Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr announced 22 successful applicants will receive government grant offers totalling $5.5 million to help them reduce their environmental footprint under the Re-Tooling for Climate Change scheme.
Government grant recipients include:
- Spring Gully Foods, of South Australia, which manufactures pickles, preserves and premium honey; it will use the funds to replace existing boilers with a high-efficiency, low-emissions boiler;
- SEC Plating, of New South Wales, which offers electroplating and electrochemical processing services to a diverse range of industry sectors; it will implement a custom-built water recycling system; and
- Ronstan International, of Victoria, which supplies innovative sailboat hardware to the domestic and export markets; it will introduce advanced production processes that reduce energy use and water consumption.
“This program is all about the Government working with industry to support a sustainable manufacturing sector, now and into the future,” Senator Carr said.
“The projects awarded government grants involve harnessing solar energy, water recycling, reusing waste heat, and various other process improvements.”
Re-tooling for Climate Change offers dollar-for-dollar government grants from $10,000 to $500,000 to help small and medium Australian manufacturers improve the energy and water efficiency of their production processes.
The program is part of the Rudd Government’s Clean Business Australia – a partnership with industry to tackle climate change.
Senator Carr said that businesses could submit an application at any time.
“We have moved to continuous assessment of applications, so manufacturers can get the fastest possible turnaround on their proposals,” Senator Carr said.
If you require assistance in preparing your Re-tooling for climate change application, please contact us.
A full list of government grant recipients is detailed below:
|
State |
Company |
Maximum Grant Amt
(GST incl) |
Project Title |
Project Description |
| NSW | A.J. Bush & Sons (Manufactures) Pty Ltd | $550,000 | Capture and use of biogas from existing anaerobic digestion ponds | The project involves the installation of pond covers and a biogas recovery facility at AJ Bush & Sons NSW to recover and use biogas generated from the existing anaerobic digestion ponds. The collected biogas will be used within the existing boilers as a replacement fuel for natural gas. This project will significantly reduce odours, improve wastewater quality, reduce reliance on fossil fuel and significantly reduce the operating costs and carbon footprint of the business. |
| NSW | APR Detailed Joinery Pty Ltd as trustee for the The APR Joinery Trust | $71,006 | Re-engineering of air compressor and extraction for energy efficiency | The project involves the installation of energy efficient equipment in a joinery factory. Specifically, the project will involve the implementation of a new energy efficient dust extraction system, and an automated air compressor which will self adjust the energy usage according to the requirements of the machines that are in use at any particular time. It is estimated that the project will reduce the company’s energy use by 17.5%. |
| NSW | Enware Australia Pty Ltd | $116,001 | Water recovery and reuse from electroplating and testing processes | This project will enable Enware Australia Pty Ltd to recover and reuse more than 95% of water used in electroplating and testing activities, to eliminate waste water discharge to tradewaste sewer, and to introduce improved water processing techniques for water recovery and reuse. |
| NSW | International Seal Company Australia Pty Ltd | $195,467 | Greener Injection Moulding | The project aims to reduce the energy consumption of the tooling process by replacing hydraulic machines with energy efficient electric servo driven injection moulding machine. |
| NSW | Nugan Quality Foods Pty Ltd | $550,000 | Recycling of waste steam and product condensate to replace river water | The project involves recycling waste water by installing steam condensate return lines and a waste product condensate filtration plant. Recycling the high temperature condensate will reduce boiler energy demand and natural gas consumption. The project will also reduce dependence on water allocations. |
| NSW | Overall Forge Pty Ltd | $550,000 | Install recuperative burners to utilise waste heat from furnace exhaust | The project involves retrofitting furnaces with recuperative burner systems which will allow waste heat to be recycled and used in air pre-heating for the forging process. This will enable the company to achieve a reduction of 26% in the consumption of natural gas and lower annual carbon emissions by 2,260 tonnes per annum. |
| NSW | S.E.C Plating Pty Ltd | $470,800 | A custom built water recycling system | The project is a new custom built water recycling system for use in S.E.C. Plating’s electroplating production process that will dramatically improve water recycling for re-use in the production process and reduce water usage by over 36 million litres per year. |
| NSW | Sulo MGB Australia Pty Ltd | $34,760 | Process energy saving by improved Power Factor Correction | The project aims to improve the Power Factor of the main power distribution system to allow for more even distribution and greater control of power throughout the site. |
| SA | Cu Base Nominees Pty Ltd as trustee for Cu Base Unit Trust | $30,291 | Upgrading of cooling tower for induction furnaces | The project will reduce the company’s carbon footprint by installing an environmentally friendly and technologically advanced cooling tower unit. |
| SA | Elderton Wines Pty Ltd | $95,680 | Creating wine from the sun | The project aims to supplement the electricity requirements of the winery refrigeration system by installing a 30kw solar power system. |
| SA | Kalleske Wines Pty Ltd | $39,820 | Using the sun’s energy to create wine | The project aims to install a 15kw solar power system to supplement the electricity requirements of the winery’s production process. |
| SA | Master Butchers Co-operative Limited | $550,000 | Reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by installing “best practice” meat rendering equipment | The project involves the retooling of a vital fats and proteins recycling plant to minimise greenhouse gas outputs by reducing demand for new heat energy, and reusing existing heat energy to concentrate waste streams for reintroduction to the process. |
| SA | Maxiplas Pty Ltd | $550,000 | Servo controlled injection moulding technology for electricity and water savings | The project aims to reduce Maxiplas’ carbon footprint by 50% and to demonstrate the company’s environmental leadership by adopting electric servo controlled injection moulding technology to manufacture an innovative stormwater capture, harvest and management system. |
| SA | Spring Gully Foods Pty Ltd | $140,737 | Replacement of two boilers with one high-efficiency, low emissions boiler | The project involves the replacement of two manual boilers with one high-efficiency, low emissions automatic boiler for the production of steam in a food manufacturing process. It is anticipated that the new boiler will achieve thermal efficiency of around 88% (compared with 60% for the old boilers), thereby reducing gas consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. |
| SA | Taylors Wines Pty Ltd | $550,000 | Taylors Wines sustainable refrigeration future | This project will support South Australian winery Taylors Wines convert from packaged type refrigeration to a climate-friendly ammonia refrigeration system. |
| SA | Trillians Hill Wines Pty Ltd | $30,679 | Harnessing renewable energy for the winemaking process | The project involves the installation of a photovoltaic solar system to improve production efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the winery. |
| TAS | Naturale Pty Ltd | $12,821 | Specialised dairy feed dryer insulation project | The project involves building an insulated structure around two dryers, used in the manufacture of specialised dairy stock feed, in order to retain the heat currently wasted from the dryers and the exhaust ducts. |
| VIC | Ronstan International Pty Ltd | $195,372 | Advanced processes and plant to deliver manufacturing and environmental efficiencies | The project involves implementing a number of initiatives including use of variable speed energy efficient compressed air, replacement of vapour degreaser, rapid roller doors, water harvesting and installation of a closed loop water chilling system. These improvements aim to reduce the company’s energy use within these processes by 50%, greenhouse gas emissions by 45% and water consumption by 36%. |
| VIC | Tabro Meat Pty Ltd | $550,000 | Integration of Closed Loop Effluent Processing and Resource Recovery Plant into abattoir operations | The project incorporates modifications and additions to the abattoir operations at Tabro Meat Pty Ltd to accommodate and utilise the delivery of captured methane and water. |
| VIC | Westkon Precast Pty Ltd as trustee for the Westkon Precast Trust | $13,681 | Capturing rainwater for concrete batching process | The project involves the installation of a 100,000 litre rainwater tank at Westkon’s Precast Concrete manufacturing plant. The captured water willl be used in the concrete making/batching process, saving 1.7 ML of potable water per annum. |
| VIC | Plunkett Fowles Pty Ltd | $105,573 | Insulation of wine storage tanks and refrigeration pipe work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions | The project involves the installation of high efficiency insulation on 55 stainless steel wine tanks and refrigeration pipe work which will greatly reduce refrigeration loads. By reducing refrigeration loads there will be a significant reduction in emissions of greenhouse gasses from electricity generation, and hence the carbon footprint of the winery. |
| WA | WA Composts Pty Ltd as trustee for the Bios Unit Trust | $110,000 | Compost manufacturing process improvement | The project involves the development of an improved method of manufacturing compost. Instead of the industry standard manufacturing practice of heaping the raw products and then aerating them by manually turning the heaps as required with a customised diesel powered turning machine, this project will aerate the heaps by forcing oxygen up into the compost material through fan powered pipes laid beneath the piles. This simple and cost-effective technology will reduce energy consumption by over 80% and greenhouse gas emissions by about 150 tonnes per year. |