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The showcase was launched by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard and Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr.
Senator Carr said the power and potential of clean technology was demonstrated by Carbon Revolution, with its work to commercialise the world's first one piece carbon fibre automotive wheel, which he said offered 'huge weight savings and therefore efficiency and performance benefits to the global automotive industry.'
According to the Minister, Carbon Revolution is now collaborating directly with the world's largest and most sophisticated vehicle manufacturers in Europe to bring this technology to the market in large volumes.
'This is just one example of how embracing clean technology can open up huge global opportunities. Through Clean Energy Future and the innovation agenda, the Gillard Labor Government will help many more Australian firms transform and access these opportunities,' the Minister said.
The minister said that through the government's Clean Technology Program it was providing $1.2 billion to help manufacturers make investments into clean energy opportunities in Australia.
Senator Carr said that a new $10 billion commercially oriented Clean Energy Finance Corporation would also be established to drive innovation through commercial investments in clean energy through loans, loan guarantees and equity investments.
'This support is in addition to our record investment of $9.4 billion into science research and innovation this financial year.'
The Minister said a number of companies in various states and the ACT have developed projects that are at the cutting edge of clean technology innovation in Australia, including:
Victoria
'¢ Techni Waterjet's high-pressure cutting machines can work on steel, glass and marble - the only company in the world that manufactures this technology.
'¢ MicroHeat has used on research and development of advanced systems in the field of continuous flow electric water heating technology to produce an electric continuous flow water heater.
'¢ F Cubed's Carocell Direct Solar desalination panels produce safe, high quality potable water from sources including seawater, groundwater and contaminated or polluted water.
'¢ Rubicon Water designs, manufactures, installs and maintains irrigation automation hardware and software.
'¢ Auto CRC, SMR, UniSA combined to make automotive mirrors from glass, a reduction in weight of the mirror reflector by 50% and therefore a possible collective reduction in greenhouse gas emissions due to the reduced mirror mass of up to 400,000 tonnes of CO2 over five years.
'¢ Cfusion - Carbon Revolution - is developing the world's first one piece carbon fibre automotive wheels.
New South Wales
'¢ Flip screen is a screen attachment for heavy machinery to transform waste destined for landfill into useable product.
'¢ Licella has used innovative technology for converting woody raw materials to biofuel and bioalcohol.
'¢ Oceanlinx is a leading international company in the field of wave energy conversion. The company has developed proprietary technology for extracting energy from ocean waves and converting it into either electricity or desalinated sea water.
'¢ Overall Forge, general steel forge producer for customers in oil, gas, mining and heavy duty industries, has reduced gas consumption in furnaces and utilised hot exhaust gas for its burners.
ACT
'¢ Windlab's turbulence prediction model predicts the occurrence of wind turbulence at prospective wind energy sites, improving the ability to optimally locate turbines for improved performance.
'¢ Wizard Power's The Big Dish, the world's highest performing commercial solar thermal concentrator is a 500m2 concentrating solar collector that accurately focuses direct beam radiation from the sun to concentrations in excess of 2000 times.
South Australia
'¢ Tarac makes fortified wine enhancers from 78 per cent of the nation's wine waste.
Western Australia
'¢ Morton's Seed & Grain Pty Ltd use waste oat hulls and husks to produce energy to run their boiler to produce their processed oat products, replacing the need for more than $400,000 a year in LPG.
