portfolio, Oceanlinx, Cool Energy, MIGfast, Active Reactor Company, Hardwear, V-Fuel, Worldwide Coatings, Agrilink, Nu Energy, Ecoult, Smart Storage, Lightenate, Altaus, Ember Technologies

MIGfast

The MIGfast product is a novel consumable welding contact tip that provides significant benefits in energy efficiency, welding productivity, weld quality and fume reduction. The patented welding tip has been designed to be interchangeable with existing welding tips to allow simple and cost-effective take-up of the new technology.

Active Reactor Company

The Active Reactor is an electronic device designed to continuously control the power supplied to High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps - typically used for street and major road lighting. The controller includes an electrically controlled injector to manage power to the lamp based on lamp voltage, the supply voltage and lamp current. Benefits are energy savings of 15% to 25% and a significant increase in lamp life.

Hardwear (sale completed)

Hardwear has developed ‘In Situ Laser Surfacing' technology which reduces the cost and time to repair of power station turbine blades. The technology brings high strength turbine blade repair on site at power plants, overcoming the need to remove blades from the turbine and send them off-site for repair, significantly reducing downtime.

Hardwear has completed the resufacing of the low pressure turbine blades in two 350 MW steam turbines at AGL's Torrens Island power station.

Cleantech Ventures led the trade sale of Hardwear to Hardchrome Engineering in March 2010.

Ecoult (sale completed)

Ecoult technology is a hybrid battery combining a 'supercapacitor' and a lead-acid battery in a one-unit cell as a cost effective and high performance electricity storage solution for regulation services and renewable energy (wind) smoothing.  The technology is based on the CSIRO developed 'ultrabattery'.

Cleantech Ventures as manager of the CEGT Fund completed the sale of its investment in Ecoult to East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc. in May 2010.

East Penn is the world's largest and most modern independent battery manufacturing company, with a 520 acre manufacturing complex in Lyon Station, Pennsylvania, USA.

Cleantech Ventures' Andrew Pickering noted "Cleantech Ventures / CEGT provided the seed capital for Ecoult's formation in Victoria in 2007. The sale of CEGT's investment to such a high profile quality large scale manufacturer such as East Penn validates the Investment opportunity in Australian clean technologies today."

Nu Energy

Nu Energy specialises in renewable energy system design, supply, installation and the introduction of new technologies for grid connected and remote area solar residential and commercial systems.

Worldwide Coatings

Worldwide Coating's "TAG" technology is an innovative new material that acts as one-way insulation - blocking heat transfer in one direction and allowing heat to transfer in the other. When added to paints and other materials TAG protects against high ambient temperatures but allows heat to escape when the temperature of the equipment is higher than the ambient temperature. Key applications are in roof coatings and the power equipment sector.

Ember Technologies (sale completed)

Ember Technologies has developed a novel power-sensing and controlling technology aimed at eliminating standby power consumption in homes and offices.

Cleantech Ventures  completed the sale of the CEGT Fund's investment in Ember in February 2010.

Lightanate Pty Ltd

Lightanate is developing new and reactive forms of advanced materials aimed at step-change cost and performance improvements for a range of cleantech applications. See UniQuest media release

V-Fuel

V-Fuel's Vanadium Bromide Redox Flow battery is a grid-scale energy storage system which represents a significant development over other redox flow batteries. Improved materials, solutions and membrane design aim to deliver twice the energy density allowing energy from wind and solar power sources to be stored and released into the transmission grid when needed.

Metsol

Metallic Waste Solutions Pty Ltd (Metsol) is a Victorian industrial recycling company founded in 2008.  Metsol brings together selected new technologies that have been independently developed over the last 10 years for converting waste from industrial processes into saleable product. Initially the company is focused on the recovery of zinc and zinc products from Electric Arc Furnace Dust (EAFD), a zinc rich waste product from the steel recycling industry.