Aquarius Platinum Limited, which will soon commission its Kroondal platinum project near Rustenburg in South Africa, is undergoing a major corporate and domicile restructuring.
PERTH-based CISA Technologies has formed an alliance with international Y2K specialist, The Software Revo-lution Inc.TSRI has been retained by the Boeing company in the US to ensure it is Y2K compliant before 1 January 2000.
THE ERG Motorola Alliance has won the contract to install and manage a smart card fare collection system in Rome’s Metrebus system for nine years, with an additional five year option.
The Federal Government must establish a GST education office for small business – independent of the tax office – to ensure smooth implementation of the GST.
WHILE the design of the new Fremantle Maritime Museum has been lauded by architects, keeping its massive ocean-facing windows clean could pose a problem.
THE Department of Productivity and Labour Relations and the Security Agents Institute have joined forces to raise awareness of employment obligations within Perth’s security industry.
Kanowna Lights NL, which has been exploring for base metals at its Pin-nacles nickel project 130 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, is on the threshold of developing a gold project.
Hydrocarbon producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd has invested $8 million to support a research program developing electricity generation technology based on ceramic or solid oxide fuel cells.
On the national playing field, WA is ‘B’ team; certainly in the minds of most ‘eastern-staters’. The only trouble is, most Western Australians don’t quite see the world that way.
Is this the golden age for local companies to go global? The landscape of Western Australian business is altered forever. We are less isolated and more open to global threats and opportunities.
PERTH-based Reefton Mining NL, which recently picked up some hot diamond prospective property through a joint venture in Namibia, Southern Africa, has considerably expanded its diamond interests.
WA BUSINESSES should gear up to trade in the online economy or risk being marginalised by the Internet business boom, says Works and Services Minister Mike Board.
Consolidated Minerals Limited has relisted on the Australian bourse, more than twenty months after its predecessor, Valiant Consolidated Limit-ed, was suspended from trading.
MORE than 57 per cent of employees would prefer to be working from home and 70.7 per cent said they would be as productive as if they were at ‘work’ a Morgan & Banks survey has found.
A recent sharp rise in cobalt prices – benefiting Western Australian nickel producers with cobalt credits – has been attrib-uted to lower production in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
