Industry News
New distributor for Riken Keiki
Control Equipment Pty Ltd has been appointed as the sole Australian agent for the Riken Keiki brand of gas detection equipment.
[ + ]Schneider Electric sells its nuclear business
Schneider sold its nuclear business, based in Grenoble, France, to Data Systems and Solutions, a joint venture formed in 1999 between Rolls Royce in the UK and Science Applications International Corporation in theUS.
[ + ]Airport contract for Citect
Citect has been awarded a contract worth more than AUD$3 million to upgrade the baggage-handling control system at Sydney airport's international terminal.
[ + ]Emerson launches online PlantWeb University
Two of the most common challenges facing process manufacturing professionals are keeping up with/applying technology and quantifying returns on capital before investing in it. Innovative, proven technologies like Foundation fieldbus can revolutionise manufacturing economics.
[ + ]Vibration analysis training
Industrial maintenance practitioners can enhance their predictive maintenance knowledge with a program of vibration analysis training courses being offered by industrial automation group Rockwell Automation Australia.
[ + ]Software acquisition
SSA GT has acquired 100% ownership of Infinium Software, which provides web-integrated enterprise business applications optimised for the IBM eServer iSeries.
[ + ]Amcor sells its US stake
Amcor has moved to consolidate its northern hemisphere closures manufacturing operations, by announcing the sale of its 65% stake of Amcor White Cap LLC for AU$66 million.
[ + ]New market for finned tubes
Sandvik Steel has developed a production method for internally, longitudinally finned, cold finished tubes for use as pyrolysis tubing in the demanding environment of ethylene furnaces.
[ + ]Business and employment remain resilient
Recent economic and tragic events have not had a major impact on business and employment in Australia and a forecast of steady growth is expected in the next two years, according to research released by recruitment firm Hamilton James & Bruce.
[ + ]Galvanizing industry awards
Three of Australia's leading galvanizing contractors have been recognised in the annual Sorel Awards sponsored by Pasminco Metals.
[ + ]One million HMI
Siemens A&D has delivered its one-millionth Simatic HMI system to Rolls-Royce plc at the SPS/IPC/Drives Show 2002 in Nuremberg, Germany.
[ + ]Sony to build LCD plant in China
Japan's electronics maker Sony will invest AU$148 million in the construction of a liquid crystal display (LCD) plant in China, allowing the company to produce LCDs in China for the first time. The plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, will produce high-temperature polysilicon LCDs for digital, still and video cameras and was expected to start operating by the end of March 2004.
[ + ]New Zealand 'snapper' saves components manufacturer millions
A leading New Zealand's mechanical design company has designed a specialised production line machine for a manufacturing plant in Mount Wellington Auckland. The aptly named 'snapper' was developed to help fulfil a large order for TCXO's (Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillators), which are an essential component of many radio, mobile and GPS technologies.
[ + ]Worldwide HMI market set to reach US$590 million
The Human-Machine Interface (HMI) market, which totalled $US414 million in 2001, will hit nearly $US590 million in 2006, outperforming the industrial automation market and growing at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.3 per cent over the next five years, according to a recent ARC Advisory Group study.
[ + ]Major vendor to supply process automation solutions to SA giant
Emerson Process Management has won the initial contract from a South African chemical and engineering conglomerate for a multi-million dollar gas conversion project.
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