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AEC'S GREENER, GAS-FUELLED STRATEGY
SmartCompany 4 July 2008
An early proponent of getting commercial vehicles
running on natural gas has made Advanced Engine Components an innovator whose time has come.
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MARKET STILL HOLDS VALUE PROPOSITIONS
WA Business News 3 April 2008
Following on from our theme of watching
on-market director buying, it is pleasing to note that the managing director and two other directors of local
diesel to gas conversion company, Advanced Engine Components Ltd, have been wading into the market to pick up
some cheap stock during the recent price weakness.
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2007
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2007 WA ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AWARDS
West Australian 24 September 2007
Advanced Engine Components Limited is a Category
Winner in the Western Australian Engineering Excellence Awards.
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AEC TARGETS LNG POWER
West Australian 7 July 2007
Advanced Engine Components is hoping to
grab a slice of the emerging market for heavy-duty vehicles powered by liquified natural gas in Australia.
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GREEN, GREEN GAS
The Bulletin 3 April 2007
Driving profits for this
Chinese-Australian battler is an electronic system for cleaning up diesel truck engines.
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GREEN STRATEGY REAPS REWARD
Australian Financial Review 13 February 2007
Over the past few months, a
key feature of companies with a market capitalisation of less that $150 million
has been the acceleration of engine component and car companies showing an
awareness of climate change, so investors need to stay tuned to the developments.
ON A NATURAL HIGH
Sunday Times 11 February 2007
For one WA company, the road to
riches is in China - and it is bumper to bumper with diesel-guzzling buses and trucks.
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BEST WA PERFORMERS FOR 2007
West Australian 1 January 2007
Peter Strachan from StockAnalysis
has selected Advanced Engine Components as one of his stock picks for 2007.
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2006
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PERTH ENGINE MAKER NOW COOKING WITH GAS
The Age 11 December 2006
"Common sense in action" is one way to
describe the activities of Advanced Engine Components. The Perth-based company has world-class technology
that allows buses and trucks — and potentially cars — to run on natural gas.
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CAREER BUS TO CHINA
BRW 19-25 October 2006
One small Australian company has
re-invented itself and is set to make big inroads into the Chinese fuel industry.
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NATURAL GAS FIRES UP AS NEW FUEL
WA Business News 5 October 2006
The role of natural gas as
a viable alternative to diesel in the heavy-duty vehicles market has been highlighted during
the past week with the planned construction of an LNG plant and a WA company announcing a deal
to provide its natural gas conversion kits to the Bangladesh market.
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ADVANCED ENGINE IN $8M BANGLADESH GAS VENTURE
West Australian 30 September 2006
Perth-based Advanced Engine
Components has continued its strong corporate turnaround, striking a deal that is expected to
lead to sales of more than $8 million a year to Bangladesh of its natural gas engine conversion
kits.
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JUNIOR EYES MAIDEN PROFIT ON CHINA DEAL
West
Australian 14 July 2006
Engine technology company Advanced
Engine Components has forecast a maiden profit for the current financial year after starting commercial
sales of its natural gas engine conversion kits to its second big Chinese customer.
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ADVANCED ENGINE MOVES INTO CHINA
WA
Business News 2 May 2006
Malaga-based Advanced Engine Components Ltd
has announced its first commercial sales to First Auto Works in China with an order for more than $400,000.
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AEC LEADS THE NATURAL GAS TECHNOLOGY CHARGE
WA
Business News 30 March 2006
As the
debate continues over the feasibility of implementing alternative transport
fuels, Malaga-based Advanced Engine Components Ltd is making an environmental
and cost effective difference through its natural gas engines.
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AEC FINDS INDIA PARTNER
Financial
Review 23 February 2006
Advanced
Engine Components, a developer of components that allow engines to run
on natural gas, has found a joint venture partner in India after years
of trying.
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2005
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AEC LTD - IS NATURAL A WAY TO GO?
Oriental
Post 23 December 2005
With air quality
issues constantly at the forefront of Chinese government concern, particularly
in the more industrialised provinces, the use of natural gas as an additional
fuel source is at a record high.
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CHINA DEAL FOR AEC
The
West Australian 26 October 2005
Advanced Engine
Components has locked in its first order to deliver 20 of its natural gas
conversion kits to First Auto Works, one of China's biggest vehicle
manufacturers.
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ADVANCED GAS DEAL
WA
Business News 22 September 2005
Advanced Engine
Components has announced the signing of an alliance agreement with Motive Energy,
a supplier of fleet services for natural gas fuelled vehicles.
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AEC SIGNS TECHNICAL AGREEMENT
WA
Business News 11 August 2005
Engine developer
Advanced Engine Components' Beijing-based division in China has signed a technical
agreement with FAW Dalian Diesel Engine Company to develop an engine for use in
small buses and light-duty trucks.
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ADVANCED TECHNICAL
DEAL
Financial
Review 4 August 2005
Advanced Engine Components
said its Beijing-based business had signed a technical agreement with Dalian, the diesel-engine
division of China's largest vehicle manufacturer, First Auto Works.
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AEC WANTS ASIA LINK FOR GAS KITS
The
West Australian 25 July 2005
Advanced Engine
Components is looking to set up a strategic marketing alliance in South-East Asia
as it continues its aggressive push to take advantage of the increasing global use
of natural gas-powered vehicles.
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AEC SETTLES DISPUTES,
PLANS CONSORTIUM
WA
Business News 14 July 2005
Advanced Engine Components
has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a patent dispute with Gas Torque Engines, and in so doing
has disclosed plans to form an Australian industry consortium to supply the natural gas vehicle
market.
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SALES
WA
Business News 7 July 2005
Has received its
first sales order from the Weifang Weichai Peterson Gas Engine Co. Ltd joint venture.
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AN ACE IN THE PACK
Daily
Telegraph 2 July 2005
Advanced Engine Components
is following Australia's illustrious tradition of start-up engine makers.
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DAVID WANG
The
West Australian 25 June 2005
David Wang has
joined Advanced Engine Components as general manager of its operations
in China.
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AEC COMPLETES $3.5M CAPITAL RAISING
WA
Business News 14 April 2005
Perth-Based
Advanced Engine Corporation has closed its 17.5 million share prospectus
offer with subscriptions exceeding the required $3.5 million capital raising.
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NEW TEL VICTIM
TARGETS RELISTING
The
West Australian 7 April 2005
Technology company
Advanced Engine Components is expected to relist next Friday, 2 1/2 years
after being caught up in the collapse of its former parent company, Peter
Malone's junior telco New Tel.
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SMES
FINDING CHINA A CHALLENGE
WA
Business News 3 February 2005
China may be
the top trade destination for many major Western Australian businesses
but securing a foothold in the rapidly expanding market is not always
easy for smaller operators.
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READER
RESPONSE - CHINA SYNDROME
WA
Business News 20 January 2005
Your correspondent
Tim Treadgold has put forward some interesting hypotheses to explain the
delay in getting AEC's prospectus over the line (Briefcase, WA Business
News, January 13). However he missed
the real one, which I call the 'China Syndrome'.
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2004
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ENGINE
FIRM REVS UP CHINA HOPES
Sunday
Times 28 November 2004
Advanced Engine
Components is motoring along in its bid to refloat on the Australian Stock
Exchange and push into China.
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BEIJING
TO BREATHE LIFE INTO AEC
The
Australian 16 August 2004
Advanced Engine
Components is emerging from the rubble of New Tel with a plan to lift
the suspension imposed on its shares when the telecommunications group
collapsed in late 2002.
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ENGINE COMPANY
PLANS TO RELIST AFTER REVAMP
The
West Australian 16 August 2004
After two years
in limbo, technology company Advanced Engine Components is finalising
plans to rejoin the trading boards after a major $10 million corporate
restructuring.
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2003
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TAIWANESE
MAKE BID FOR NEW TEL AUTOMOTIVE ARM
The
West Australian 15 January 2003
One of Taiwan's
biggest conglomerates, Koo's Group, is poised to take charge of the automotive
spin-off of failed telco New Tel, Advanced Engine Components, pending
shareholder approval of a proposed $9 million cash injection.
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2002
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AEC
LEAPS ON EUROPE BUSES DEAL
The
West Australian 20 June 2002
Shares in Perth
engine technology group Advanced Engine Components rocketed more than
50 per cent yesterday on news of a $12 million deal with Europe's number
two bus manufacturer to enable diesel buses to run on compressed natural
gas.
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EUROPEAN
BUS DEAL BOOSTS PERTH FIRM
The
Melbourne Age 20 June 2002
Shares
in Advanced Engine Components surged yesterday after the company won its
biggest international contract with a deal to supply fuel injection equipment
to Europe's second-largest bus maker, Irisbus.
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ADVANCED
ENGINE DEAL
Sydney Morning Herald
20 June 2002
Advanced
Engine Components has won a $12 million deal to supply a multi-point sequential
gas system to Irisbus France. Irisbus is a joint venture company formed
by engine makers Renault and Italy's Iveco to build and market buses.
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2001
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AEC
BEATS WORLD EMISSIONS STANDARDS
NGV News September 2001
ANGVC member Advanced Engine Components (AEC) has achieved Euro IV emissions
standards on Mercedes M447G bus engines in tests conducted by the Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research (EMPA).
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NATURAL
GAS ENGINES "EXCEED EXPECTATIONS"
NGV Worldwide August 2001
New natural gas engines that are to be trailed in the Transperth bus fleet
in Western Australia have been tested in Europe, recording exhaust emissions
that already meet European environmental standards that won't be introduced
for another five years.
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2000
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GREENHOUSE
PROJECTS WILL CLEAR THE AIR
The Australian Financial Review 3
November 2000
The Australian Greenhouse Office is forging ahead with its brief for a
clean Australia by encouraging two companies to further develop their
technology to reduce greenhouse emissions.
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BUS
TRIAL AIMS TO CUT POLLUTION
The West Australian 26 October 2000
Technology developed by an Osborne Park engineering company is being used
to convert the States 18-month-year-old diesel fleet as part of
a $2.5 million Federal Government plan to slash greenhouse gases from
public transport in WA.
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GAS
CONVERSION FOR BUS FLEET
The West Australian 26 October 2000
The State's 18-month-old diesel Mercedes bus fleet will test a new advanced
natural gas conversion system.
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