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20 Mar

Enhancing Industrial Operations with Tailored Storage Solutions

We are excited to share a compelling use case that illustrates how our tailored storage solutions revolutionize industrial operations. Through collaboration, innovation, and a customer-centric approach, we empower businesses to achieve unparalleled efficiency and safety in their storage processes. Scenario: Customer Challenge: A prominent industrial client in Collie, WA, faces the challenge of storing emulsifier

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24 Nov

Dual purpose double skin lube system

Managing waste lube and fresh lubricant in one service. Complying with mine site hazardous goods management specifications. Pumping equipment and accessories supplied and fitted 2 x AODD Alemlube 40mm pumps 1 x HRO991 hose reels, 15m x 25mm hose (Oil evacuation reel with Wiggins Oil Evac Coupler) 1 x HRO991 hose reels, 15m x 25mm

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20 Feb

Newmont set to automate trucks in Boddington gold mine

Newmont’s Boddington gold mine in Western Australia will become the world’s first open pit gold mine with an autonomous truck fleet, following the approval of a $150 million investment into a Caterpillar autonomous haulage system (AHS). The company expects the investment will extend Boddington’s mine life by at least two years through the improved efficiencies

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08 Jan

Fast supply of Modulaveyor to iron ore mine

When a surge pile of 200 tonnes of mined material collapsed in a mine in Tasmania, the existing modular conveyor system had to be replaced as quickly as possible. Fenner Dunlop was the only company in the region that could guarantee quick delivery and installation of a 450mm wide and 30m long modular-built belt conveyor

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31 Oct

A Huge Misconception About Meat-Eating: Cows Are Not Killing the Climate

As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it. A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse gases than

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17 Aug

Coal miner cuts costs with rail loop upgrade

Coal junior Bounty Mining says a $2 million rail capacity upgrade at Cook Colliery in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has reduced operating costs by at least $5 a tonne. Bounty told the ASX on August 14 it had completed an upgrade of the Koorilgah rail loop at Cook Colliery, to allow the operation of full capacity

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17 May

Farmers angry over NSW Health’s Dairy Farmers choice

A decision by the NSW Health Department to dump local dairy firm Norco for foreign-owned Dairy Farmers for a major milk supply contract has come under fire from the local farming community. NSW Health recently awarded a supply contract for 15 north coast health facilities to Dairy Farmers, which is owned by Japan’s Kirin Holdings.

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14 May

Minerals Council calls for structural reforms

The Minerals Council of Australia says the federal budget has again highlighted the importance of the resources sector to the nation’s economy and has called for structural reforms to secure long-term prosperity, including the proposed cut to the company tax rate. The 2018-19 federal budget, handed down by treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday night, forecasts

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09 Jan

Gupta to buy Glencore’s Tahmoor coal mine

Fresh off his company’s acquisition of the Whyalla steelworks last year, British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta will buy the Tahmoor mine off commodities giant Glencore, to supply the steelworks with coking coal. Gupta entered the public eye in Australia when he spent almost $700 million to rescue embattled steel business Arrium from bankruptcy last year, buying

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09 Jan

McGowan defends rejected Mineral Resources expansion

WA Premier Mark McGowan has defended a decision to block the expansion of Mineral Resources’ mining operation at Yilgarn, despite the miner’s announcement roughly 400 jobs will be lost. Mineral Resources, an ASX-listed miner, wants to expand its Yilgarn iron ore project via two new project areas, in a move that would add 15 years

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