Compressor sales, service and hire company, PremiAir has joined forces with international compressor technology group, Sullair Australia.

BOC is partnering with Alcoa World Alumina Australia and CSBP, a Wesfarmers subsidiary, in a 15-year contract that is set to be the biggest in Australia using waste carbon dioxide (CO2).

The 2006 Engineering Excellence Awards have this year recognised the world-class expertise of Queensland engineers with the award of the overall RW Hawken Award being presented to Brisbane-based Sinclair Knight Merz working with HOK Sport Venue & Event for their work on the Nanjing Sports Park in China.

Honeywell has been awarded a $17.5 million contract to supply process controls for Vietnam’s first oil refinery. The Technip Consortium, which will build the refinery in Dung Quat for state-owned company PetroVietnam, selected Honeywell to supply its process automation system, the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS). The refinery will begin production in central Vietnam in early 2009.

More students must be encouraged to take up maths and science in schools if the federal government’s move to increase university engineering places is to have any effect, the Association of Consulting Engineers Australia (ACEA) has warned.

High technology manufacturing excellence was in the spotlight at the biennial Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA) Excellence Awards held in Melbourne on Wednesday 18 October.

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today announced that it has achieved certification from the support centre practices (SCP) certification program for the fourth consecutive year. The company again met the SCP compliance requirements, as well as the SCP community benchmark average.

A $125 million investment in two Victorian energy projects will help cut greenhouse gas emissions in Australia's energy sector over the next 30 years, the federal government says.

The Victorian Minister for Planning, Rob Hulls, has granted AGL Energy Limited (AGL) planning approval for the proposed 330 megawatt Macarthur Wind Farm, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and one which will be world class in terms of size, scale and latest turbine technology.

A senior engineering executive with a strong background in project management, Sean Woellner, is the new chief executive officer of Tenix Alliance.

NHP has announced the signed agreement between R Stahl and NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty Ltd for the purpose of distributing its range of hazardous area equipment into the Australian market.

APV, part of the Invensys Group, has announced the completion of its US$5m purpose-built manufacturing plant in Xidu, Shanghai. The factory will manufacture and assemble pumps, valves and other fabricated products for the Chinese market.

Omron has acquired Scientific Technologies, Incorporated, (hereafter, STI) for a purchase price of AU$125 million.

Control Components has been appointed as a distributor for Lake Monitors Inc of the USA.

Machine vision sensors and systems supplier, Cognex Corporation has received a purchase order in excess of a quarter of a million US dollars from a leading supplier to the aerospace industry. The customer has purchased Cognex's DataMan 7500 handheld ID readers for a major project requiring part traceability.