CRC Aeroclean industrial degreaser is now available in a non-flammable formulation, retaining its fast-acting performance on grease, oil and grime while reducing ignition risk around live electrical equipment and hot plant. The solvent blend is designed for use on motors, switchgear and other safety-critical assets where traditional flammable aerosols are restricted, supporting lock-out/tag-out and hot-work controls. Maintenance teams can clean heavily soiled components in situ, cutting the need for full disassembly and reducing downtime on conveyors, crushers and processing lines.

Australia’s Chief Scientist Professor Tony Haymet is pushing for deeper Australia–South Korea collaboration on critical minerals, batteries and hydrogen, centred on supply chain resilience and advanced processing technologies. Speaking at the Korea–Australia Future Forum in Seoul, he framed joint work on lithium, rare earths and battery materials as essential to both countries’ energy transition strategies and industrial competitiveness. For miners and processors, this signals potential Korean investment in Australian upstream projects and co-development of midstream refining and battery manufacturing capacity.

Core Lithium has appointed former Sirius Resources executive and current Chalice Mining chair Tim Goyder as an independent director and Audit Committee chair, as mining ramps up at its Finniss lithium project on the Cox Peninsula, south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory. The appointment comes two months after Core restarted open-pit mining at Finniss, which targets spodumene-bearing pegmatites for lithium concentrate production. The move signals a focus on capital discipline and governance as the project advances towards sustained output in a volatile lithium price environment.