Tasmanian Business Reporter June 2019

10 Tasmanian Business Reporter - JUNE 2019
NEWS
TasWater customer
service earns award
TASWATER’s 24 Glasses
- Regional Towns Water
Supply Program, which
resulted in the removal of
all public health alerts on
drinking water, has been
named winner of the Operator
& Service Provider
Excellence award at this
year’s Infrastructure Part-
nerships Australia presentation.
TasWater shared the
award with project management
partner KBR
and TRILITY, the company
which manufactured
and installed nine
water treatment plants
in communities around
New head for aqua feed company
BIOMAR has appointed David
returns to BioMar to lead the Greece, Turkey, China, Costa
Whyte as managing di-
start-up of the company’s first Rica and Ecuador, supplying
rector of its new $56 million Australian plant.
high-performance feed to the
aqua feed manufacturing “I am excited to take this global aquaculture industry.
plant at Wesley Vale. new professional challenge to BioMar is wholly owned
The plant is under construction
build a high performing team by the Danish industrial group
and due to be commis-
and firmly establish BioMar Schouw & Co, which is listed
sioned in January, 2020. in Australia and New Zealand,”
on the NASDAQ, Copenha-
Mr Whyte is a marine biologist
he said.
gen.
with 32 years’ experience
It’s a tremendous opportuni-
Once operational, the Tastion
in aquaculture producty
and a significant responsibilmanian
facility will produce
and supply companies in ity to meet the expectation
2
of up to 110,000 tonnes per annum
of aqua feed product,
Scotland, Australia and New our customers, staff, community
and shareholders.”
creating an expected 55 full
Zealand.
He was the first Technical BioMar operates 14 feed factories
in Norway, Chile, Den-
30 indirect jobs across the re-
time jobs and an additional
Manager at BioMar’s UK
plant in the late 1990s and mark, Scotland, Spain, France, gion.
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Tasmania. The judging
panel said it chose Tas-
Water’s Regional Towns
Water Supply program
because of its innovative
approach to lifting public
health alerts in many
small communities and
achieving the best outcome
for TasWater customers.
TasWater CEO
Michael Brewster said it
was very pleasing to gain
national recognition for
a very significant infrastructure
development.
“The job of installing
a large number of small
and in some cases quite
isolated water treatment
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TasWater
Senior Engineer
Asset Strategy
Bryony Elson,
left, TasWater
Stakeholder
and Community
Engagement
Leader John J
Murray, Managing
Director Trility
Fracois Gouws
and General
Manager, Systems
Performance &
Major Projects
at TasWater
Dr Dharma
Dharmabalan.
plants was an immense
challenge from the very
start,” Mr Brewster said.
“The key to success
was our partnership
with KBR and TRILITY
which enabled us to complete
the task within the
time frame of 18 months
which we committed to.”
David Whyte
IN BRIEF
Check your online presence
TASMANIA’S 37,300 small to medium businesses
have a new digital check-up tool to help check the
health and effectiveness of their websites and attract
more customers to their businesses.
The tool, designed and built locally by Tasmanian
firm Neon Jungle, provides analysis and tips on search
engine optimisation, accessibility, performance, mobile
responsiveness and social profile.
The offering is part of the State Government’s Digital
Ready for Business program, which has seen 600
Tasmanians attend a digital ready event or coaching
session thi year.
The digital check-up tool can be accessed via
https://checkup.digitalready.tas.gov.au/
Tassie’s frozen neighbour
HOBART will host the fourth International Sub-Antarctic
Forum in July 2020 as the state aims to capitalise
on its proximity to Antarctica.
The 2020 forum will sit alongside the biennial Australian
Antarctic Festival, which attracts more than
21,000 visitors to Hobart from around the world.
It will bring together more than 120 experts from
Antarctic nations including Australia, New Zealand,
France, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Chile, Argentina
and Norway.
Land managers, policy makers, commercial operators
and NGOs, as well as sub-Antarctic scientists,
will focus on the challenges facing the sub-Antarctic
and develop stronger partnerships.
Tassie on the menu
TASMANIA’S premium food and beverages were the
envy of Asia at the HOFEX 2019 Food and Hospitality
Tradeshow in Hong Kong in mid-May.
Eight local premium food and beverage producers
were introduced to thousands of trade delegates
from more than 70 countries at the State Government-backed
stall.
Tasmania’s presence yielded results, with Hong
Kong supermarket chain, City Super, signing deals to
stock Tasmania’s Westhaven Dairy’s full range of yoghurts,
and premium Tas Prime oysters.
Woodbridge Smokehouse also signed a deal to increase
the volume of their premium smoked salmon to
Hong Kong’s ParknShop flagship stores.
Wildlife the winner
WILDLIFE will be the winner after a Hobart Airport
initiative to install 1km of virtual fencing technology
along Grueber Avenue.
Environment Manager Kirsten Leggett said it was
an important initiative to reduce animal deaths on the
road.
“Tasmania has recently earned the unfortunate title
of the road kill capital of the world, with more animals
dying per kilometre on Tasmanian roads than
anywhere else in the world,” Ms Leggett said.
“For locals and visitors alike, the experience of colliding
with our wildlife can be quite traumatic.
The Wildlife Safety Solutions technology is activated
by oncoming headlights and uses audio alerts along
with flashing LED lighting to deter animals from entering
the roadway.
Initial testing of virtual fencing devices in Tasmania
has seen a 50 per cent reduction in road kill deaths.
Bruny ferry may go electric
A SECOND new
multi-million dollar vessel
to service Bruny Island
will be built by
Tasmanian business
Richardson Devine Marine.
SeaLink Travel Group
had already contracted
the ship builder to build
its first new vessel, which
is under construction and
due to be delivered in
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A contract has now
Now incorporating
been signed for the second
vessel, which will
cost $7.5 million.
An artist’s impression of the first new Bruny
Island ferry now under construction.
Investigations are un-
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der way into the viability
of it being electric -
which would be the first
ferry of its kind in the
southern hemisphere.
THE CRAFT LIVES ON.
SeaLink’s two new
vessels will provide a
more reliable, efficient
and comfortable services
to the island, which is enjoying
a tourism boom.