Welcome to the August Newsletter. I am particularly pleased to advise that CMEIG will be hosting a business lunch at the Queensland Cricketers Club on Wednesday the 21st September with our guest presenter being The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP, Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Olympics. This is not [...]
CMEIG were pleased to be a guest at the Australian Industry Group webinar on `The Road to Zero Emissions in Transport’. Whilst the content was ‘on-road’ based, the challenges and opportunities mirror those of off-road earthmoving equipment. Presenters included Toyota, Toll Holdings and Ampol. Takeaways included: That the Internal Combustion [...]
Standards Australia recently acknowledged Earthmoving Equipment Committee, ME-063, with the Outstanding Committee Award for 2022. CMEIG CEO, David Birrell, commented that two years ago industry considered that more could be done to expedite the development and international alignment of Australian earthmoving equipment standards to keep pace with emerging developments in [...]
Skills shortages are a challenge confronting the Australian economy. This extends beyond the shortfall of available employees to also having necessary industry skills in the immediate term and having a pathway to develop skills required to service and support emerging technologies in our industry. Three aspects of this are: Skills [...]