Alcoa World Alumina Australia has released its first sustainability report covering Alcoa's operations in Australia, including Alcoa Kaal and Portland Aluminium.

Honeywell Industry Solutions has received a US$17 million order from the Zakum Development Company (Zadco) to supply, engineer, test, commission, and start up an Experion PKS Process Knowledge System for the Zirku and Satah plants on Sirku Island, Abu Dhabi.

The worldwide market for radar level devices is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.3% over the next fiveyears.

A gamble by four ex-Whyalla steelworks apprentices to launch their own business has paid off handsomely with their company on target for a $68 million turnover in 2004.

Sim2003 will provide an overview of the current techniques and software that are being used to solve issues faced by engineers working with fluid power systems around the world.

Responsible care, open software for real-time process monitoring, digital valves for digital plants, cost-effective safety instrumentation, and energy-saving systems, are some of the many innovations and proposals at the CIA2003 International Conference, Asia's most established conference on the chemical, oil & gas and process engineering industries.

Exporter and leading NZ farm machinery manufacturer, Giltrap Engineering was faced with a difficult decision. Its buildings needed to be upgraded and its computer system was not allowing it to run its business efficiently. What would be the best use of its money? This is one of the biggest questions Giltrap has had to answer for some time.

Cadcentre Asia Pacific - the Autodesk Authorised Systems Centre of Mechanical CAD solutions in Victoria - has announced the launch of a new training centre to help take designers and engineers 'to the next level' in their careers.

Processing and marketing more than 1.5 million tonnes of paddy rice annually, Ricegrowers' Cooperative Limited is currently one of Australia's most successful vertically-integrated agribusinesses.

Klaus Endress, CEO of Endress+Hauser Holding and head of the Swiss group's global operations, is visiting Australia during October.

A high level forum on Virtual Product Development (VPD) will be held in Sydney in October to coincide with the Sydney Motor Show.

Leading Australian cotton organisation, Queensland Cotton has purchased a Financial Management Solution (FMS) from software and services company SAS. The solution will be used to help speed up the organisation's monthly reporting, streamline its budgeting and develop robust models for forecasting, thus freeing up its accounting resources for more strategic analysis.

One of the marvels of chemical technology is the development of products with new and unusual properties, not just for consumer applications, but for industrial processes too.

Materials specialists, Sandvik Materials Technology and Tenaris SA, a world leader in tubular technologies for the oil and gas industry, have concluded a strategic alliance under which Tenaris becomes the worldwide distributor for Sandvik's seamless, stainless steel downhole production tubing and other high performance OCTG (oil country tubular goods) products.

Industrial automation company Rockwell Automation has added another dimension to the way it assists customers with the establishment of an Internet-based Asia Pacific 'support' facility. Designed to complement the services of the company's rapidly expanding Asia Pacific Technical Support Centre (TSC), the facility provides a central online resource for support-centre contact details and global support information.