Kador: Press Releases
Kador Apprentice of the Year 2010
Each December, Kador Manufacturing director, Don Vogel, gives an award to the Kador Apprentice of the Year. This year, the award went to Luke Alvea, who won a jacket from Kador, a welding...
Kador Delivers Tailgates for Hitachi EH4500 Dump Bodies
Kador has recently delivered a tailgate for an Hitachi EH4500 dump body, to be trialed on a Hunter Valley coal mine. Designed by CMP engineers, the tailgate is expected to be the first of...
Kador Partners with United Industries
Kador has recently reached an agreement with United Industries of Perth WA, for United to market and manufacture Kador's range of mine water tankers, rear dump bodies and service modules in...
Qld Mines Inspectorate Comments on Problems Caused by Haul Road Overwatering
Twice last year, Qld chief inspector of coal mines has commented on safety problems caused by excessive watering of mine haul roads. In the Safety Bulletin No 94, issued on 22 January 2010,...
Kador Continues to Supply Carbon Energy Project
Over recent months, Kador has played a key role in the development of Carbon Energy's 5MW underground coal gasification (UCG) power station project at Bloodwood Creek (approximately 50km west...
Kador Fits Further 'Enviro-Spray' Options to Water Tanks
Since the start of 2010, Kador has received orders for 15 new water tankers, in sizes from 45KL to 110KL, to be fitted onto Cat trucks. Ten of the 15 tankers will be fitted with the...
Kador Precision Fabrication for Rio Tinto Aluminium Operations
Kador recently delivered the last of 60 pile splints being manufactured to strengthen a rail bridge over the Mission river near Weipa on Cape York in Far North Queensland. The pile...
Kador Increases Lifting Capacity
November sees the installation of two new 35t overhead cranes in the heavy fabrication bay of Kador's Sherwood workshop, replacing two old 25t cranes. This investment demonstrates...
Kador Continues Lean Initiatives
Kador Engineering has enrolled more than 30 staff in a competitive manufacturing course. The project will run for about 15 months and will be based around its core manufacturing processes. ...
Kador Delivers Dragline Tee Section Upgrade
Kador's Carole Park workshop recently delivered a new tee section for a Bucyrus 8200 dragline upgrade. The contract was to fabricate, trial-assemble, weld, heat-treat and paint the eight...
Kador Receives Order to Design and Manufacture Coal Dump Bodies for Clermont
Kador has received an order for the design and manufacture of seven dump bodies for the Komatsu 830E trucks at the Clermont Mine in central Queensland. These bodies will each carry 220m³...
Kador Helps Put a Lid on Municipal Landfill Problems
Kador is helping municipal landfill operators put a lid on their costs and environmental problems through the manufacture of WasteWell Environmental's Landfill Lid. WasteWell have designed...
Kador Implements 5S Housekeeping System
Kador, with the help of Brisbane-based consultancy QMI Solutions, recently introduced the 5S Housekeeping System across its three workshops. The 5S system is a structured, systematised...
Kador's Completion of SEBBA Body Fabrications
Kador recently delivered the first of a quantity of dump bodies being manufactured for SEBBA International. SEBBA is the product design and development arm of Queensland-based Swift Group...
Kador’s Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Systems Accredited
Kador's integrated management system was recently audited by SAI Global as complying with ISO 14001:2004 (environmental management systems) and OHSAS 18001:2007 (occupational health and...
Kador Plays Major Role in Manufacture of New Salt Harvesters for Shark Bay
Kador has played a major role in the manufacture of two new salt harvesters for use at Shark Bay and Onslow in Western Australia. Kador's experience in the manufacture of complex...
Kador Converts Norwich Park Mine's Coal Haulers to Water Spray Rigs
Kador is giving a new lease of life to two old 220t belly dump coal haulers by converting them into 190kl water spray rigs. The haulers, which are each over 15-years-old, and at the end of...
Kador Performs Dragline Boom Repairs
One of five draglines at a mine near Blackwater in central Queensland was undergoing routine maintenance in early December when a boom fell 30m from a crane. Kador were asked to assist in...
SAI Global Accredits Kador's Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Systems
Kador's integrated management system was recently audited and certified by SAI Global as complying with ISO 14001:2004 (environmental management systems) and AS/NZS 4801:2001 (occupational...
Kador Completes Hydrocyclone Battery for Rio Tinto
In December, Kador completed the first of three hydrocyclone batteries for Rio Tinto Aluminium’s $1.8 billion Yarwun Stage 2 alumina refinery expansion project near Gladstone. The project...
Kador Delivers 100t Ammonia-Storage Vessel
Kador recently completed the delivery of a 100t capacity ammonia-storage vessel to be installed as part of an ammonium nitrate plant upgrade, in central Queensland. Kador’s contract included...
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