Sales & Support - Australia: 1300 286 646 | New Zealand: 0800 286 646

Top Header Social Icons

Quick Links

  1. Home
  2. Newsroom
 Print
Share page with AddThis
Subscribe to News

Newsroom

The newsroom is your source for the latest Cummins South Pacific news. Updated on a weekly basis, you'll find news, newsletters, case studies and more. Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered to your email inbox.

 

Cummins QSK95 Scales New Heights

Publish date: 10/24/2018
Like the famous mountain in Tanzania, Africa, the Australian-built Kilimanjaro family of fast passenger ferries is reaching great heights. As the 3,600 hp Cummins engines are lowered into the catamaran’s aluminium hull, Toby Richardson and Ron Devine nod their approval – a defining moment in the construction of Kilimanjaro VII, the first fast passenger ferry in the world specified with Cummins QSK95 engines. This is the seventh Kilimanjaro fast ferry with Cummins propulsion power that will emerge from Richardson Devine Marine (RDM), the world-renowned Australian shipbuilder based in Hobart, Tasmania.
Read more »

Advantage to Rio Tinto as 50th Cummins QSK60 delivered

Publish date: 10/24/2018
The project to supply Rio Tinto with more than 230 remanufactured Cummins QSK60 truck engines for its massive iron ore operations in Australia is well underway, with the 50th power module recently delivered to the mining giant. Rio Tinto is upgrading its Komatsu 830E and 930E haul truck fleet in the Pilbara iron ore region in Western Australia with the latest technology QSK60 engines which are being supplied by the Cummins Master Rebuild Centre in Perth.
Read more »

Going nuts about almonds

Publish date: 08/01/2018

Cummins power is behind an impressive irrigation system at a new almond orchard development in the NSW Riverina. The big money momentum fueling almond orchard expansion in Australia shows little sign of slowing. Australia is the second largest producer of almonds in the world, with 10 million plus irrigated almond trees in the Murray Darling Basin and a continuing dramatic increase in greenfield developments in Victoria, NSW and South Australia. Already Australian production exceeds 82,000 tonnes worth around $600 million a year, about 65 per cent of it exported.

Read more »

The little engine that could

Publish date: 07/20/2018

Fuel-sipping Cummins is a big performer at leading merino stud. Cummins’ smallest diesel engine, the QSF2.8, is delivering big cost efficiencies for Paraway Pastoral Co at its iconic Pooginook property in the NSW Riverina region. One of Australia’s leading merino studs, Pooginook produces more than 1200 merino rams annually. The property comprises 19,656 hectares (48,570 acres) of native and irrigated grazing land and is one of 23 pastoral enterprises operated by Paraway in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.

Read more »

Swinging from the treetops

Publish date: 07/20/2018

Cummins QSL9 engines are assisting in the successful yields at one of Australia’s largest olive groves. Treetops Plantation near Goolgowi in the fertile NSW Riverina region is one of the single largest table olive groves in Australia. In 2018, around three million kilograms have been harvested from the grove which has over 100,000 olive trees. Part of a boutique industry, Treetops Plantation is a ‘tree to table’ producer, claiming: “We grow and process our olives locally, naturally without chemicals and with full traceability.”

Read more »