The front-runners in the 2013 World Solar Challenge have crossed the border into South Australia on the approach to the finish line in the epic sun-powered continent-splitting race. The Nuon Solar Team from the Netherlands leads the field ...
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The area of plantation for cotton in Australia, in the 2013-14 harvest season, is forecast to fall by 2 percent to around 434,000 hectares, according to the Australian Crop Report—September 2013 edition, released by the Australian ...
The Chinese-built Foton Tunland has been updated for 2014 with new technology, equipment, model designations and reduced driveaway pricing. Distributed locally by FAA Automotive Australia, the one-tonne dual cab Foton Tunland gains ...
Tags: car, auto, Transportation
CHEP Australia has launched a new state-of-the-art centrifugal dryer technology it says will deliver fresh produce crates that are 80 per cent drier than those processed through tunnel dryers. Installed at the company's Scoresby service ...
Tags: Drying System, Packaging, Printing, centrifugal dryer
CHEP Australia has launched new technology for the fresh produce industry that is said to deliver an 80 per cent dryer crate, wit the claim that it makes the reusable plastic crates the driest on the market. The state-of-the-art ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, dryer
Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott says Australia’s remaining car makers will need to increase their export volumes if they plan to secure further funding from his new government. Addressing journalists at a press conference at ...
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Hundreds of delegates from countries representing 90% of the global LNG trade returned to Tokyo this year to hash out the debate started years ago by the discovery of new North American and African gas supplies -- whether to move away from ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Manufacturers and expert researchers from across Australia have come together to pledge their professional commitment to turning around Australia's manufacturing industry with an equivalent $2 million value-in-kind commitment to ...
Australian-owned Tru Blu Beverages has achieved its aim of material handling cost reduction by switching to a fleet of Linde forklifts. Comparison tests during the selection process highlighted the advantages which have continued since ...
Reportedly, the Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has started the new Daunia mine in Queensland. Also, the Daunia mine is the company's ninth operating metallurgical coal mine in central Queensland. It's learned that BHP Billiton ...
Tags: Coal Mine, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Telstra and its subcontractor Motorola, have been chosen to design, build, operate and maintain a new Queensland government wireless network (GWN) in a deal worth $457.3 million covering a 15-year period. Telstra beat other candidates in ...
Tags: Wireless Deal, Computer Products
The winners of the 2013 Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, held in cooperation between the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, and Telstra Enterprise and Government, All Purpose Transport, ...
ALDI Queensland managing director Viktor Jakupec and CHEP Australia and New Zealand president Phillip Austin have jointly launched a new-generation reusable plastic crate, 'Gen 3' for the fresh produce industry at ALDI's Salisbury store in ...
Tags: Chain Transport, Service
Transport Certification Australia (TCA) will be expanding the Intelligent Access Program (IAP) to incorporate the use of type-approved on-board mass units (OBMU), to be known as IAP Mass (IAPm). Commonly recognised as weigh scales or mass ...
Australia's largest cotton farm, the Cubbie Station, has received approval for building an Au$ 30 million cotton ginnery on the farm located in Dirrabandi town in South West Queensland. The 93,000 hectare farm was acquired by a foreign ...