Issue 24, December 2007

The team at CETEC would like to thank all who attended our recent 20th anniversary celebration event at the Monash University Club in Melbourne.  As well as a celebration of 20 years of business and a networking opportunity for our customers, suppliers and industry experts, a list of speakers provided a range of insights to the attendees on the topic of Sustained Productivity to Productive Sustainability. Each speaker gave their interpretation on the topic based on their area of expertise and experiences. CETEC would like to give a big thank you to the eminent speakers for their time and effort.

CETEC also presented a school sustainability prize to Camelot Rise Primary School for their outstanding environmental and sustainability initiatives. The measurement kit awarded to Camelot Rise was designed to allow comprehensive, on-going measurement of the development of a new tree-based greenhouse controlling ecosystem. A second prize was also awarded to Highvale Primary school for their water and life based project. 

We would also like to thank those suppliers who offered support in the form of discounted equipment or goods for the measurement kit. In particular, we thank Kenelec Scientific for the discount on the Carbon Dioxide Meter plus The Binocular and Telescope shop, Acorn Nursery, Dick Smith Electronics and Clark Rubber.

The speakers, in order of appearance, at the celebration were:

• Dr Vyt Garnys, Managing Director of CETEC who opened the proceedings with a reminder as to what was happening in October 1987, including the stock market crash. An auspicious start!

• Prof Neville Nichols – Professorial Fellow - School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University discussed the IPCC and Climate Change.

• Mr John Widdowson – Chemical Testing Manager, NATA.  John congratulated CETEC on their longevity and thanked Dr Garnys for his 15 years of contribution to NATA as an assessor and many years as a member of the Inorganic Technical Group and Chemical testing Accreditation Advisory Committee.

• Mr Lex Edmond, Research Coordinator, Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterial Science discussed new developments.

• Dr Alexandra Bush – User Support Officer, Australian Synchrotron gave an update of the current status of the Monash located Synchrotron.

• Prof Patricia Vickers-Rich – Director and Chair of Palaeontology and the Monash Science Centre that services up to 50,000 children annually.

• Mr Jeff McAlpine – Economic Development Manager, City of Monash described the Technology Capability Alignment Project.

• Mrs Joan Fary – Principal of Camelot Rise Primary School as well as Robyn Woodroffe & Diana Ridgwood from Highvale Primary School.

• Dr Mike Murray - Principal of Brightside talked on how R&D has embraced sustainability.

• Mr David Bate – TCA Project Manager at CETEC gave examples of how industry internationally has moved over recent decades to focus on sustainability issues.

 

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