In industrial workplaces, head injuries are a common cause of accidents, making protective headgear essential. Fortunately, 3M offers a wide range of products designed to improve safety on the job and reduce the risk of head injuries. Head injuries can occur in a variety of ways,...
As a valuable commodity, the sugar industry generates around $4 billion for the Australian economy every year. Since the first arrival of the dense fibre and sucrose-rich plant to Australia, sugar cane fields have expanded across the eastern coastline, particularly well-suited to the tropical conditions of Northern New South Wales and Queensland. Referred to in the sugar business as ‘crushing season,’ the sugar cane...
Epirez® Chockfast® Red and Chockfast® Orange compounds from ITW Polymers and Fluids have been meeting the engineers’ needs for equality epoxy grouting compounds for years. BSC Product Manager for Adhesives and Sealants Michael Rowe and ITW Polymers and Fluids Business Development Manager Rick Williamson discuss the reasoning behind the products’ success, recounting examples...
With over a hundred years’ history in brickmaking, Austral Bricks offers a wide range of creative designs for not just bricks, but also precast pavements, stonework and more. Robert Prasloski, Maintenance Manager for Austral Bricks’ Golden Grove plant talks about what goes into making top quality bricks, including how he maintains...
As BSC engineers studied the root cause of frequent bearing failures for a building waste recycling company, they discovered the problem was a result of silica-rich dust penetrating the bearings. The issue was resolved by designing custom housings, equipped with Alemlube’s automatic lubrication systems (ALS) to keep the...
The cost of energy in manufacturing building materials is a major contributor to the overall cost of the product. Steve Hittmann, National Product Manager at BSC, says upgrading from wrapped belts to raw edge cogged belts is a low-cost option to achieve higher energy efficiencies in...
Pferd in German means ‘horse’ and the namesake German company that started from humble beginnings around 200 years ago by producing files for trimming horse hooves, has over the years grown to become a global brand in industrial abrasives. Pferd has been present in Australia for...
