ANDREW ALLEN, Head of Operations for FIFO Capital, reports on the challenge of getting on top of cash flow these holidays. IT’S a very old story and it’s known to every business – some trade debtors are slow payers and…
TEJ PANESAR, CMPA Associate Chairperson reflects on the status of Associate Members as your Preferred Suppliers. THE CMPA Associate Members have always played a vital role in bringing quality products and value-added services to the Voting Members. The coherence of…
PAUL TIMONEY, Sales & Marketing Manager for Indeco Australia Pty Ltd reports on the installation of two new Indeco Crusher Boom Systems. WHAT better way to kick off 2013 and marking the 20th year of Indeco Australia with the installation…
CHRIS PROWSE, Managing Director of C.K. Prowse & Associates Pty Ltd, reports on the development of the business. C.K. Prowse & Associates was ‘born’ in 1989 following from my experiences in the quarrying and minerals industries in most Australian states…
CMPA Honorary Voting Member, TOM MCKENNY recalls his involvement in the quarry industry and the development of his career in journalism. THE quarry industry wasn’t something that I had bargained on becoming involved in when I started my journalism career…
KELVIN WILSON, Sales Manager of TSS Company reports on the new home for the Melbourne based engineering group. TSS Company, and its subsidiary Conveyor Pulleys Australia, have relocated into their new office and manufacturing facility in Carrum Downs, Victoria. Servicing…
CMPA Honorary Voting Member, ROBIN HOCKING recalls an earlier life and his progress into the valuation profession and his subsequent interest in quarrying. ROBIN Hocking was born in Castlemaine in 1936 and spent the last three years of schooling at…
JAY MADGETT, Director of Techweigh reports on the integration of belt scales into mobile crushers. NO longer is it complex and expensive to integrate belt scales into mobile crushers. Tecweigh’s dexterity in manufacturing customised and innovative equipment has more recently…
ROB BURNS, Managing Director, Claypro (Australia) Pty Ltd reports on how the “Clayprocess” can help raise Plasticity Index. IN 2004 the reconstruction and duplication of the Calder Highway at Malmsbury was under way. Hanson’s Axedale Quarry had successfully tendered and…
CMPA Honorary Voting Member, BASIL NATOLI reports on the growth of his business and its connection to the extractive industry. MY connection to the extractive industries started with an early interest in geology at secondary school in the mid 1960’s…