Many Australian businesses appear not to be pulling their weight when it comes to their corporate social responsibility, according to a recent report by consultant firm Grant Thornton.

Emerson Process Management has opened the Southeast Asia Service Centre in Singapore to make its full range of automation services more accessible to the Asia–Pacific market.

International independent training organisation OPC Training Institute (OPCTI) will, on 16 September, address the impact of the OPC Foundation's OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specification on the worldwide manufacturing industry.

Citect has been named the Asia Pacific HMI and SCADA Company of the Year at the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Industrial Technological Awards.

With the acquisition of German company innotec, Siemens will now be able to offer clients an inegrated software solution covering plant planning, production and modernisation.

An advance in compressor technology is now available in Australia that can provide environmental benefits and cost savings for industry.

Citect has been named the Asia Pacific HMI and SCADA Company of the Year at the prestigious 2008 Frost and Sullivan Asia Pacific Industrial Technological Awards.

The University of Queensland has secured $810,000 in funding to develop technology that will help reduce power consumption, maintenance and operational costs in the manufacturing industry.

Boge Compressors has expanded its operation with the relocation to larger premises in Rockingham, WA.

The Department of Mining Safety and Health has issued a product recall of Industrial Scientific’s 4CF carbon monoxide sensors, after finding some makes could suddenly stop detecting the gas.

Technology that can cut CO₂ emissions from industry, power stations and shipping has been developed by a South Australian company.

The prestigious Quazza Medal has been awarded to the University of Newcastle’s Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin for his contribution to electrical engineering.

Sugar manufacturer CSR has announced it will spend $17.8 million to increase its ethanol production capacity to 60 megalitres (ML) per annum, to match strong demand by Australian oil companies for fuel-grade ethanol.

Australian manufacturing activity has hit a near three-year low as high interest rates slow the economy, the performance of manufacturing index (PMI) shows.

GE Energy is garnering support from governments and industry to build a $3 billion Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant by 2015.