Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL) - call for commercialisation projects

Opportunity for

• Solution providers, innovators, creative thinkers with technical expertise
• Research partners, willing to consider “out of the box” ideas and approaches to tackle current and emerging challenges for the Australasian pork industry.

Australian Pork - Waste water and effluent sterilisation technology

Opportunity for

Intensive agriculture and power generators interested in commercialising water treatment technology to recycle wastewater and effluent with hot gas bubbles from exhaust gases. Use cases include:

• farms and wastewater treatment plants with biogas generation
• waste disposal industries like landfills with biogas generation
• biogas plants and coal power plants which emit large amounts of hot CO2 from exhaust gases that can be reused.

NorVicFoods®

Opportunity for

• Industry partners, innovators and creative thinkers with ideas and approaches to tackle current and emerging challenges for the agrifood sector in the Hume region of Victoria

Electronic platforms to increase safety at sea for commercial fishing fleets

Opportunity for

• Solution providers, innovators, research providers and policy makers to build upon outputs of research outlined in this opportunity to improve maritime safety

Minimising plastic in the western rock lobster industry

Opportunity for

• Solution providers, innovators, research providers and policy makers that can reduce plastic use in the Australian western rock lobster industry, including by building upon outputs of research outlined in this opportunity.

Practical technologies for Perfluoroalkyl (PFA) remediation in marine fish hatcheries

Opportunity for

• Solution providers, innovators, research providers and policy makers to build on outputs of research into practical technologies for Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) remediation in marine fish hatcheries

GO Resources: Unique plant bio-based super high oleic safflower oil, replacing petroleum and palm oil based products

Opportunity for

Investors to support the company growth ($5M capital raise) to produce fully biodegradable bio-lubricants, transformer oils, cosmeceuticals and food products, this may include:

• Equity investors interested in exploring co-investment opportunities
• Joint venture
• Global manufacturers of petroleum based lubricants
• Exclusive management of the entire supply chain.

Waterless knife sterilisation for meat processing plants

Opportunity for

• Solution providers wanting to develop new solutions for sterilisation of knives and other tools for Australian red meat abattoirs. Participants may be: 

• • Wishing to brainstorm and evaluate (without substantially building) new approaches (this can be initially focussed and limited to knife sterilisation) 
  • Ready to build and evaluate designs for new approaches 

Novel semi-permeable gas membrane

Opportunity for

• Organisations, partners or investors, interested in developing or improving current solutions for air, water, fluid and gas monitoring or diagnostic solutions. Applications could include animal, environmental, food or mining uses.

Rubens Technologies: Real time and non destructive fruit quality testing

Opportunity for

• Partners or investors with potential distributor networks with an initial focus on Australian and south east Asian markets
• Partners looking to integrate this product (real time, non-destructive fruit quality testing device and analytics) within an established agricultural data platform
• Investors to support the commercialisaiton of the devices and provide full time support for customers 
  
  

Ultra low gluten barley, known as Kebari

Opportunity for

• Companies interested in developing new low gluten/gluten free barley food, beverage products including beer as well as malt products.

Adjustable wheel for robotics

Opportunity for

• Companies developing mobile robotic products and wheel manufacturers

Fast and efficient processing of hyperspectral images

Opportunity for

• Food safety companies delivering imaging products and services
• Companies interested in or using remote sensing technologies to develop or deliver products and services
• Security companies delivering imaging products and services
• Companies using platforms (drones / robotics) using hyperspectral cameras

'Steak to Primal' traceability (software or hardware)

Opportunity for

• Software and hardware solution providers or developers looking for financial support to demonstrate and evolve offerings in 'steak to primal' traceability and demonstrate it in a meat processing environment
• Existing traceability providers who would like support to extend their offer to deliver a 'steak to primal' solution
• New providers interested in addressing the 'last mile' and integrating with existing traceability providers or providing that directly as part of a traceability solution

Waterless lamb frenching: reducing 210,000 knifing path actions per shift to zero

Opportunity for

• Solution providers wanting to demonstrate and evolve an offering in 'waterless frenching' and demonstrate it in meat processing environments
• Solution providers wishing to validate conceptual designs and/or build and evaluate initial prototypes that reduce human effort, water and energy consumption

AMPC: Red meat bone belt automated monitoring solution

Opportunity for

• Imagery solutions providers or developers seeking financial support to demonstrate and evolve your offering in red meat monitoring on bone belts to measure and manage red meat discharging on the bone belt to acceptable levels

Buggy Blend – nutritionally optimised, alternative protein pet food range (insect-based)

Opportunity for

• Australian and international companies interested in commercialising novel products in the pet food industry
• Existing pet food manufacturing businesses interested in diversified opportunities
• Insect farming businesses interested in enhanced production outcomes and/or partnering into value-added productisation opportunities
• Investors interested in sustainable alternative protein products

SoleMate: A shoe insole medical IoT device with automated remote emergency alerts

Opportunity for

• Investors interested in further development and commercialisation of this device
• Investors interested in commercial partnerships surrounding exclusive use of the device
• Medical device manufacturers interested in partnering for mass production of the device
• Researchers interested in capturing health and activity data through the device

Elite genetics for Manuka honey and essential oil production

Opportunity for

• Investors interested in investing in the ManukaLife company
• Nurseries interested in producing and distributing elite Leptospermum genetics
• Plantation companies and large-scale landholders (farming, mining etc.) interested in developing essential oil / Manuka honey producing plantations
• Cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical companies interested in developing new products

Producer-led agtech demonstration case studies: wine grapes

Opportunity for

• Agrifoodtech companies interested in trialling later stage technologies in the grape and wine sector
• Grape and wine value chain participants interested in trialling later stage technologies