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An environmentally friendly metal extraction technique developed by 麻豆直播 and being commercialised by Mining and Process Solutions that offers significant benefits for the mining industry was crowned the overall winner at the WA Innovator of the Year Awards.

麻豆直播 Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Professor Chris Moran attended the annual ceremony, which recognises outstanding emerging businesses and helps commercialise promising technologies, and said he was pleased to see Curtin-related innovations acknowledged as offering economic, social and environmental benefits to Western Australia.

鈥淧rofessor Jacques Eksteen, Dr Elsayed Oraby and fellow researchers at the Gold Technology Group within Curtin鈥檚 Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering developed the GlyLeach system for environmentally friendly metal extraction from ore, which was then licensed to Mining and Process Solutions before being named the overall winner at the WA Innovator of the Year Awards,鈥� Professor Moran said.

鈥淭he team鈥檚 development of a non-toxic, biodegradable and reusable solution to extract metals including gold, silver, copper and nickel from ore has global potential and the ability to increase the efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability of WA鈥檚 mining industry.鈥�

TENSA Equipment鈥檚 Roborigger automated lifting device, which Curtin helped develop, won the Woodside Oil and Gas Platinum Award, the South32 Technology & Innovation in Mining Platinum Award聽and the Business News 鈥楪reat for the State鈥� Award at the annual ceremony, which recognises outstanding emerging businesses and helps commercialise promising technologies.

Professor Moran said TENSA Equipment鈥檚 Roborigger machine, a wireless load controlling device for crane lifting that eliminates the use of taglines and the need for people to be in the vicinity of the load, was developed in collaboration with聽Dr Fabrizio Padula, Professor Ryan Loxton, and Associate Professor Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis from Curtin鈥檚 School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences鈥�.

鈥淭his is a game changer for lifting safety and will help improve safety for the construction, oil and gas, and mining industries,鈥� Professor Moran said.

鈥淭hese award-winning contributions demonstrate Curtin鈥檚 efforts to transform research outcomes into successful new products and services and showcase real-world examples of the University鈥檚 research and innovation.鈥�

The WA Innovator of the Year program is an initiative of the State Government’s New Industries Fund, which aims to enable small and medium businesses to develop greater opportunities to commercialise their ideas and innovations and expand to create new jobs.

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