Combilift managing director Martin McVicar (left) receiving the FLTA design award.

Australian companies for tsunami effort
CANBERRA, Australia
Austrade will conduct five tsunami reconstruction workshops in April to inform Australian companies on reconstruction planning, funds disbursement, contract tendering arrangements and the agencies taking lead roles in projects.

Tsunami reconstruction task force leader Mike Moignard said:
"Austrade is particularly encouraging attendance at the workshops by Australian companies that have experience supplying products, services and expertise in infrastructure, housing, construction, water sanitation, education, health, agriculture, fisheries, tourism, power, environment and social welfare sectors."

For more information, go to: http://www.austrade.gov.au/tsunamireconstruction or call: +61-13 28 78.

Combilift wins design award
MONAGHAN, Ireland
Combilift Ltd's design team has won the Fork Lift Truck Association's design achievement award at the annual awards for excellence.

Combilift said the award was a testimony to the achievement of pioneers Martin McVicar and Robert Moffett, who created the Combilift four-directional forklift truck.

McVicar, who was named Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year in 2001, said he was delighted the forklift industry had recognised the benefits of the Combilift solution, which initially challenged conventional design theory.