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Work Safe Victoria will hold a free workshop showing employers how to help injured workers return to work sooner.
07/02/2012 |
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NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has backed National Manufacturing Week - Australia's largest integrated manufacturing industry event as a "crucial" industry event.
07/02/2012 |
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Defence manufacturing has always been considered a steady, if not tight niche market for local industry; however last week’s announcement that at Thales will sack up to 60 employees at its Bendigo plant brings forth the reality that defence manufacturing is not immune to market forces as the industry has hoped.
07/02/2012 |
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MICRON Technology’s CEO Steve Appleton died on Friday 3 February in a small plane crash, aged 51.
06/02/2012 |
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TOYOTA Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has launched a new range of four-wheel, counter-balance electric forklifts, with capacities from 1.5 to 3 tonnes at 500mm load centre.
06/02/2012 |
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A digital version of Manufacturers’ Monthly February 2012 is now available for free for all newsletter subscribers.
06/02/2012 |
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National packaging group, Pro-Pac Packaging has announced that it will acquire Sydney-based industrial packaging, safety and warehouse product distributor, Hills Industrial Products (Hills) for an undisclosed amount.
06/02/2012 |
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Orica has resumed the restart of its Kooragang Island ammonia plant after repairing a faulty compressor.
06/02/2012 |
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Learning from nature, Festo has built the adaptive gripper DHDG to handle fruit, bulbs or pressure-sensitive food quickly and reliably. This is possible due to the so-called “Fin Ray effect” which is based on the design of the tail fins of fish.
06/02/2012 |
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Jeff Connolly, the current Senior Executive Vice President of Siemens North East Asia, has been appointed as CEO of Siemens in Australia effective 1 March 2012 and succeeds Albert Goller (pictured alongside) who has resigned after nine years in the position.
06/02/2012 |