Education

Award recipient praised for outstanding leadership

A south-east Queensland family business operator greatly impressed his program facilitators before being nominated for the 2016 Alex Northover Award. Darren Zanow speaks about the benefits of undertaking further education and winning one of the IQA’s highest honours.
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Education

Superior, agile wheel wash system

Ultrahawke’s UltraWash Geowell wheel wash system efficiently removes the heaviest track materials on wheels, axels, tyres and underbodies in one drive through.
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Education

NZ capital to address impending aggregate shortage

New Zealand’s capital city will exhaust its rock supply within two decades if it does not expand operations at its only quarry.
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Crushing, Education, Processing, Safety, Screens & Feeders, Tips & Advice, Training

Managing safety: finding the balance of procedures, people

It is the view of many professionals that good safety performance in the quarrying and extractive industries is still reliant on human factors and not an increasing array of complex and onerous systems and procedures. John Malempre explains why the “human factor” is still such a vital component in keeping the workplace safe.
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Education

Oiling the wheels of success

An articulated hauler would not be very successful without any gears. A wheel loader would not be a very good earthmoving machine without wheels. An excavator would be worthless without hydraulic valves.
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Case Studies, Education, Training

Training with tangible return

Registered training organisation Australian Training Alliance (ATA) has been a provider of training solutions since 2005 for the construction, mining and quarrying sector nationally.
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Education

Modular recycling jaw shines on its day in the rain

Every product deserves its moment in the sun. It was just unfortunate that Hillhead 2016, the world’s pre-eminent venue for promoting new quarry spec products, was largely inundated with rain from 28 to 30 June.
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Education

Is it really as simple as ?AE??

Field applications engineering is a mixture of engineering and sales activities that provide technical support to the customers of a manufacturer of products. An earthmoving plant and equipment manufacturer has embraced application engineering – or AE – as part of its customer relationships.
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pcm_admin03/08/2016, 10:29 am19/03/2020 0 812

Education

Achieving the best rehabilitation outcomes for future generations

President John Mitas discusses how the industry needs to put plans into practice to protect the environment affected by quarries for the long term.
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