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INDUSTRIAL prototyping lab The Melt is launching a satellite operation in Muswellbrook, designed to “super-charge” startups and small businesses and train the “workforce of the future”. The Melt CEO Trent Bagnall says the Upper Hunter was an obvious choice for the next Melt, which was launched in 2019 by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to help entrepreneurs and companies design and build the hardware necessary to commercialise innovative products. “Muswellbrook has a whole bunch of exciting capacities and skills in mining, engineering and power but it has challenges with two power stations (Bayswater and Liddell) closing, so we are creating new business, new products, supporting exisitng businesses and diversification,” Mr Bagnall said. The Muswellbrook Melt’s launch was postponed amid pandemic restrictions however will be revealed to the local business…
