{"id":945725,"date":"2026-10-29T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945725\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:54:10","slug":"new-joint-venture-brings-pioneering-aggregate-technology-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945725\/","title":{"rendered":"New joint venture brings pioneering aggregate technology to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A multi-million dollar facility that will transform industrial thermal residues from waste-to-energy plants into sustainable manufactured aggregate for the construction industry is set to be built in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The development follows the launch of O.C.O Victoria, a new joint venture company formed by Australian-owned end-to-end construction and demolition materials recycler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citycirclegroup.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Circle Group<\/a> and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) specialist O.C.O.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new company was officially unveiled with a stand at Waste Expo Australia in Melbourne on October 28-29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O.C.O Victoria will provide recycling services to Australia\u2019s emerging energy-from-waste (EfW) industry, using carbon dioxide to treat Air Pollution Control residues (APCr) and converting them into a carbon-neutral limestone which provides an alternative to mining virgin materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once completed, the plant is expected to treat up to 150,000 tonnes of APCr waste a year, producing an equivalent amount of aggregate for the Australian construction market. For every tonne of manufactured aggregate used, about 1.4 tonnes of natural aggregate is saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multi-million dollar facility that will transform industrial thermal residues from waste-to-energy plants into sustainable manufactured aggregate for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-945725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}