Manufacturer Adbri has informed the market of another major cost blowout of its Kwinana cement project which is now expected to cost up to $420 million.
Perth company Perdaman has started work on one of WA's largest projects after gaining backing from Global Infrastructure Partners, the same group that backed Woodside’s Pluto gas project.
The federal government has announced grants to three big timber processing companies in WA in another sign the industry’s future rests with softwood plantation timber.
A 30-hectare site in Kwinana has been earmarked for what is billed to be the first-of-its-kind battery materials facility in Australia, spearheaded by ASX-listed IGO and Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals.
Five months after striking a deal to buy Pfizer’s WA manufacturing operation, Bridgewest Group has completed the purchase and outlined plans to add to its 400 local staff.
US regulators have charged three Austal USA executives for their roles in an alleged fraudulent accounting scheme, six months after the shipbuilder settled with ASIC over similar breaches.
A sheet metal manufacturer has been fined $300,000 over an incident that led to a teenage apprentice’s fingers being severed while using the company's machinery.
Drilling and equipment supplier Schramm Group has brought in voluntary administrators less than two weeks after an employee was fatally injured at the company's workshop in Welshpool.
Monadelphous has expanded its recruitment efforts overseas as the company continues to grapple with its “biggest challenge” of industry-wide staff shortages.
Adbri’s Kwinana cement project is looking at cost overruns in the order of up to $90 million-plus, joining a litany of WA projects hamstrung by labour constraints and high input costs.
A new graphite processing facility and a $200 million transition fund are among measures to entice investment and create jobs in Collie before its power stations close at the end of the decade.
BHP has joined Rio Tinto in committing to assemble some of its iron ore rail cars in Perth, in a move the state government hopes will lead to more substantial manufacturing in future.