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Advanced Diploma EIM 2018

By Gavin Moreira

    DIANE WILSON, Project Manager for Extractive Industries for Box Hill Institute reports on the Advanced Diploma of Extractive Industries Management course.   The Advanced Diploma of EIM is specifically designed for supervisors and operational managers within the quarrying industry, normally with direct reporting accountabilities to senior management within the organisation or the owners …

National Heavy Vehicle Regulation – Summary of Amended Law

By Gavin Moreira

DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, General Manager of CMPA, summarises the changes to the NHVR. The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) looks after one rule book for heavy vehicles over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass. Chain of Responsibility (CoR) regulations have been in place since 10 February 2014, however, not in WA or NT. Changes to the …

Hanson Australia Acquires Alex Fraser Group

By Gavin Moreira

  The Chief Executive of Hanson Australia, Phil Schacht said “the acquisition was consistent with Hanson Australia’s strategy. The acquisition of Alex Fraser represents an important step for Hanson Australia, as we continue to look at strategic opportunities in sectors where there are obvious synergies” “We believe it is important for Alex Fraser to retain …

William Adams – 982M Aggregate Package Increases Productivity

By Gavin Moreira

The 982M Aggregate Package has been specifically designed to reduce passes when loading trucks in a sales yard application. Equipped with the 7 cubic metre Performance Series bucket and Caterpillar Payload Management System (CPM) that is exactly what it achieved in a recent site demonstration. With the Melbourne concrete market seeing record volumes in recent …