Health and safety management is bombarded with data from all kinds of monitoring technology. Interpreting, disseminating and archiving this information are vital parts of the job. Now Casella CEL has simplified the task with its new data management software package that downloads and manages exposure data for a wide range of occupational hazards, including noise […]

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) presents the Good Practice Guidance on Occupational Health Risk Assessment (HRA) as an information resource for those conducting or commissioning HRAs. According to the International Labour Organization 160 million people in the world suffer occupation related illnesses every year. Reducing the number of such cases inside the […]

A group of leading Australian magnetite iron ore companies have joined forces to increase awareness and understanding of the potentially enormous economic and social benefits offered by the magnetite sector. The Magnetite Network (MagNet) was unveiled to an audience of leading Chinese political and steel industry leaders at a conference held by the Australia China Business […]

Aker Solutions has opened its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, to allow it to capitalise on market demand for fabrication of its proprietary equipment for acid plants, by more than doubling its production capacity. The original fabrication facility was established in Toronto in 1961, and has been designing and fabricating custom shell […]

sp3 Diamond Technologies, a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services, has expanded its chemical vapour deposition (CVD) capability to provide diamond coatings ranging from super smooth nanocrystalline with a surface roughness of less than 10 nm to controlled microcrystalline films with a surface roughness greater than 10 um. Also, sp3’s Model 650 CVD diamond […]

An early draft of a new report from America’s National Academy of Sciences (NAS) urges the federal government to ramp up funding to support the development and deployment of technologies that can help transform coal into liquid transportation fuels. The report, Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass, concluded that the abundance of coal and biomass […]