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Australian cranes and lifting technology and service leader Konecranes has won the ‘Best Practice in Safety’ award at the 2019 Bulk Handling Awards for its advanced planned maintenance technology, MAINMAN. Konecranes’ MAINMAN technology is used in major infrastructure, industrial, logistics and materials handling projects where equipment must be cost-efficiently maintained in peak condition to optimise […]

Adaptalift Group is fully backing the new Hyster UT Series and Yale UX Series, which fill a gap in the market for high quality, low usage forklifts, backed by reliable service Australian materials handling leader Adaptalift Group is backing the new Hyster UT and Yale UX Series lift trucks to satisfy a strong need in […]

Engineers Australia has appointed Dr Bronwyn Evans HonFIEAust FTSE CPEng as chief executive officer. Dr Evans is an experienced and respected CEO who brings a wealth of leadership and commercial and policy expertise gained across a career spanning both corporate and not-for-profit roles at the forefront of engineering in Australia and globally. These have included […]

To mark a 40 year partnership milestone between Dinolift and its Finnish dealer Rotator Oy, Dinolift has made a donation to the University of Turku for the development of future battery technology. In the late 1970s the market for drainage machines was declining and Dinolift – in those days named Kurpan Konepaja – was starting […]

In 2018 JCB set new records for turnover, machine sales and earnings as global markets for construction equipment and agricultural machinery remained strong, however, this growth has now stalled, with many markets softening this year. UK-based JCB said that its sales turnover in 2018 rose by 22% to £4.1 billion (2017: £3.35 billion), while machine […]

The Australian Industry (Ai) Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI) rose 1.8 points to 53.1 in August, driven by increasing levels of production and rising exports*. Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox said, “Stronger production, sales, and employment combined in a small though encouraging lift in the Australian PMI for August. While it […]

Researchers from Australia’s Deakin University are working to create a new type of battery material that will reduce the cost and environmental impact of high performance batteries. The team from Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) is working in partnership with Calix Pty Ltd at their Bacchus Marsh manufacturing facility and Melbourne-based Boron Molecular […]

EWP specialist Elevated Access NZ Ltd has signed a new exclusive agreement to distribute Sinoboom products in New Zealand. Elevated Access NZ initially stocked Sinoboom scissor lifts in 2014, but it had proved difficult to get substantial numbers of the machines into New Zealand. However Terry Tibbitts, national sales manager for Elevated Access says, “Customer […]

LiftEx 2019 taking place on 13 – 14 November 2019 in Milton Keynes, UK includes an exhibition the LEEA Awards and will focus on training and knowledge on Day 2. The Day 2 focus on training and knowledge at LiftEx 2019 is a new initiative, in which LEEA Learning & Development and Technical teams offer […]

Ai (Australian Industry) Group urged the Prime Minister and State and Territory leaders to use the recent COAG (Council of Australian Governments) meeting in Cairns to genuinely tackle the reform of Australia’s training system. Ai’s group chief executive, Innes Willox said, “With the global economy now in choppy waters and Australia falling down the world’s […]