Coastal Trades

Just over three years ago in May 2017, KIC director Chris Oughton sat down with newly appointed WA Deputy Premier and Member for Kwinana Roger Cook for a wide-ranging conversation.The discussion was reported in the Sound Telegraph then, with another meeting between...

In early 2020 I was asked to present to a Lithium Industry Conference about Industrial Symbiosis (IS) in the Kwinana Industrial Area, Perth, Western Australia.The presentation, slides, and audio, is located here: Its title is "The Dimensions and Value of Industrial...

I am hearing the beginnings of talk about sovereign nations wanting to secure their supply chains and nationally, here in Australia, about increasing our reliance on secondary processing and buying ‘Australian-made’. Many agree a national campaign to achieve this is...

‘Westport’ is the name given to the Government’s election commitment for the planning around a new port in Kwinana. The Westport project is well underway and is strongly supported by industry. Current port infrastructure within the industrial area is essentially...

The Covid-19 virus has made this a very relevant question for the months ahead. Many will say the water and energy suppliers are the essential industries. True, but that’s not the whole story.For example who makes the chlorine for our drinking water, or the oxygen for...

Companies considering establishing operations in the KIA ask ‘what has this area got to offer in comparison to other industrial areas?’ The answer given looks something like this.The KIA is the State’s premier industrial area with all of the benefits of being located...

With a bit of luck, we will soon hear an announcement from an Australian company that it has chosen Kwinana industrial area to set up its 2gigawatt (second stage will be 4GW/y) lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing factory.I had the pleasure of hosting the visiting...

What if a major processing company (A) that had a couple of by-product ‘waste’ streams that two nearby companies (B & C) could use as inputs into their quite different production processes? Those streams are not a waste then, right? They are a product. What if...