Flagship $13.6m CRC project backs Food Technology Facility for Western Australia
The CRC has partnered with WA DPIRD and Murdoch University in a cutting-edge R&D hub where agrifood firms will work with leading scientists to create, trial and scale value-adding innovations.
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CERS introduces next-gen chemical engineers to industry leaders
UNSW-based Chemical Engineering Research Society’s CRC-sponsored networking night on 2 June was a resounding success. “Our first professional networking event had more than 160 people from over 40 organisations, ranging from students and academics to industry leaders and award-winning start-ups,” PhD Scientia scholar and CERS president Angie Davina Tjandra told the CRC. “Food companies in attendance included Sanitarium, Arnotts, All G Foods, AB Mauri, Tip Top and more. It was a night full of opportunities and exchange of ideas.”
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Costa constructs mini commercial glasshouse for CRC crop trials
At UNE, Costa Group is erecting a scaled-down version of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest glasshouse for tomato root-zone trials.
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Meet Fraser Taylor: data-linked health interventions expert
As Director of The George Institute’s FoodSwitch program, Taylor (left) turned a grocery-item database into an award-winning app helping consumers worldwide make healthier in-store choices. Now he’s working with the CRC to do the same for catering.
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EcoMag Ltd set to supply high-grade magnesium to Europe, UK, China
CRC industry partner EcoMag recently signed a conditional letter of intent with IMagine, the magnesia arm of major industrial minerals distributor Cofermin Group, to distribute its high-purity Mg products to buyers across the Northern Hemisphere.
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Dr Tam Tran, EcoMag
Dr Tran talks about the CRC project enabling EcoMag to deliver commercial quantities of high-grade Mg ingredients to two of the US’s largest franchises: CVS and Walmart.
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Four new PhDs join CRC’s student cohort
Promising PhDs (L-R)
Yusuf Adewale,
Lijun Summerhayes,
Odgeral Bumandalai and
Rishi Ravindra Naik will use their CRC top-up scholarships to support research into urban food systems, cold-plasma treatment for fresh spirulina, machine-learning-based egg monitoring tools and new functional food ingredients respectively.
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CRC supports National Freight Education forum
16 June, 9am-1pm, QUT
Attend this free forum presenting the findings of iMOVE Australia's national stakeholder survey of urban freight logistics education and weigh in on options for a new curriculum.
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