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Meat Industry Efficiency and Innovation Capacity Enhancement: Benchmarking Technologies and Systems from Automotive Industry

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This project will focus on accelerating the adoption of new technologies by benchmarking the competitive and sustainable Automotive manufacturing industry as well as other food industries. The Automotive industry, as a high volume-low margin sector, is the pioneer in automating manual tasks, by developing the most advanced and cost-effective systems....

1 Dec 2016 - 15 Nov 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)

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Energy and Materials Recovery from Paunch Waste Using Novel Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water Gasification Processes - Phase 1

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This multiphase project aims to investigate the feasibility of Hydrothermal Carbonisation and Supercritical Water Gasification processes for processing heavily moisture-laden paunch waste.

1 Sep 2018 - 3 Feb 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)

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Educational Pathways: Creating a Highly Skilled Meat Industry - Year 2

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This is the second year of the Educational Scholarship Pathways Program: Creating a Highly Skilled Meat Industry (ESP), aiming to build on the work undertaken in the previous year. The ESP will create a holistic educational program to develop people that will have the skills and knowledge to contribute to...

3 Mar 2018 - 4 Mar 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)

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Review of ACCC report on electricity affordability and Australia’s competitive advantage

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

AMPC requires a timely assessment of the implications for the red meat industry of the findings of the ACCC’s report on electricity affordability and Australia’s competitive advantage.

23 Jul 2018 - 31 Jul 2018

New South Wales, Australia

SG Heilbron Pty Ltd

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Processing Cost Competitiveness

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This project will: 1. Produce processing cost data for New Zealand augmenting Project 2017-1062 2. Scope the potential for collaboration between Australia, Argentina and Brazil in analysing processing cost competitiveness as recommended by Project 2017-1062 3. Assess the potential for an application for grant under the COALAR project to assist...

21 Aug 2018 - 20 Dec 2018

New South Wales, Australia

SG Heilbron Pty Ltd

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Analysis of state-based processing costs

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

An analysis of state level red meat (beef) processing and regulatory costs (excluding livestock), using 2015-16 data, with a particular focus on those costs derived from state-based regulation.

20 Dec 2018 - 15 Feb 2019

New South Wales, Australia

SG Heilbron Pty Ltd

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Evaluating the socio-economic benefit of the red meat processing industry in regional Australia 2020

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Provide updated analysis previously provided in the 2016 report (AMPC 2016-1031 – Evaluating the socio-economic benefit of the red meat processing industry in regional Australia – prepared by SG Heilbron Economic & Policy Consulting, 2016) which identified employment, value added and household income generated by the industry both directly and...

22 Apr 2020 - 29 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

SG Heilbron Pty Ltd

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Energy-sufficient meat processing plant

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

The objective of the project is to demonstrate that meat processing plants can become energy self-sufficient by utilising reliable renewable energy technologies. It is also about identifying any gaps that require further research. The project will consider; - deploy-ability for varying sizes of processing plants; - opportunities to reduce or...

1 Feb 2018 - 1 Nov 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Smart Business Hub Pty Ltd

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Microbiological food safety and storage life of Australian red meat

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Over recent decades, Australia's meat industry has invested heavily in improving infrastructure of its processing facilities. There have also been similar commitments to research and development and to monitoring the microbiological performance of the industry. Taken together, these investments comprise a large body of published work which documents the pre-eminence...

1 Feb 2018 - 2 Jul 2018

New South Wales, Australia

South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)

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Automation of Primal Cut Bagging

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This project will look at existing available technologies and how they might be directly applied to this task – if applicable. It will also look at other available technologies that might be applied and used as building blocks for the development of such a solution from the ground up if...

20 Jun 2018 - 1 Apr 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Strategic Engineering Pty Ltd

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Meat Industry Efficiency and Innovation Capacity Enhancement: Benchmarking Technologies and Systems from Automotive Industry

Energy and Materials Recovery from Paunch Waste Using Novel Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water Gasification Processes - Phase 1

Educational Pathways: Creating a Highly Skilled Meat Industry - Year 2

Review of ACCC report on electricity affordability and Australia’s competitive advantage

Processing Cost Competitiveness

Analysis of state-based processing costs

Evaluating the socio-economic benefit of the red meat processing industry in regional Australia 2020

Energy-sufficient meat processing plant

Microbiological food safety and storage life of Australian red meat

Automation of Primal Cut Bagging

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