Material Handling & Lifting Equipment Feature Articles

Only 38 per cent of Generation X, tertiary qualified women participating in a long-running University of Melbourne study or work full-time, compared to 90 per cent of Generation X, ...

Feature of the week: Although the government has delayed its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme until at least 2013, it is still in the interest of businesses in all sectors to start ...

After ten years of painstaking research into the popular Black Tiger prawn, CSIRO's Food Futures Flagship and Australian prawn farmers have developed a new prawn that is producing ...

Feature of the week: Logistics and haulage firms are up in arms over a new wave of registration and fuel charges to be introduced across the country from 1 July, 2010.

Over 27,000 ships visited Australian ports in 2007-08. As the point of entry and exit of over $300 billion in goods, or 70% of all imports and 80% of exports by value, Australia's ...

Feature of the week: Every year Australian businesses purchase millions of computers, printers and televisions, and throw out their old ones.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has renewed calls for Australia's banks to make a greater effort to understand and meet the needs of the small business sector following ...

The production of clean energy and the treatment of waste water are set to become easier thanks to ANU researchers.

Where there is emotional intelligence in the workplace, there are likely to be happy, and productive employees who work as a team.

Feature article of the week: For the construction industry, the recently released 2010-2011 Federal Budget is focusing on building foundations for skill training. This marks a strong ...

CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences has released a book – Make It Safe: A Guide to Food Safety – which provides small-scale food manufacturers with a practical guide to controlling ...

Australia's failure to accurately measure and predict emissions from deforestation, and the difficulty it has had in reducing deforestation, should send a warning signal to the world, ...

A major national study aimed at identifying the secrets of business success for small and medium enterprises gets underway this week.

Curtin University of Technology researchers have developed computer software that can detect unusual behaviour in crowds and other high-motion environments, providing a new tool in ...

Chaos theory could hold the key to making the in-situ leaching process a more effective ore extraction technique, according to a team of CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship scientists. ...

Reserve Bank interest rate increases are always difficult for business and all borrowers across the economy.

During the production of pre-packaged fruit and juices, portions such as the skin are often unused. Some fruit by-products are currently used in animal feed, but most often it is ...

The Henry review into Australia's Future Tax System makes an historic and significant contribution to the economic reform debate in Australia.

With significant geographic, language and cultural barriers, nations that are typically considered "Western," (Western Europe and its former empire), are divided from cultures that ...

As the economy recovers with its corresponding effect on workloads, a Deakin University academic has urged companies to make sure their middle managers have time for their friends.