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2008
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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 State’s 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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