New alarm suite helps industrial plant operators identify and address most important automation alarms. Read more »

Australia's first Professional Process Safety Engineers have been announced at the Hazards Australasia conference in Perth. Read more »

Over the past three years Maric has recorded a 32% increase in exports, which now account for 40% of total sales, and overall turnover has surged 11% in the first four months of 2013-14. Read more »

Attitudes towards process safety need a mindset and culture change, from the boardroom down, according to Judith Hackitt, president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Read more »

Heat transfer specialist HRS Heat Exchangers has announced it will open a new office in Australia in the new year. The Melbourne office will be headed by Chris Little, an experienced mechanical engineer with expertise in HRS' larger systems. Read more »

AOG has announced two new zones for the 2014 event: the Non-destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Zone and the Instrumentation, Control and Automation Zone. Read more »

Cope Air Technologies has announced it will distribute Omega Air Filtration products in Australia and New Zealand. The Omega product range is manufactured in Europe and, according to Cope Air’s Managing Director, is offered at affordable prices. Read more »

The recent Automation Fair event, held in Houston on 11-15 November, attracted more than 100 exhibitors and more than 9700 manufacturing and industrial professionals. Read more »

Metso's Process Technology and Innovation team has been honoured at The Premier of Queensland's Export Awards for its delivery of innovative technical solutions to the global resources industry. Read more »

The Make Australia campaign has launched an online petition calling on Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane to act to save Australia's car manufacturing industry. Read more »

The Sinopec Maoming Company has selected Honeywell's business management and automation technology for its ageing petrochemical plants in Guangdong Province in China. Read more »

Metso Mining and Construction has been awarded a contract to supply two MP2500 cone crushers for Kalumbila Minerals' Sentinel project, which is located 150 km west of Solwezi, north-west Zambia. Read more »

CAPS Australia's manufacturing division has developed a large packaged skid to support a major natural gas project in Pakistan that will provide energy to thousands of homes and businesses across the country. Read more »

Orica has signed a major natural gas agreement with Esso Australia and BHP Billiton to purchase up to 42 PJ of natural gas per year for three years. Read more »

Emerson Process Management has introduced its new General Manager and Managing Director responsible for Australia and New Zealand: Karl Wigginton. Read more »

As part of its expansion in Australia, Pepperl+Fuchs has moved its head office. The company's new headquarters is in a facility previously occupied by Govan in Campbellfield, Melbourne. Read more »

Rumours that Energy Australia's Wallerawang power station is set to close are just that - rumours. According to Paul Toole, the Member for Bathurst, the company has refuted speculation that the power plant will be mothballed by March 2014. Read more »

Even if Holden continues manufacturing cars in Australia, most - if not all - of the work will be done by robots, a union official has predicted. Read more »

An engineering student has won JCU's annual Charles (CN) Barton Medal for his fourth-year thesis, an in-depth investigation into improving the efficiency of bulk materials handling. Read more »

In a further step towards automation in the supermarket, Cornell University engineers have trained a robot to work as a 'checkout chick' in a simulated grocery checkout. Read more »