The Melt Hunter

The Melt is leading the way in products for clean tech and advanced manufacturing.

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00:00I'm Brett Thomas, Director and Chief Operations Officer at The Melt.

00:10My key role and responsibility is managing all the operational activities that happen

00:16through our prototyping facilities, through our programs which help start-ups and scale-ups

00:21accelerate and commercialise their hardware products, particularly focused around clean

00:26tech and advanced manufacturing.

00:28I'm also a passionate investor, I have skin in the game by making sure that those companies

00:35that we invest into have every opportunity for success.

00:39The Melt facility builds, scales, innovates and educates the next generation of start-ups

00:46and scale-ups that are building physical products in the clean tech and advanced manufacturing

00:52space because that's the future of what we need in this country for that net zero transformation.

00:59Most of Australia's key and largest coal mines are here and of course as they diminish over

01:07the course of time we need to find ways to be able to re-employ or re-educate or re-skill

01:14those people in order to keep them here.

01:17And so we're here under a long-term arrangement with a million dollars worth of amazing mechatronics,

01:23robotics, automation equipment and the programs and the technical specialists to be able to

01:28deliver those services that is really going to foster and nurture the growth of those

01:33new emerging clean tech and advanced manufacturing businesses.

01:37The Melt has been very successful in what we do, the investments that we've made through

01:42Melt Ventures in our portfolio of companies include Refilled.

01:47Refilled is on a mission really to remove 100 million plastic bottles by 2030.

01:54The way that they're doing that is through a machine called a Refiller which is capable

01:58of pouring drinks, 100 different flavour combinations, still and sparkling, to remove plastic waste.

02:06The Hunter is the perfect place and it's really because it's at the heartland of energy production

02:12in New South Wales.