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BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre for Mining has invented a Dragline Dutymeter, which can help raise the operational capacity of a dragline by up to 25 per cent. It is an early warning system to alert operators in real time to actions, which can rapidly degrade the machine’s reliability.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN smokers have undergone a quantum leap in the past 10 years. From smoking the notorious unfiltered Soviet-era papirossi, they now have a wide choice of international brands, for whom this liberalisation has been commercially significant. Russia remains one of the more appealing markets for tobacco companies, with fewer barriers and, for the time being, a fairly laissez faire approach to advertising, as well as a burgeoning middle class with the disposable incomes to afford premium cigarettes.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed what they say is a cheaper and safer way of producing iron nano-particles crucial for cleaning up contaminated sites, notably those containing waste solvents. The particles chemically modify polluting compounds by removing chlorine atoms, replacing them with hydrogen atoms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A USA-Australia trade deal could be threatened by excluded Australian sugar producers, who have threatened their influence within the Australian senate to stall ratification as their US sugar export quota remains at 87,000 tonnes. Australian Canegrowers president Jim Pedersen said Canberra “has an obligation to let us share in some of the (deal’s) benefits”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NEW volcanic gas and ash detector created by Australian scientists could enable the airport and airline industries to save both money and lives. The ‘Ground-based Infra-Red Detection’ (G-bIRD) system is being developed by Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and the country’s Tenix Defence Electronic Systems division.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVELY gloomy forecast for the future of the European Union (EU) coal industry has been issued by the European Commission, underlining its determination to press for closures of most unprofitable mines to trim Brussels’ and Member States’ state aid budgets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has signed a free trade deal with Australia, paving the way for large-scale exports into the American market of Australian seafood, both farmed and wild. Upon the ratification and coming into force of the agreement, Australian seafood exports, currently worth around A$140 million (US$110 million), “will enter the USA market duty free immediately”, said a note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PHARMACEUTICAL sector is a key element of a free trade agreement recently struck between the USA and Australia, although some onlookers claim Washington failed to achieve many of its aims regarding the industry. Nonetheless, the US Trade Representative’s office lauded the fact that Australia would make product-listing procedures within its pharmaceuticals benefits scheme more transparent, notably through the creation of an independent review process.…