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Victorian spray equipment manufacturer Goldacres has celebrated its 40th anniversary with an expo at its Ballarat factory – a significant event to mark the success of an Australian family company beating the imports and helping farmers do their job more efficiently with equipment noted for its reliability, quality and innovation. In 1996 Cummins became involved in the development of Goldacres’ first self-propelled Crop Cruiser sprayer that was eventually unveiled in 1999 sporting a Cummins 5.9-litre 6BTA engine producing 177 hp.

When Rio Tinto looked to improve life-to-overhaul of the Cummins QSK60 engine powering its Komatsu WA1200-6 loaders, oil filtration efficiency emerged as the key. Rio Tinto has nine 220-tonne, 1892 hp WA1200-6 loaders operating in its vast iron ore operations in the Pilbara, Western Australia. A world-first WA1200-6 is working at the Mesa J mine in Rio Tinto’s Robe Valley Operations – the first equipped with an engine-mounted Cummins Eliminator oil filtration system that replaced the engine’s standard remote mounted four spin-on filters.