Civmec has secured three maintenance and capital works contracts worth $130 million with mining majors Rio Tinto and BHP, taking its total order book to more than $1 billion.
Adbri has highlighted the importance of domestic manufacturing as it commenced a major upgrade of its Cockburn Cement operations and evaluates regional investments.
Shares in FYI Resources have fallen sharply for the second day running after the Perth company announced details of a $US250 million joint venture with Alcoa of Australia.
Rio Tinto is planning to purchase some of its iron ore rail cars from local suppliers, in what would be a small but notable boost for WA manufacturing.
The critical minerals sector will become the latest to receive a special concessional loan deal from the federal government, with $2 billion on the line.
NRW Holdings’ Primero Group has been contracted to build a lithium processing plant in the Northern Territory and a vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in Western Australia.
The state government must cut environmental approval times and rethink its new onshore export ban to make Mark McGowan’s gas-powered manufacturing plans a reality, a report shows.
Austal suffered a sharp drop in revenue and underlying earnings in the year to June, on the back of a strengthening Australian dollar, COVID-19 and decreasing support work in the US.
