Henderson-based Matrix Composites and Engineering will collaborate with Fortescue Future Industries to develop equipment and materials technologies to support the business' green hydrogen plans.
Fortescue Future Industries has lodged environmental documents for a renewable energy project near Ashburton that would be a multi-billion dollar development to rival the capacity of the state's entire South West grid.
Western Force has inked its seventh partnership in recent months, with tyre manufacturer Goodyear Australia to sponsor the men's team in the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season.
Julian Grill has hailed Andrew Forrest as a nation builder in his new book, which provides an account of his contentious lobbying activities on behalf of Fortescue Metals Group in the 2000s.
The state government has managed to strike a deal that promises to satisfy each of the mining giants battling for a larger slice of the port of Port Hedland.
Fortescue chief executive Elizabeth Gaines said the company was continuing to assess the impact of uncertainty clouding WA's border reopening, on the back of a solid quarterly production update.
Fortescue Metals Group will acquire a UK-based engineering firm connected to late F1 team owner Frank Williams in a bid to bring race-bred battery technology to its iron ore fleet.
Fortescue Metals Group has continued to surprise the market with its ambitious plans, striking an agreement with Sinosteel to evaluate a magnetite mine in the Mid West and a port at Oakajee.
The Australian Hydrogen Conference will come to Perth in November 2022, with hydrogen minister Alannah MacTiernan flagging the state's significant potential in the budding industry.
Rio Tinto has joined fellow Pilbara miners Fortescue Metals Group and Roy Hill Holdings in acquiring battery-electric locomotives as part of plans to curb carbon emissions.
Big business and trade union support helped fill Labor's coffers in the year to June, with the party's $12.7 million haul outstripping the combined earnings of the coalition parties.
Fortescue Metals Group has pledged $750,000 to provide training, professional development and support for telephone crisis supporters under a three-year partnership with Lifeline WA.
GenusPlus Group has secured more work on Fortescue's $US250 million transmission project, having been selected to build a 98-kilometre powerline for the iron ore miner.
Andrew Forrest may have high hopes for green hydrogen, but plans revealed by Fortescue today to develop the Belinga project in West Africa indicate iron ore pursuits show no sign of slowing.
Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Elizabeth Gaines will step away from her role as the iron ore miner makes the transition to a green energy and resources group.
Iron ore miners Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group have announced new measures to reduce their environmental impact, including ‘greener' locomotives.
Fortescue Metals Group will supply two helicopters to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of WA in a bid to speed up hospital-to-hospital transfers across Western Australia.
Fortescue Metals shares had their biggest gain of the year but the Australian market slumped on concerns of how US authorities will respond to the biggest rise in inflation in 31 years.
Export revenue has become increasingly concentrated on iron ore but WA has still benefitted, while moves to net zero now dominate thinking. Click for the list of WA's biggest exporters.
Fortescue will unveil a potential aviation fuel supply deal within days, as chair Andrew Forrest defended his ambitious green hydrogen plans at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.
Fortescue Future Industries has acquired the commercial assets of US-based start up Xergy for an undisclosed amount to form a new hydrogen technology development entity.
Australia's fourth largest iron ore producer secured record shipments during the first quarter of the financial year but weaker iron ore prices took a toll on average revenues.
The value of state government contracts awarded to Aboriginal businesses has fallen by 21 per cent over the past year though the number of contracts has risen.
Rio Tinto's iron ore chief executive has told a parliamentary inquiry into sexual harassment in the mining industry he is “sickened” by recent events, as FMG unveiled its new alcohol policy.