CSIRO has announced the signing of a licensing agreement with Melbourne-based bio-technology medical device company, HD Medical Group Limited, for commercial application of its non-contact sensor technology.

With more than 20 years' mining and heavy construction experience, Mr Peter de Groot has been appointed service manager for Outokumpu Technology's Minerals Processing division in Australia.

As the result of a detailed strategic review of the various business units within the company, Crisp Technologies has decided to split into two separate organisations to better focus on specific business areas.

A product development and engineering alliance has been formed between solid/liquid separation specialists Dorr-Oliver Eimco (DOE) and Alcan Engineering Pty Limited (ALCENG), an engineering division of Alcan International.

Due to the continual growth of AMS Instrumentation & Calibration Pty Ltd in New South Wales, the company is again on the move.

Cardno Limited has announced the acquisition of Grogan Richards Consulting Engineers. Grogan Richards is a 110-person Melbourne headquartered civil, structural, hydraulic, traffic and transportation consulting engineering business.

Iluka Resources, Shedden Uhde, Leighton Contractors and Yella Terra have won ICN Victoria's Industry Achievement Awards for 2006.

Transmark has acquired FCX Australia & New Zealand and formed Transmark Fcx. The Australian and New Zealand operations represent a new regional footprint for the parent company and a significant portion of the €210 million global business. Customers have witnessed rebranding of the company from Pegler Hattersley, to Pegler Beacon, to FCX Australia and FCX New Zealand and recently, to Transmark Fcx. The company distributes valves, actuators, field instrumentation and specialty flow control products.

Wampfler AG will merge as of January 2007 with the Delachaux group, which is listed on the French stock exchange. In this deal Delachaux will take over 100% of Wampfler AG. The purchase price has not been disclosed. The seat in Weil am Rhein, its location as well as the brandname 'Wampfler', will be retained.

BOC, supplier of gases, industrial and safety products in New Zealand, has signed an agreement with Shell to purchase Shell New Zealand’s (Shell NZ) commercial LPG business, including its shareholding in Liquigas.

Lawson Software, a global provider of enterprise software applications, has appointed Stephen Moore as the new vice-president of its Australia and New Zealand operations.

Treotham Trading has announced it has opened a Brisbane office to service the entire state of Queensland.

Swedish company, Magu Automation AB, manufacturers of process equipment for coating mobile phones, and AGA, the Swedish subsidiary of Linde Gas, have agreed to cooperate in the field of surface coating, gas-related products and wet-chemistry. AGA has sold a licence for its concept CC 1200 that Magu will offer its customers. The agreement means Magu can now offer coating and lacquer equipment within a moveable clean room to any supplier of plastic parts around the globe so that surface decoration and functional coating can be carried out on the spot. To install the transportable coating/lacquer equipment to a plastic production unit will take only a few hours.

Peak Oil, the theory that world oil production will soon reach a peak and go into sharp decline, is the subject of a new analysis by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).

Kinder and Co is taking a ‘cradle-to-grave’ approach with plastic components it supplies once they are at the end of their life cycle.