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…
CMPA Honorary Voting Member, JACK KRAAN reports on his career in planning and the growth of his business. I began my association with the extractive industries in the mid 1970’s, not long after graduating from Latrobe University with an honours…
SARAH SHEDDEN, R&M Solutions reports on the value and reliability of the companies’ unique service. QUITE often if a machine is still working – most individuals would not really think it needs to be fixed. Why fix it now? Just…
CRAIG BATTEN, National Manager Mining Services at Vermeer reports on the excavation of the new Hunter Expressway. A Vermeer Terrain Leveler is assisting with rock excavation on the $1.7 billion Hunter Expressway project that will cut travel times between Newcastle…
LAWRIE HURLEY, State Manager for Roylances provides an insight into the family owned business. ROYLANCES is a family owned company based in Victoria and New South Wales, supplying automotive, industrial and wear parts to the mining, quarrying and construction industries.…
PAUL TIMONEY, Sales & Marketing Manager for Indeco Australia Pty Ltd reports on the benefits of its Secondary Breaking Boom Systems THE J H Cuthbertson quarry at Jindivick has grown from humble beginnings a quarter of a century ago to…