Emergency spill kits
22 August, 2007 | Supplied by: Brady Australia Pty Ltd
XtremeSorb Spill Control products are designed to help contain and quickly clean up most industrial liquid spills, leaks and drips. The products are claimed to absorb up to 40% more than other similar products in the market.
Filter media for dust collectors
25 July, 2007 | Supplied by: Donaldson Australasia Pty Ltd
Ultra-Web nanofibre cartridge filters capture sub-micron particles achieving 40% lower emissions and are claimed to last twice as long as traditional commodity filters. The web-like layer of nanofibres encourages dust particles to rapidly accumulate on the filter surface building a thin, permeable dust-stopping filter cake.
GasBadge Pro gas monitor
25 July, 2007 | Supplied by: Industrial Scientific Corporation
Industrial Scientific Corporation has enhanced its full-featured, dockable GasBadge Pro single gas monitor by introducing an electrochemical hydrogen sensor option.
Briqetting waste at source
25 July, 2007 | Supplied by: Orwak Solutions Pty Ltd
SRS of Sommerville, Victoria is repacking meat under a supply contract to Coles stores and wanted to implement an efficient method of disposing of its recyclable waste, which is a steady flow of cardboard boxes
Name change sweeps in a new era
16 July, 2007
The MacDonald Johnston Engineering Company, with a 55-year history in supplying street sweeping and refuse collection equipment, is now known as MacDonald Johnston.
Automatic spill barrier system
22 June, 2007 | Supplied by: Blobel Environmental Engineering
The BL/BED-PM fully automatic doorway spill barrier system is designed to contain spills, contaminated firefighting water, fire suppressant foam and sprinkler water.
Hydraulics drive a new benchmark for waste management
11 May, 2007 | Supplied by: Hagglunds Drives Pty Ltd
In 1998 the seven local Perth councils comprising the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) sent 87% of all domestic waste to landfill
Turning elephant dung into paper
07 May, 2007
A Sri-Lankan company that turns elephant dung into eco-friendly paper won a global competition for projects that benefit local communities and the environment
Reducing the odour of biosolids
23 February, 2007
The cost of biosolid treatment and hauling is a major expenditure for wastewater treatment utilities. Pathogens and odour problems may restrict the biosolid disposal options and affect hauling costs
Solution for hazardous solid wastes
29 January, 2007 | Supplied by: ITs Green
Evashred Shredders has an updated range of mobile shredders and accessories to improve the automation during hazardous waste collection. At the centre of its technology is its EV60C Shredder. A range of accessories to automate pick-up and handling for the operator/driver is also available.
Electric cable recycling
29 January, 2007 | Supplied by: ITs Green
Guidetti Srl has developed a range of compact electric cable recycling units. Each of the Sincro units accepts copper cored electric cable and after processing and sorting they provide PVC and the copper granules. The cable pieces are fed into the hopper and there is no need for further labour input.
Recycling: the key to sustainability
20 December, 2006 by Wendy Cramer, Journalist
Although Australian businesses are still not required by law to have a sustainability program in place, an increasing number of companies are successfully manufacturing new and useful products out of recycled content
Intelligent robots help minimise waste
20 December, 2006
UniSA's Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research (CAMR), in collaboration with industry partner Dematec, has developed a novel automated manufacturing process by introducing the zero waste management principle
Improving packaging sustainability
20 October, 2006
The Sustainable Packaging Alliance has received two significant Commonwealth government grants to support the development of its prototype rapid packaging environmental impact assessment tool, PIQET.
Balances
20 October, 2006 | Supplied by: http://www.quantum-scientific.com.au/
Shimadzu Electronic Balances include the UniBloc Systems range of top-loading balances, analytical balances and semi-micro units as well as high precision and high capacity platform balances. All balances feature the latest digital processing technology ensuring good resolution, stability, increased sensitivity, rapid response times and reliable operation.
