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Safety awareness in PPE clothing
Feature of the week: More safety awareness in producing personal protection equipment (PPE) clothing is imperative if accidents are to be averted in sensitive voltage areas.
AUS's mining sector looks strong for the future
Feature of the week: Despite lingering effects of the global financial crisis, as manifested by continued economic crises in Southern Europe (Greece and Spain) and in Britain, the ...
The gulf that separates consultants & manufacturers
Feature of the week: Keith Monaghan was not impressed. The president of the Plastics Industry Manufacturers of Australia (PIMA) had just picked up the phone. A consultant was on the ...
Dumping on proposed nuclear waste dump
Feature of the week: Environmental groups are calling for plans for Australia's first large scale nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory to be put on hold, ...
Trucking industry demands answers on important issues
Feature of the week: The Australian Trucking Association has put more pressure on all major political parties by demanding answers to future plans concerning trucking industries in ...
Safety around electrically powered vehicles
Feature of the week: Power regulators in each state are set to deliberate on a draft Australian Standard designed to unify methods of work around electrically powered vehicles, ...
Climate change challenges ahead for Murray-Darling Basin
Feature of the week: Leading Australian and International Climate Change experts have come together for a timely workshop, to discuss adaption options for wetlands in the Murray ...
Commercial and industrial building set for recovery
The next two years will see a gradual upturn in Australia's commercial and industrial building, but this will not be enough to offset a dramatic decline in Government building work, ...
Waste management's rennaissance period
Feature of the week: The national boom in recycling is leading to a renaissance of the waste management industry, as firms open new facilities to deal with new types of material ...
Workplaces still lack women
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, ...
Businesses must make their own carbon action plans
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 ...
AUS's 1st climate change adaptation conference
The first international conference held in Australia to discuss the science and options for adapting to climate change begins on the Gold Coast on Tuesday 29 June.
Conditions remain robust despite fall in business sentiment
The June quarter 2010 ACCI-Westpac Survey of Industrial Trends showed a marked softening of manufacturers’ General Business Sentiment for the second half of 2010, amidst softening ...
New wave of charges has logistics firms up in arms
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.
Port operators: A ship-shape industry reshapes
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 ...
Waste management for Australian businesses
Feature of the week: Every year Australian businesses purchase millions of computers, printers and televisions, and throw out their old ones.
Foam breaker cleans waterways
Australian scientists have developed a groundbreaking treatment to clean up the highly toxic and persistent foam chemicals used worldwide to fight thousands of fires.
Could compost replace synthetic fertilisers?
Feature of the week: Farmers are being urged to change their use of chemically produced fertilisers for food production, and utilise an alternative plant food such as compost, to ...
 Access to finance a major barrier to SME exporters
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 ...
Fertiliser helps weed control
Feeding weeds fertiliser sounds like exactly the wrong thing, if you want to get rid of them, but Jennifer Firn of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems has been doing just that - to control ...
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