIA CONTINUE TO BLOOMReadership is continuing to grow for print products in Australia, with IbisWorld valuing the print-media industry at $3 billion in 2018.But if you think that $3 billion in print revenue in 2018 is impressive, in the USA all print products - newspapers, magazines and periodicals - were valued at over $90 billion in 2018.Equally fascinating is the fact that the total number of magazine readers has actually grown in the past five years (according to research by Statistica). In trade media, it is no secret that Industry Update magazine has enjoyed growth in print, online and video media in 2019.With such a vast array of online media offerings that Continued page 6 INJECTION MOULDING MACHINES BACKED BY A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE PAGE 29

$1000TAKE OUR QUIZ GIVEAWAY Sydney, 7 June 2022: The stage was set for a showcase of the latest manufacturing technology and cutting-edge innovation, as the inaugural Australian Manufacturing Week (AMW) exhibition took place at Darling Harbour in NSW. The show sprawled over 4,300 square metres in two halls at the International Convention Centre, over four days, with 170 exhibitors attracting 6,000+ visitors. This major trade show presented the latest manufacturing technologies, processes and support services.Owned and operated by AMTIL, AMW is Australia’s premier manufacturing solutions event. Under the theme ‘Where technology meets innovation’, AMW 2022 attracted larger crowds and exhibitor interest than expected. Floor space was almost entirely booked out well before the end of last year. AMTIL has operated Austech for over 20 years, Australia’s premier advanced manufacturing and machine tool exhibition. The last Austech – held in May 2019 in Melbourne – was attended by industry professionals from across Australia and around the world, with more than 170 organisations showcasing state-of-the-art manufacturing hardware, software A concerning industry fact confirms that of all new air compressors sold into Australian industry, the great majority are fixed speed models with only a relatively small number having variable speed functionality.Given that energy costs are rapidly and constantly rising, this is both a surprising and disappointing statistic clearly showing that the Australian Industry are either oblivious to or are ignoring what is a major energy saving factor in the generation of compressed air. With both energy efficiency and environmental benefits paramount in today’s industrial and general society, fixed speed compressors simply do not offer the maximum energy savings that are possible. As input energy used to generate compressed air is second only to air conditioning in industrial operating costs, even the smallest savings can significantly reduce total ‘off the grid’ Air Liquide proves a game changer in Additive Manufacturing Industry Naive to Energy Saving Compressed Air Technology

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www.industryupdate.com.au The growth of the manufacturing sector has been charted by the Ai Group Performance of Manufacturing Index, which peaked in March to a record high while marking 18 consecutive months of growth.Besa Deda is Chief Economist for St.George Bank, and having analysed the data is keen to highlight the continuing improvement in some of the subindexes of the Australian PMI. “It’s particularly encouraging,” she says, “that the new orders subindex is at a record high.”And while she is cautious about Australia’s exposure to any trade war involving China and the USA, Besa Deda points to a combination of factors fuelling the growth of the manufacturing sector. “There’s a bulging pipeline of infrastructure projects – particularly in New South Wales, and when you view this against a background of robust global economic growth, the opportunities are there for manufacturing to prosper.”Bizarrely, the threat of a global trade war seems to have worked in favour of Australian industry – in the short term at least – by softening the value of the Aussie dollar.Nonetheless, the nation’s reliance on export markets has increased in recent years. According to Minister for Jobs and Innovation Senator Michaelia Cash: “Australia’s access to global international markets will be fundamental to the continued health and success of our local manufacturing industry.“We export more than $20 billion a year more today than we did a decade ago. Australian exporters have, in fact, sold $2.7 trillion to the global economy over the last decade. “More Australian manufacturers are exporting under the Coalition Government. For every $1 of revenue the sector generates, 28 cents comes from abroad. That’s up from 23 cents a decade ago,” says Senator Cash.Besa Deda from St.George also sees positives in the manufacturing employment statistics. “Although manufacturing employment as a proportion of the economy as a whole is in a long-term decline, the recent gains are encouraging,” she says, pointing to nearly 10,000 new manufacturing jobs and increasing capital expenditure plans in the sector.One word of warning, though, comes from financial analyst illion, which noted in its most recent Australian Business Expectations Survey that one in three manufacturers had reported customers or suppliers become insolvent or unable to pay them in the preceding 12 months, highlighting cashflow as the second-biggest barrier to growth in the year ahead, after utilities and operating costs

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INDUSTRY UPDATES FIRST EVER PIN-UP Check Out the Latest Hot Stuff in Safety Page 32-33 It is all systems go for the industry sector after the release of the $1.5 billion manufacturing package this month, which the federal government believes will energise the sector in the wake of the recession precipitated by COVID-19.Industry Minister Karen Andrews said this kind of investment would address the short-term recovery, as well as the future, creating jobs and boosting investment at a time when it is most wanted.“This is the kind of laser focus we need to create jobs and foster the successful environment for manufacturing to flourish more broadly.“Tinkering at the edges on manufacturing policy is not an option. It has not worked in the past. AUSTAL ACCELERATES SHIPBUILDING WITH EATON SMART WIRING SYSTEM PAGE 54 Packserv Brings New Capabilities Nathan Wardell of Packserv is bringing groundbreaking new capabilities to the marketplace but remains a team player.

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It may be seen as a bit of an irony to suggest that there has never been a much better time for manufacturing business to bask in the glory of public attention, especially during a time of covid pandemic. But according to Chief Executive Innes Willox from peak employer AiGroup,it is a time for the sector to seize the day before it escapes us, as the crucial role of Manufacturing in a progressive economy such as Australia’s can no longer be understated.The manufacturing sector is now considered to have capacity to contribute to more than the current 6 percent to the country’s GDP and it’s usually missed that the sector also provides essential and crucial contribution. Albeit with some setbacks during the pandemic the sector has managed to keep afloat during this critical time out of sheer resilience and economic determination to survive.Before COVID 19 broke out the Australian manufacturing sector clocked up to $100 billion contribution to the Australian GDP, employed 900,000 Australians and accounted for the 26.4% business expenditure on research and development.“It’s becoming clearer by the day that manufacturing is key to our economic survival and will be key to Australia’s economic recovery.” “There’s no doubt that manufacturing now has received much greater prominence especially in government thinking in the understanding of the vital role manufacturing plays.”“There is a lot of reason to be optimistic now that we are going to have a recovery that has manufacturing at its forefront,” says Mr Willox.AiGroup’s leader explains new and emerging doors were opened for the industry when by default it had to, on account of the pandemic. NOT ALL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS ARE CREATED EQUALLY PAGE 36 HYDRO INNOVATIONS PUMP SPECIAL PAGE 57

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Technology to drive future manufacturing The Federal Government has a vision to meld high level technology with traditional manufacturing to create a “smart manufacturing” sector. In an exclusive interview with Industry Update, the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor, outlined the three pillars of its integrated manufacturing, energy and emissions plan. Taylor has previously stated that manufacturing is an essential driver of skills, jobs and capability. “The ability to make things here and do it well is critical to our economy and our economic plan.” The focus, he explained, was to continue building on the success of the National Manufacturing Priorities of Space, Defence, Recycling and Clean Energy, Medical Products, Food and Beverage, and Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Processing.“Over the next 12 months the Government will work with industry to finalise Manufacturing Investment Plans for each priority sector to guide further longterm investment in Australian manufacturing.” According to Taylor, if Australia is strong in those areas then the country will have a sustainable manufacturing sector. PRODUCTIVITY PLUS FOR SAFE MOBILE PLATFORMNow available at a one-off price of $400 and with significant discount for quantity orders, the DarDeck safe step platform can pay for itself in efficiency gains. And the improved safety it brings to any warehousing, retail or maintenance environment could save a fortune in workers compensation and public liability payouts. Designed as a simple and more productive alternative to unstable stepladders and unguarded low work platforms, the Australian designed and manufactured DarDeck combines a solid working platform with safety rails to prevent the user from overbalancing and falling. There is also an integrated shelf to ensure both hands are free when mounting and dismounting.HEALTHY & HAPPY AT WORK 5 EXERCISES TO KEEP YOU FIT AMW PRODUCT ZONES REGISTER NOW AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS AEVENT WHERE TECHNOLOGY MEETS INNOVATION WWW.AUSTRALIANMANUFACTURINGWEEK.COM.AU Australian Manufacturing Week is proudly owned and operated by AMTIL SYDNEY 7-10 June, 2022 ICC SYDNEY

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With investors, governments and even risk-averse super funds funnelling millions into commercialising early stage Australian technology projects, it’s a lucrative time to be an innovative start-up.

University research collaborations are critical to the R&D ecosystem, and UNSW ranks as SCOPR’s* top institution in Australia for startups and commercial spin-offs, particularly in engineering and physical sciences.

“We can only do so much on our own. To get our products to market, we need to collaborate with industry and investors. It’s always been part of our remit but it’s accelerated in the last few years, one of the silver linings from Covid perhaps,” says Warwick Dawson, Director of Knowledge Exchange at UNSW.

One hundred of the latest innovations and capabilities powered by UNSW were on show at the university’s Research Translation Expo in October, where the uni’s entrepreneurs and researchers mixed with businesses, investors and industry partners.

One area the university has always led the way is in solar cell technology.

UNSW’s Sydney Scientia Professor Martin Green invented the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) technology that’s now used in more than 90% of the world’s solar cells, and he and his team have been recognised for this with the prestigious and lucrative 2022 Millennial Technology Prize (see story page 48).

But when Prof. Green developed the PERC technology in the early 80s, his team was unable to manufacture it here at a competitive cost. So the technology was pushed offshore while Green and his team continued R&D on next-generation solutions. One of Green’s PhD students, Zhengrong Shi, set up Suntech Power in China and became the world’s first solar billionaire.

Now, finally, the situation seems to be changing for Australia’s solar industry. The massive Sun Cable project in the NT aims to be the world’s biggest solar and battery storage project, sending most of its renewable energy via undersea cable to Singapore. And there’s local movement in solar cell manufacturing.

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One to watch is SunDrive Solar, started in 2015 by a UNSW PhD student who dropped out of his study to set up the company.

In 2021, it fabricated a world record-breaking solar cell that uses copper rather than silver in its electrodes. In an expanding solar sector, “the industry’s use of silver is growing to a point where it’s unsustainable,” says Jack Colwell, Senior Photovoltaic Engineer for Sundrive Solar and former UNSW PhD student, speaking at the Expo. The industry’s been looking at copper for a while, Colwell told Industry Update, but no one’s really been able to perfect the technology, in particular to get the copper to adhere to the cell. “So the solution SunDrive developed actually gets copper to stick to the cell,” says Colwell. Given the abundance of copper compared with silver, and the purity of the copper that they electroplate, Colwell says this makes the concept viable for large-scale, low-cost and high-performance solar PV cell manufacturing. SunDrive has just received $21 million in private investment to help it scale up its manufacturing, which it plans to start in Australia in 18 months. Seeing the potential for Australian solar cell innovation to be manufactured here is not lost on Daniel Chen, also a former UNSW PhD student and Senior Photovoltaic Engineer with SunDrive. “For us, this opportunity of taking research and applying it to a company in Australia, that’s huge.”

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Continuing in the environmental vein and with the possibility of a market coup in the US, is UNSWaffiliated Vecor Technologies.

Fly-ash is an under-used by-product of burning coal to produce energy. Considered waste, some is used in cement and concrete while much is dumped in ponds or just stored underground.

Vecor is processing fly-ash to make advanced materials for a variety of sectors which will benefit from lower costs and greater sustainability.

One of those sectors is the paint industry, Vecor’s Alec Rowan told Industry Update at the Expo.

“The paint industry uses large quantities of titanium dioxide. It’s one of the whitest substances on the planet and requires heavy refinement.”

Recent supply chain disruption has made sourcing titanium dioxide harder, says Rowan, which is where Vecor’s fly-ash comes in.

“Currently we are developing a ceramic pigment using fly-ash as a partial replacement for titanium dioxide, and we expect to provide the replacement material at a significantly lower cost than titanium dioxide.

“We also expect to improve the customer’s environmental profile by replacing a mined material with a recycled waste product.”

Vecor is now working with potential customers in the US to establish demand for its product. “At the moment we’re working on establishing industrial scale manufacturing processes and continuing product trials,” says Rowan.

“Vecor has been working with UNSW academics Professor Charles Sorrell and Associate Professor Pramod Koshy for more than a decade, and has established dedicated research laboratories at UNSW to support further technical innovation and

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