Bonfiglioli Transmission has been honoured at the 2008 Australian Bulk Handling Awards for its commitment to the Australasian market, exhibited by its major investments in new stock, technology and facilities in the region.

Melbourne-based company Global EARS has won the Small Business Export Award for its successful marketing of the Exhausted Air Recycling System (EARS) for air compressors.

Madison Technologies has acquired Paqworks, snaring its well-established brands including Westermo, Moxa, Cybertec, Mobotix, GarrettCom and ADSTec.

ABB and Saab AB have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on solutions for the civil security market and process industries.

German company Additive has appointed Applied Measurement Australia as its Australian distributor of the IMC product range.

Two engineering students from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne recently presented Snowy Hydro with a fully functioning control system simulator that will now be used to replace some of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme's outdated systems.

Drives manufacturer SEW-Eurodrive has established its first South Australian sales and services centre.

The Harting Technology Group will use this year's SPS/IPC/DRIVES exhibition in Nuremberg to unveil ‘Fast Track Switching’, claimed to be the first system of its kind in the world that provides open and universal ethernet networking down to machine levels.

Motion control solutions manufacturer Moog Australia has appointed David Hodge as the managing director, replacing Roy Park, who headed the company's Australian operations for 25 years.

Bonfiglioli has set up a permanent office in Singapore to further propel expansion of its Asia–Pacific and Australasian operations and supply high-growth markets in the South-Asia region.