Material Handling & Lifting Equipment Feature Articles

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has slammed the Turnbull Government after it failed to deliver for manufacturing workers and young people desperately seeking secure ...

Electric forklifts versus petrol/diesel forklifts? When it comes to creating a safe and environmentally-friendly workplace, there’s no contest.

There is cause for optimism in the resource and mining sector with export values forecast to increase by 35 per cent by 2020-21, according to the Department of Industry, Innovation ...

Quality: it's one of those overused words we apply to everything – homes, food, fabrics, cars, relationships; you name it, in some way we try to attach quality to it.

Basically the main things you want to look out for when buying anti-slip products is any product that stops you falling over.

The Australian manufacturing sector surged in March to its strongest level of expansion since April 2004.

‘How heavy is it?’ In its most basic form, that’s the question answered by an industrial scale.

Okay, so you’re a small business on the up and up, but your warehouse aisles are more supermarket than superhighway.

Australia's manufacturers have started the new year with a surge of confidence after a sharp jump in the March quarter across a range of measures of performance in the Australian ...

Is scaffolding just a temporary working frame on the outside of a building? Or is a building itself, albeit with a short life span? The latter way of thinking is preferable if you ...

It pays to make time for ‘time in motion.’ In other words, spend the time it takes now to organise your warehouse into an exemplary ‘time in motion’ study and you’ll soon reap the ...

Are you a new warehouse or factory with a blank canvass? Or are you an established operation looking to upgrade?

Bulldozers, scrapers, trucks, excavators, draglines, conveyors, not to mention blasting; mines dig up more ways to assault our senses than most industries.

The global agreement on climate change at the COP21 meeting in Paris was welcomed by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 14 December 2015 as a pragmatic and positive ...

So you want me to drive a high powered vehicle that can turn on a ten cent piece, accelerate at high speed forwards and backwards while carrying tonnes of stock, and then stack said ...

A report released on 25 November 2015 by the Australian Government highlights the key role innovative entrepreneurship needs to play in transforming the nation's economy.

In an earlier article we discussed whether your next manufacturing employee should be a robot.

Have you ever tried to get a children's toy out of its packaging?

Reforms to Australia's anti-dumping system effective from 2 November 2015 will level the playing field for Australian manufacturers and producers.

"Right, so the job is basically 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no breaks, no holidays, no perks, no salary, no super, and no rights. Happy? Great, you can start today!"