RIO TINTO will sell Alcan Composites to Swiss-based Schweiter Technologies.
23/09/2009
AUSTIN Engineering has acquired the Chile-based steel dump truck body business of Conymet for US$19.6m ($23.23m).
05/08/2009
BLUESCOPE Steel’s Colorbond steel paintline at Erskine Park has been awarded the Western Sydney Industry Awards.
21/08/2008
AUSTIN Engineering has confirmed that it will acquire a leading steel dump truck body business in Chile.
07/07/2009
ENVIROZEL says its earnings for the financial year to 30 June 2009 were negatively impacted by the performance of its steel fabrication business National Engineering.
06/08/2009
THERMAL Coding Australia has launched a new division called Laser Coding Australia.
24/06/2010
THE WORD Press, editorial and marketing strategy specialists has launched a free analysis service for executives of industrial, transport and mining companies.
02/02/2010
MURDI Paaki Regional Enterprise (MPREC) will purchase the Coonamble Steel operation with the assistance of an Indigenous Small Business Fund (ISBF) grant.
04/06/2008
A METAL fabricator has been nominated for the Greater Dandenong Premier Regional Business Awards partly because of its corporate responsibility policies and ethics.
27/06/2008
E&A Limited (EAL) has announced it will be merging the business operations of its wholly owned subsidiaries Louminco and Whyalla Fabrications into E & A Contractors.
02/12/2009
SOUTH Australian initiatives to reduce governmental red tape have saved metal manufacturers millions of dollars per year, according to an independent study.
22/08/2008
ACCORDING to the Hepburn Advocate, a former foundry in Trentham could be seeing a second life in the metal business – as a scrap processor.
21/10/2008
THE GLOBAL downturn of the steel business has been fingered as a key factor behind a $130m lawsuit being filed against Fortescue Metals by Greek shipping group Angelicoussis.
05/01/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Steel Institute (ASI) says it is being sponsored by St.George Corporate & Business Bank.
30/03/2009
FORD’S Geelong engine plant will stay open, preserving 1300 jobs and business for parts makers.
21/11/2008
FABRICATION and construction business Haywards has secured a $10m contract to provide roof framing for a new Victorian sporting stadium.
20/01/2009
SYDNEY-based Custom Group says current business conditions are tilting the playing field toward local outsourcing of fabrication operations.
12/02/2009
HEAVY fabricator Austin Engineering has announced a 75% in first-half annual profit, and says it will be looking to acquire various companies and assets.
18/02/2009
REED Business Information, which runs the Metalworker industrial news site and newsletter, will be taking an end-of-year break between 21 December 2009 and 8 January 2010.
16/12/2009
DANDENONG-based metal fabrication business A Bending Company has had its health and safety fine tripled after an appeal in court.
13/05/2010