Who will win the ICIS Innovation Awards this year? Seventeen entries across six categories are in the running, where Avertana has been selected as one of three finalists considered as having the Best Innovation by an SME. The winners will be announced on 13 October.

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Kiwi startup Avertana has entered into a technology partnership with South African-based Nyanza Light Metals to turn waste steel slag into titanium dioxide pigment.

On level two of a 1950s building nestled in an Auckland central suburb lies a gray corridor leading to laboratories and workshops where some of New Zealand’s greatest innovation success stories were born.

The Parnell site named Level Two is now home to the next cluster of ground-breaking innovators who are set to ‘change the world’ with their technological inventions.