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Vale: Fred Verna

Late last year, the pipeline industry lost a legend. Fernando (Fred) Verna sadly passed away on 26 November 2025 after a long struggle with emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis. Read More

STATS delivers challenging UK project

STATS has successfully completed a challenging project involving a hot tap and line stop isolation on a 33bar operating system, allowing for the safe replacement of two 6″ Slam Shut valves while maintaining uninterrupted gas supply at Beeston Above Ground Installation (AGI) near Nottingham, UK. Read More

PNG Expo returns

Returning to Port Moresby on 1–2 July 2026, the PNG Industrial and Mining Resources Exhibition and Conference (PNG Expo) will unveil an expanded conference program focused on key challenges and growth opportunities within Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) mining and resources sector.   Read More
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Mereenie and Palm Valley JVs power ahead

Echelon Resources has announced that the Mereenie and Palm Valley Joint Ventures have reached non-binding, conditional terms with the Northern Territory’s Power and Water Corporation for the sale of gas from the two central Australian fields through to the end of 2034. Read More

Closing the loop: StormFLO and the future of sustainable drainage

The bigger picture: plastic pipes and the circular economy

Not all plastics are created equal. The conversation around plastic often focuses on the disposable, single-use kind, but the picture shifts completely when you look at engineered plastics purpose-built for infrastructure. These plastics are designed for strength, reliability, and longevity. Read More
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WATCH: Austrack Equipment in action

Brisbane-based Austrack Equipment is a major supplier and hire company for heavy plant and machinery across Australia, servicing construction, mining, pipeline, agricultural and infrastructure sectors. Read More

Smarter welding, digitised and documented

In Australia’s infrastructure landscape, polyethylene (PE) pipelines continue to lead the way for critical services like drinking water, gas, and sewerage. But as networks expand and compliance expectations tighten, weld traceability has become just as important as weld quality. Accurate, accessible records of every joint installation are no longer a ‘nice-to-have’, they’re a must-have. Read More

Building better infrastructure through circularity

As Australia accelerates toward its 2035 circular economy goals, one essential infrastructure sector is already demonstrating what circularity in action looks like: plastic pipes. Engineered for long life, durability, repairability, and eventual recyclability, plastic pipe systems show how high-performance products used across water, energy, agriculture, and construction can align with circular principles – not through short-term interventions, but through design choices that reduce resource demand over generations. Read More

Production maintained during challenging valve replacement

STATS Group has successfully completed a challenging hot tap and line stop isolation on a 33bar operating system, allowing for the safe replacement of two 6” Slam Shut valves while maintaining uninterrupted gas supply at Beeston Above Ground Installation (AGI) near Nottingham, England. Read More

Austrack features at the Australian Manufacturing Awards in Sydney

Austrack Equipment is a trusted supplier of quality hire equipment for major civil, pipeline, energy, and infrastructure projects Australia wide. Quality OEM brands like Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi, John Deere and all the other respected yellow iron manufacturers dominate the extensive range of machinery that Austrack has available for its customers. Read More