A consortium of Chinese investors, which includes Changchun Lianxin Investment Consulting and Shanghai Ground Food Tech, has acquired Brownes Dairy through Australia Zhiran. Brownes was sold by its current owner Archer Capital, a private ...
Tags: dairy products, milk
Australia is importing more pre-converted corrugated boxes than ever before, and paying increasing amounts to do so. A new report released by IndustryEdge has revealed Australian imports of pre-converted corrugated boxes have grown at an ...
Tags: packaging, packaging material, carriage, bags
One of the side effects of the world's deciding to avoid gluten and an increasingly insistent need to produce food sources of protein, is a surge in the popularity of lupins - legumes like soybeans, peas and lentils. In Australia, lupins ...
7-Eleven is expanding to Western Australia Convenience store group 7-Eleven has announced it will be expanding into Western Australia in 2014, marking the first time the company has entered a new market in 32 years. With Western ...
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Australia's Port Hedland is considering plans to increase its port capacity which could translate into an increase in the port's iron ore exports to 500 million mt per year through new terminals at Finucane Island and Lumsden Point, ...
Tags: iron ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A NEW technique being developed by West Australian chemists could provide crime investigators with a safer, simpler and more versatile method for extracting good quality fingermarks, even from non-porous surfaces and in wet or humid ...
Tags: extracting good quality fingermarks, NEW technology, toxic solvent
The metals giant Sinosteel has already invested US$1.4 billion in West Australian Oakajee iron ore project in order to revive steel industrial in Australia. For more than twenty years, miners tried hard to develop a port near Geraldton ...
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Italian dairy firm Parmalat is in negotiations to takeover Australian beverage and dairy products maker Harvey Fresh in a more than A$100m ($94m) deal. Headquartered in Western Australia, Harvey Fresh produces and markets fruit juices and ...
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Mark Webber has all but confirmed fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo will take his seat next season following his exit from the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team after seven years with the Formula One team. Speaking with Australia’s ...
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Local shares reversed an intraday rise yesterday as caution about upcoming corporate earnings eclipsed data indicating continued improvement in Australia's two biggest trading partners. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.3 per ...
The West Australian cited Mr Richard Mehan MD of Grange as saying that the combination of market speculation over a future acquisition and the recent iron ore price rally has provided Grange Resources with an overdue market revaluation. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, iron ore, market conditions
The West Australian reported that Western Areas managing director Dan Lougher said that the Glencore-Xstrata merger could be the catalyst for a wave of acquisition activity in the WA nickel sector this year, with the new global giant primed ...
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West Australian quoted Sundance Resources has underscored the long term value of its West African iron ore project,saying that a reserve upgrade on the Congo side of the Mbalam-Nabeba venture has the potential to push the first stage mine ...
The West Australian reported that iron ore holdings is looking for a partner to develop what the Kerry Stokes backed iron ore junior believes could be a large scale industrial salt operation in the Pilbara. IOH has asked Liam Twigger's ...
Tags: iron ore, IOH, partner, solar salt operation
ABC News reported that a West Australian company has been granted a lease to mine iron ore in Tasmania's Tarkine region on the west coast. Venture Minerals said that it is a significant step towards building the project at Riley Creek, ...
Tags: iron ore, mining, mining project, Australia