If you want to become part of Australia’s clean, green advanced manufacturing ecosystem, or you have a question about REACH, get in touch with the team.
Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub
Driving a national green manufacturing revolution
Australia’s largest clean energy and recycling advanced manufacturing ecosystem.
How we are powering a clean and green future
The Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH) facilitates the development of greener supply chains and collaborates with industry partners to pioneer a sustainable circular economy. Based at Deakin’s world-leading Geelong Future Economy Precinct, REACH works with industry, government and education partners to establish a multi-billion-dollar bioeconomy in Victoria.
Backed by a $50 million grant from the Australian Government’s Trailblazer Universities Program, with industry and university support taking the total project value to $380 million, REACH is facilitating the development of greener supply chains and accelerating business success.
Discover how we're building Australia’s largest clean energy and recycling ecosystem
Partner with us and accelerate your business
By connecting your capabilities and ideas with our world-class researchers and multimillion dollar facilities, we can develop innovative solutions that have a real impact on your business. We’re ready to help you turn your ideas into commercial reality and capture market opportunities that grow Australia’s sovereign manufacturing capability in the following areas:
- Battery and energy storage technology
- Hydrogen and carbon fibre
- Recycling and circular economy
Deakin is a national leader in research commercialisation with a strong intellectual property pipeline, proven production and pilot facilities.
REACH Trailblazer funding
Trailblazer funding is a co-contribution program available for projects with a value up to $50 million to advance technologies aligned with energy storage, hydrogen, carbon fibre and recycling, including scaling up technologies for manufacturing supply chains. If you’re interested in partnering on a research-led innovation project, we want to hear from you.
REACH funding is a tremendous opportunity for Deakin to work with progressive, innovation-driven industry partners to help them leverage enormous market opportunities for recycling and clean energy technologies to deliver carbon-neutral solutions.
Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University
Are you ready?
Deakin research leaders explain the groundbreaking research and development underway in Australia’s largest clean energy and recycling advanced manufacturing ecosystem.
Our researchers
Our world-leading experts are undertaking groundbreaking research that is revolutionising manufacturing and addressing urgent environmental challenges.
Featured projects
We are working with partners to address environmental challenges that will drive a sustainable manufacturing revolution. Working towards reducing our carbon footprint and supporting the nation's transition to 'net zero' by 2050.
World-first recycling technology tackles textile waste
Australians throw away tonnes of clothing each year, much of it made from synthetic fabrics that are tough to recycle and slow to break down. To tackle this challenge, we’re working with Samsara Eco to advance world-first enzyme-based recycling technology that can break down and rebuild these materials so they can be reused again and again.
Transforming emissions into sustainable agriculture
In a move to decarbonise heavy industry and support sustainable agriculture, Melbourne-based start-up Kapture is set to transform combustion engine emissions into sustainable fertiliser.
Organic waste becomes a game-changer for sustainability
It’s no secret that food and garden waste make great compost, but now researchers at Deakin University, Barwon Water and RMIT are working together to explore how it can be used for agriculture and battery production.
