Air & Hydraulic Systems has been appointed as the Australian distributor for J+J Electric Actuators.

Victorian inventor Stephen Shelly has been announced as a finalist in INNOVIC’s International Next Big Thing Award 2009 for his Creative Water Technology, a ‘water cleaning’ system.

A range of fuel catalysts has been launched in Australia which has the potential to reduce carbon emissions from all industries that use diesel, heavy fuel oil, coal and gas.

Telvent has announced it is partnering with Longwatch to integrate components of the Longwatch Surveillance System with the Telvent OASyS DNA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.

Schneider Electric and Krohne have unveiled a joint pipeline management solution at Gastech 2009 in Abu Dhabi.

The Fieldbus Foundation's announced copyright agreement with Prolist International means that fieldbus parameter names and definitions will be included in standardised device specifications.

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has joined Intergraph’s SmartPlant Alliance, integrating its software with Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise engineering solutions.

Boge Compressors has appointed Perth-based Cleveland Compressed Air Services as a distributor of the Boge range of compressors and ancillary equipment.

The Fieldbus Foundation, through its EMEA operations, has joined the Applied Control Technology Consortium (ACTC), based in Glasgow, Scotland. Through this membership, the ACTC will undertake a program of formal, quantitative evaluations of Foundation Fieldbus technology.

Manufacturing in Australia has climbed to its highest point in seven months, indicating the pace of decline in the sector is easing, a survey found.

Potential speakers and sponsors are invited to express their interest in FoodTech Connect 09 — an exciting new food industry conference that will take place in Sydney on October 22 and 23.

KSB was awarded the 2009 Green Excellence Environmental Activism Award in London. The award is presented annually for centrifugal pumps by the global consultancy company Frost & Sullivan.

ABB has announced a new series of training workshops that highlight safety considerations for robotic production systems.

A report released today at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) conference in Darwin reports that oil and gas could drive Australia's economic recovery if governments take the steps needed to get billions of dollars of existing projects off the ground.

Murdoch University has been awarded $20 million by the federal government to host Australia’s new National Centre of Excellence in Desalination.