Australia’s largest brick making company Brickworks says a final investment decision on whether to proceed with a $20 million-plus bioenergy plant to help power a Sydney manufacturing facility is likely to occur in the next year as it steps up work on a project with ASX-listed Delorean Corporation.

Brickworks and Delorean, a specialist operator in the field of bioenergy facilities where organic waste is converted to gas and electricity, announced on Tuesday they were now proceeding to the development stage of a partnership to try to prove up the commercial feasibility of a facility.