The
Australian government is investing $5 million in Australia’s only Steel
Research Hub, located at the University of Wollongong.
It brings together the research power of nine leading Australian
universities and 10 industry partners.
The purpose is to develop new, higher-value added products and
more advanced manufacturing processes to build a stronger, more competitive
Australian industry backed by world leading research.
Researchers at the Hub are currently looking at how to use waste
from steel production to build roads.
The Steel Research Hub is funded through the Australian Research
Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP), which engages
Australia’s best researchers in issues facing the new industrial economies and
training a future workforce.
As well as the University of Wollongong, other partner
universities are the Australian National University, Deakin University, Monash
University, University of NSW, RMIT, University of Sydney, Swinburne
University, University of Newcastle.
Industry partners include AiG, Bluescope, Infrabuild, Arcelor
Mittal, Liberty, Aust Steel Institute, Bissaloy, Weld Australia and the
National Association for Steel Framed Housing and the Australian Research
Council.
''A future made in
Australia requires steel and we make some of the best in the world right here
in the Illawarra. That’s why this investment in research-led innovations to
manufacturing and product is so important.''
Jason Clare,
Australian minister for education
“A future made in Australia requires steel and we make some of the
best in the world right here in the Illawarra. That’s why this investment in
research-led innovations to manufacturing and product is so important. I can
think of no better place for the Steel Research Hub than Steel City itself,”
said Australian minister for education, Jason Clare.