Amcor Australasia has signed an agreement to acquire packaging and industrial distributors in Far North Queensland, Joe’s Cartons business for an undisclosed value. Joe's Cartons' distribution warehouses centers at Innisfail, Tully ...
Tags: Cartons Business, Packaging
Aldi Australia is all set to enter into online liquor sales business by offering consumers with a range of liquors through its online platform The online liquor store will carry over 200 products under two categories - Aldi's everyday ...
Tags: Australia, Liquor, Agriculture&Food
The wild dog hunters can’t keep up. A bullet to the head or heart brings $500 per dog — but it doesn’t matter. Tens of thousands of wild dogs are breeding faster than the hunters can track and shoot. Weighing in at up to ...
The Australian cane industry is enjoying a period of rejuvenation, helped by an increase in foreign investment. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Source: The Australian This year's Australian sugarcane harvest has started in north Queensland ...
Tags: Cane Industry, Australia
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has officially confirmed Australia's 2011-12 cotton crop was a record 973,000 tonnes, up 15% on the previous year. It’s Agricultural Commodities 2011-12 report showed a slight increase in the total ...
Tags: ABS, Cotton Crop
Australian food firm Vege Chip has recalled sweet potato vegetable crisps as they may contain dairy, which is not mentioned on the label. The product associated with the recall is 80g Ajitas Vege Deli Crisps Original with all best before ...
Tags: Vege Chip, Vegetable Crisps
There has been some uneconomic duplication of facilities such as loading jetties at the three LNG export projects being built on Curtis Island offshore the eastern Australian port of Gladstone, a senior executive at one of the projects ...
Tags: LNG Terminals, Chemicals
An Australian-UK consortium is offering a epitaxial silicon carbide buffer layer for 300mm silicon wafers, claiming it will improve gallium nitride growth for GaN-on-Si LED fabrication. The buffer is the result of over 10 years research ...
Unconventional gas from central Australia's Cooper Basin could be the answer to a looming supply shortage in the eastern state of New South Wales, according to Beach Energy Managing Director Reg Nelson. Beach has been among the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Gas
The Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Facility (QMF) of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and its industry partner, plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK, have ...
Tags: Silicon, Micro and Nanotechnology
In the week ended May 27, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.4 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 9.75 percent ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Cotton Australia has welcomed the Queensland Government's announcement for new water licenses in north-west Queensland, which may pave the way for additional cotton-growing areas in the state. Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and ...
Tags: Cotton, Australia, Queensland, Textile
The SCLAA, in conjunction with UQ Business School, is calling for nominations for the 2013 Supply Chain and Logistics Management Scholarship. This scholarship is a national program for all members of the SCLAA. Scholarship value $4,960 ...
Tags: Service
After a torrid trading week that saw more than $30 billion wiped off local stocks and the Australian dollar slide further, investors will be hoping for some economic cheer from China this week to offset further confirmation that Australia's ...
Australians are continuing to cut back on owning shares directly and, most particularly, through managed funds, according to an Australian Securities Exchange survey out yesterday. The survey, conducted every two years, reveals that more ...