The NSW Business Chamber has developed a manual handling training resource called ‘Manual Handling Toolbox Talks for Employers/Supervisors on behalf of Australian Business Industrial’.
25/06/2010
BRAMBLES says it has lost a US pallet pooling contract with the Quaker Tropicana and Gatorade business units of PepsiCo.
27/03/2009
KENNARDS Lift and Shift has moved its Adelaide business to a new location at Richard Street, Hindmarsh.
10/09/2008
BOOM Logistics says it is restructuring its Melbourne mobile crane operations, consolidating its business to cut costs and focus on more specific sectors.
17/02/2009
A RURAL New South Wales garden centre has commissioned a new forklift truck for unloading pallets of stock from trucks.
03/07/2008
MACKAY-based Porters has commissioned a 2.5t payload forklift truck as part of a $10m upgrade of the business.
19/06/2008
EARTHMOVING business Kieron Reynolds has become the first to choose Toyota Material Handling’s skid-steer loader, truck and finance package.
27/10/2008
GRAINCORP says it will combine its storage and logistics divisions and regions into six new regions, in a major restructure of its business.
18/03/2009
AMCOR says it is in discussions to acquire part of Rio Tinto’s aluminium packaging unit.
09/02/2009
BELEAGUERED pallet manufacturer Pinetec has been bought by Melbourne-based Rodpak, which says it is considering the future employment prospects of Pinetec’s pallet making workers.
19/03/2009
SUPPLY chain and logistics group CRT says it will be deleting the Golden Bros brand, announcing a new integrated brand called ‘Better Ways’.
20/08/2008
SCHENCK Process has acquired Australia’s Screenex business from the Locker Group.
30/09/2008
REED Business Information, which runs the Materials Handling industrial news site and newsletter, will be taking an end-of-year break between 21 December 2009 and 8 January 2010.
17/12/2009
QUEENSLAND-based material handling solution provider IBS Engineering has moved into new custom-built headquarters after almost three decades of operation.
03/09/2008
FLEXILIFT Australia is providing business owners a test run of Hyundai Forklifts’ vehicles, which are said offer a cost efficient high performance fleet.
10/11/2009
The Australian Warehousing Association (AusWA) has been endorsed as a fully financial member of the International Federation of Warehousing and Logistic Associations (IFWLA).
10/06/2010
EDITORIAL and marketing strategy specialists The Word Press has launched a free analysis service for executives of industrial, transport and mining companies.
02/02/2010
THE COMMERCIALISING Emerging Technologies (COMET) grant is helping inventor Tony White commercialise his CHEETA automated self-loader hand truck.
14/04/2009
FAMOUS Pacific Shipping says its recent multi-million dollar investment in a high-spec warehouse is part of its strategy to build its presence in Australia.
13/01/2009
THE MELBOURNE Materials Handling trade show will be running in parallel with Safety In Action from 31 March to 2 April 2009.
25/03/2009