CEO, Iondrive
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Iondrive has secured up to $3.9m from Canberra's Industry Growth Program for a battery-recycling pilot plant, with an earlier $100,000 award from Green Industries SA funding urban mining research.
Allegro Energy's chief executive argues local manufacturing can put Australia at the front of advanced manufacturing, recounting his flow-battery company's Hunter base, Origin Energy pilot and Series A capital, ahead of a Sydney panel.
Manufacturing roundup: two hydrogen aircraft developers register cryogenic hydrogen tanks, a new WA Chief Scientist begins, a battery recycler wins a state grant, and the steel lobby seeks US tariff relief.
Weekly most-read roundup: a NSW lean-manufacturing program opens, Simcoa wins a $39.8m grant, First Graphene ships additive to the UK, Oceania Glass collapses, and a battery-recycling profile.
Battery recycler Iondrive completed a $6.1 million share placement to fund a pilot plant for its deep eutectic solvent recycling process; proceeds may partly fund acquiring the University of Adelaide technology.
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