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Rio Tinto boosts stake in Australia’s second-largest smelter Rio Tinto has acquired Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation’s interest in the Boyne Island aluminium smelter. It bought the 11.65 per cent interest in Boyne Smelters, which owns and operates the Gladstone, QLD based smelter, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition follows Rio Tinto’s agreement to purchase shares in…

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QLD to research ways to improve silicosis sufferers returning to work

The Queensland Government is funding the University of Queensland’s development of methods for earlier detection and screening, treatment, and return-to-work processes for workers suffering from dust lung diseases. The research is focused on people suffering from early stage, occupational lung diseases such as silicosis and coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, predominately in the mining and artificial stone…

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Quickstep delivers its 100th drone aircraft

Composites manufacturer Quickstep is gaining new successes in the drone manufacturing business, recently passing its 100th drone delivered for customers Swoop Aero and Carbonix. The Sydney company is more used to manufacturing critical aerospace parts such as wing trailing edges for Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Super Hercules transporter and tail components for the F-35 Lightning fighter…

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