Safety, Payload & Site Compliance Across Victoria & Tasmania

Melbourne Metro and the Port of Melbourne are the commercial and industrial heartland of Victoria. The Port of Melbourne is Australia's largest container and general cargo port, handling more than 3 million TEU per year, with loaders, reach stackers, and forklifts operating in diesel particulate and dust environments that require ISO 23875 BMair cabin air compliance. Loadrite on-board scales support accurate cargo management, stockpile weighing, and Chain of Responsibility compliance on every loaded vehicle leaving the port precinct.

Geelong's industrial corridor supports major waste management, concrete production, and freight logistics operations. Cleanaway's Melbourne operations, including the Dynon Road transfer station (one of Victoria's largest, handling more than 200,000 tonnes annually), require Legal for Trade Loadrite weighing for per-tonne billing under Victoria's landfill levy. Veolia, SUEZ, Bingo Industries, and JJ's Waste also operate transfer stations and processing facilities across Melbourne Metro.

Victoria's regional cities anchor a growing mineral exploration and quarrying industry. Ballarat is home to Boral's Dunnstown Quarry (650,000 tonnes per year of high-grade basalt, supplying Melbourne Metro, Central and Western Victoria), and Southern Cross Gold's Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Project at Manton, approximately 80 kilometres north of Melbourne, is one of the highest-grade emerging gold-antimony discoveries in Australia. Mandalay Resources operates the Costerfield gold-antimony mine near Heathcote. The Nagambie Mine antimony-gold project (Nagambie Resources) and the Apollo Gold-Antimony Project (Adelong Gold, south of Eildon) are among a cohort of new critical minerals operations entering the Victorian permit pipeline.

Bendigo was historically one of the world's most productive goldfields and retains active exploration activity including Agnico Eagle's Fosterville operation (the Fosterville tenement was sold December 2025 but remains one of Victoria's signature gold assets) and S2 Resources' Yeungroon and Darlington gold projects. The Creswick Gold Project, north-west of Ballarat, entered a joint venture agreement in September 2025.

Peninsula Quarries on the Mornington Peninsula supplies basalt, clay, and rock resources to Level Crossing Removal Program, Major Roads Projects Victoria, and Victorian School Building Authority projects.

Victoria's Big Build is the largest infrastructure program in Australian history at $208 billion in capital projects. SmartTech Melbourne is positioned at the centre of this pipeline, servicing the earthmoving fleets, spoil handling operations, and on-site weighing requirements across all active corridors.

Metro Tunnel: Opened 30 November 2025, five new underground stations (Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall, Anzac) connecting the Sunbury Line with the Cranbourne/Pakenham Line.

West Gate Tunnel: Opened 14 December 2025 at a final cost of $10.2 billion, providing the first alternative river crossing to the West Gate Bridge. Includes a direct ramp connection to the Port of Melbourne freight precinct, making it a critical Chain of Responsibility corridor.

North East Link: Australia's biggest road project, currently under construction. 6.5 kilometre twin tunnels connecting the Eastern Freeway to the Greensborough Bypass. Crews are placing Super T-beams for the newly aligned Bulleen Road.

Suburban Rail Loop East: tunnelling preparation ongoing, with construction sites active across Box Hill, Burwood, Glen Waverley, and Clayton. Tunnelling scheduled to commence 2026.

Gippsland Critical Minerals: The Fingerboards Critical Minerals Project (VHM Ltd), located near Bairnsdale in East Gippsland, holds Major Project Status and targets ilmenite, zircon, monazite, and rare earth elements. Community reference group sessions were active through 2025. Bairnsdale Quarries supplies decorative river pebbles, road base, and crusher dust for Melbourne Metro and Gippsland markets.

Donald Mineral Sands: Astron Corporation's Donald Mineral Sands Project near Donald in north-west Victoria received Resources Victoria work plan approval in mid-2025, enabling construction of one of Australia's most significant critical mineral operations. The project will mine 7.5 million tonnes per year over 19 years, targeting ilmenite, monazite, rare earth elements (REE), rutile, and zircon — all essential for batteries, wind turbine magnets, and clean energy infrastructure. This is a key future SmartTech operation as it ramps toward production.

Mallee and Murray region: The Wimmera and Mallee regions produce wheat, barley, canola, chickpeas, and pulse crops at significant scale. GrainCorp and CBH receival facilities across Horsham, Donald, Warracknabeal, and Sea Lake require Loadrite Legal for Trade loader weighing for truck compliance and grain billing. Mallee Quarries operates across the region supplying road-making materials for rural infrastructure.

Tasmania's mineral and resource sector accounts for more than 50 per cent of the state's mercantile exports, and its exploration investment hit a record $13 million in the September 2025 quarter, a 51 per cent increase year-on-year as record gold, copper, and silver prices drove a wave of new activity across the island.

MMG Rosebery: China's MMG operates the Rosebery mine, a polymetallic underground operation producing zinc, lead, gold, copper, and silver from one of Australia's most geologically complex deposits on Tasmania's west coast.

Grange Resources Savage River: Australia's longest-running magnetite mine, exporting high-grade iron ore pellets from Port Latta for more than 60 years. Grange Resources has operated Savage River for decades.

Tasmania's four principal ports, Port of Burnie, Port of Devonport, Port of Hobart, and Port of Bell Bay: handle mineral concentrates, pellets, timber, and general cargo. Port operations at each facility require Loadrite weighing systems for cargo accuracy and Chain of Responsibility compliance on loaded vehicles.

Waste Management: Victoria's waste industry is undergoing major investment driven by the state's landfill levy and diversion targets. Cleanaway's Melbourne Energy and Resource Centre (MERC) at Wollert received a cap licence from Recycling Victoria in August 2025 to process up to 760,000 tonnes of residual waste per year, doubled from the original 380,000 tonne proposal. Cleanaway also took over the City of Melbourne residential waste collection contract from Citywide from 1 July 2025, with a $110 million acquisition that includes the Dynon Road transfer station and a $35 million upgrade commitment. Veolia, SUEZ, Bingo Industries, and JJ's Waste all operate Melbourne Metro transfer stations requiring Legal for Trade Loadrite weighing for per-tonne billing and Victorian landfill levy compliance.

Agriculture: The Wimmera-Mallee region is one of Australia's highest-volume dryland cropping zones, producing wheat, barley, canola, and pulses across millions of hectares. GrainCorp receival and storage facilities at Horsham, Minyip, Warracknabeal, and across the Mallee require Loadrite Legal for Trade loader scales for accurate grain intake billing and Chain of Responsibility compliance on outbound trucks. Gippsland's dairy corridor, one of Australia's most productive, generates ongoing feed, lime, and compost logistics requirements. SKF Lincoln automated lubrication extends equipment service life on harvesting machinery and loaders operating in demanding seasonal conditions.