AN opportunity to modify its existing pump technology to meet the growing needs of the coal seam gas sector proved too good an offer to refuse for Airwell Pumps and its managing director, Alan Brown.
THE state government came in for criticism over its handling of the resources boom at a roundtable meeting of rural and regional business owners and executives last week.
COMBINING his skills in professional services with a background in geology has proved to be a good career move for 2010 40under40 winner Grant Ribbink.
WHEN he took over as managing director of Decmil Australia six months ago, Ray Sputore recognised an opportunity to take his 30-year career in a new direction with the growing engineering and construc
PLD Learning Resources founder and managing director Diana Rigg has taken nothing for granted since winning a 40under40 award last year, despite the fast growth in her company’s literacy resources in
Keen demand for commercial space in central Perth is driving a surge in office redesign and fit-out work, attracting new players to the Western Australian market and creating opportunities for establi
Eagle Bay Brewing Co is a new family-run restaurant, winery and brewery business that reflects the ongoing changes in the Dunsborough region. Amy French reports.
AN innovative project is taking shape in Wagin to tackle saline degradation, produce energy from waste products, power a barramundi farm and hopefully attract new businesses to the Wheatbelt.
PAUL Symons could never have predicted the tangent his life would take when he left his job as a high school teacher in 1998 to start Malaga-based company PC Locs.
IMAGINE a building material that could withstand 350 kilometre an hour winds, was fire resistant, stronger but lighter than double brick, and completely recyclable.
IT has taken Edward Khoury 15 years to grow his industrial design business to the size of the one he and his wife Sharon left behind in South Africa when they migrated in the 1980s.
STAY away from sports – that was the advice HydraSafe managing director and founder Wayne Ashdown received from a business associate when he first considered manufacturing an electrolyte replacement drink.
FOUR years after their first conversations about how to revolutionise the bulk scanning and indexing industry, i2 Software directors Quentin Gribble and Andrew Wade can finally say they’re in it for more than just the love of the business.
WITH the state government planning to pour $856 million into its Pilbara Cities program, it seems logical for town planning firms to exploit this opportunity by expanding in the targeted growth centres of Port Hedland and Karratha.
