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Energy-efficiency funding still available for F&B firms under the EEC Program

February 4, 2022   /   Featured, News

Australian food and beverage manufacturers: apply by 18 February 2022 for grants of up to $25,000 to boost energy-efficiency and adopt new energy technologies under the latest round of the federal government’s Energy Efficient Communities program.

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Federal government pledges $19.1m to help F&B manufacturers go greener

January 21, 2022   /   Featured, News

Grants of up to $25,000 are available to assist food and beverage manufacturing SMEs in improving their energy-efficiency under the latest round of the Australian Government’s Energy Efficient Communities program.

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WA Future Food Network grows from Southern Dirt

November 29, 2021   /   Featured, News, Participants

Western Australia’s new agrifood network aims to ‘connect, inspire and educate’ local food producers and manufacturers to drive the development of a progressive, sustainable agrifood sector for the state.

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Peter Schutz wins AIFST President’s Award

October 27, 2021   /   Featured, News, Profiles

CRC Board member Peter Schutz OAM has netted the 2021 Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology President’s Award for his outstanding contribution to the Australian food industry. 

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Sanitarium teams with UNSW scientists to optimise grain-drying operation

October 27, 2021   /   Featured, News, Participants, Projects

In a project starting mid-February 2022, UNSW scientists will work with Sanitarium to develop protocols for optimising the firm’s Weet-Bix grain-drying process.

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Federation University launches Sustainable Food Systems course

October 21, 2021   /   Featured, News, Participants

Gippsland-based Federation University has launched a three-year Bachelor of Sustainable Food Systems course that gives participants the practical and theoretical skills they’ll need to deliver safe, nutritious and sustainable food into local and global markets.

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Green-leaning chef and Imagine co-chair contend ‘healthy’ food systems can be a win-win

July 25, 2021   /   Featured, MAIN

Concerned about food production’s planetary impact? Developing food systems that are healthier for people and the planet can be profitable, too, contend the guests of this thought-provoking 45-minute UN-backed podcast.

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Could decentralised agrifood clusters be key to sustainable food systems?

July 23, 2021   /   Featured, News

In this thought-provoking paper, Sydney academic and urban planner Steven Liaros contends that ‘the transition to a fully circular economy will require a paradigm shift … away from large-scale industrial agriculture to a decentralised network of circular food systems’.

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Food and beverage manufacturers get MMI funds to modernise and scale up

July 21, 2021   /   Featured, News

MMI Round 2 grant recipients in the food and beverage manufacturing sector include a pie-bakery keen to expand production, a recycled-packaging manufacturer, a soon-to-be-greener brewery, a supplier of beekeeping systems, and a business looking to install new freeze-drying and processing equipment and technology.

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UNSW spray dryer produces perfectly dry, 99.8% pure magnesium citrate

April 29, 2021   /   Featured, News, Participants, Projects

In an initial trial in the UNSW-EcoMag project, chemical engineers at UNSW were able to produce very high-purity Mg citrate using their state-of-the-art spray dryer. It’s a first, successful step towards EcoMag’s goal of scaling up to commercial production using the new process.

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