Control Components has announced that Kayden Instruments Inc of Alberta Canada has appointed Control Components its exclusive Australian distributor for its range of thermal dispersion technology products.

JMP Engineering, a turnkey provider of palletising, packing, stretch-wrapping and conveying systems, has announced the opening of a new office in Brisbane.

Activity in the manufacturing sector declined at its fastest rate in 17 years during April as Australian firms cut stocks in reaction to reduced demand for goods, a survey shows.

The Queensland Department of Mines and Energy says a third-year apprentice has been injured while helping to maintain a mobile crusher at a mine.

CrispTech, an industrial communications solutions provider, will have different contact details and will not be reachable on its old phone number after 1 May 2009.

National Instruments has opened registration for the 2009 NI Technical Symposiums, the company’s free annual professional development series of conferences to be held in Australia and New Zealand in May this year.

DP World Australia (formerly P&O Ports ANZ) has recently paid $80,000 after a damaged valve in a storage container leaked ethyl acrylate at its Coode Island terminal in Melbourne.

Australian compressor technology group Champion Compressors has been named as the exclusive Australian distributor for Bidell Equipment LP (Bidell), a Canadian-based supplier of reciprocating and rotary-screw natural gas compressors.

Industrial automation leader Rockwell Automation will be showcasing its scalable solutions for the packaging industry at Auspack 2009, to be held in Sydney 16 to 19 June.

Edwin Wakefield, a 70-year-old South African engineer, has just successfully completed a three-month, part-time course in PLCs and SCADA Systems, offered by IDC Technologies.

Champion Compressors has launched an air-compressor service division in Mudgee, central New South Wales.

Yokogawa's Stardom and Centum VP control systems, and ABB's System 800xA extended automation system, are the first host systems to pass the Fieldbus Foundation's Host Profile Registration Process.

Industrial automation and control manufacturer Yokogawa has established a presence in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Vision and robotic products manufacturer ControlVision has signed an agreement to distribute the LMI Technologies maestro and FireSync products throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Invensys Process Systems has received the 2009 Frost & Sullivan South East Asia Industrial Technologies Award for 'Customer Service Leadership for Safety Systems' at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.