LiuGong has broken ground on its Indonesia Green Smart Industrial Park at the Karawang Artha Industrial Hill Industrial Estate in West Java, billed as the country’s first all‑electric heavy equipment factory. The plant will focus on battery-electric construction and mining machinery, positioning production close to Indonesia’s nickel and battery supply chain and major coal and mineral operations. For mine operators, local assembly of electric excavators, loaders and haul units should cut import lead times and support regional trials of high‑capacity battery systems in humid, high‑temperature conditions.

Acquire Technology Solutions has released an integration linking Blackfox drilling management with GIM Suite, enabling direct transfer of drillhole data between the two platforms. Hole collar details and related drilling information now flow automatically rather than via manual imports, reducing transcription errors and version conflicts in exploration databases. For geologists and drill planners, this should shorten drill programme initialisation times and tighten QA/QC on collar coordinates, depths and metadata across planning, execution and geological modelling workflows.

Pilbara Ports handled a record 804.1 million tonnes of trade in the 2025–26 financial year across Ashburton, Dampier, Port Hedland and Varanus Island, passing the 800‑million‑tonne mark for the first time and retaining its status as the world’s largest bulk export port. Iron ore shipments from the Pilbara dominated volumes, confirming sustained high utilisation of deep‑water berths, shiploaders and channel capacity. The scale signals ongoing demand for high‑throughput stockyard management, dredging, and rail‑to‑port interface reliability across the network.