Honeywell has won the 2008 Most Innovative Power Technology of the Year Award from Asian Power magazine, for a controls project that helps increase electricity generation while cutting coal consumption at a Chinese power plant.

Melbourne-based company Global EARS has won the Small Business Export Award for its successful marketing of the Exhausted Air Recycling System (EARS) for air compressors.

Bonfiglioli Transmission has been honoured at the 2008 Australian Bulk Handling Awards for its commitment to the Australasian market, exhibited by its major investments in new stock, technology and facilities in the region.

ABB and Saab AB have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on solutions for the civil security market and process industries.

Madison Technologies has acquired Paqworks, snaring its well-established brands including Westermo, Moxa, Cybertec, Mobotix, GarrettCom and ADSTec.

German company Additive has appointed Applied Measurement Australia as its Australian distributor of the IMC product range.

Two engineering students from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne recently presented Snowy Hydro with a fully functioning control system simulator that will now be used to replace some of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme's outdated systems.

Drives manufacturer SEW-Eurodrive has established its first South Australian sales and services centre.

Energy Recovery has announced its PX Pressure Exchanger energy recovery technology has been awarded the pump industry’s top honours for innovation of the year.

Motion control solutions manufacturer Moog Australia has appointed David Hodge as the managing director, replacing Roy Park, who headed the company's Australian operations for 25 years.

The Harting Technology Group will use this year's SPS/IPC/DRIVES exhibition in Nuremberg to unveil ‘Fast Track Switching’, claimed to be the first system of its kind in the world that provides open and universal ethernet networking down to machine levels.

Bonfiglioli has set up a permanent office in Singapore to further propel expansion of its Asia–Pacific and Australasian operations and supply high-growth markets in the South-Asia region.

The Rudd government has said it will reveal the final design of its emissions trading scheme, along with a medium-term target range for reductions, on Monday 15 December.

IDC Technologies has won a contract with Western Power to provide the training and associated materials for the Diploma in Power Transmission based on the standards efforts of EE-OZ.

Innovative Conveying Systems International has taken out the 2008 Australian Bulk Handling Award for excellence in transport and conveying.