QREX Overview
Rockhampton City Council, Queensland Resources Council, Rockhampton Tourist & Business Information, and Central Queensland University have joined together to stage the Queensland Resources Expo (QREX) in Rockhampton on 20 - 23 July 2009.
The expo will feature a range of integrated activities relating to mining, minerals processing and energy generation industries including:
- A one day international conference
- An Educate and Inspire centre involving companies and education providers involved in the resources industry, and which will include the Australian Resources Careers Mart
- Industry tours to sites such as Bowen Basin mines, power plants, minerals processing plants in Rockhampton and Gladstone, and manufacturing and service plants in both cities
- Seminars, workshops and training for industry participants
- Resources' familiarisation activities for primary, secondary and tertiary students and women
- Gala industry dinner
- Structured networking for resource operators and those involved in the supply chain
- Regional celebration and social activities
QREX will also include a trade expo which is being organised by Reed Exhibitions and will include more than 300 businesses providing goods and services to the Queensland resource industries.
The expo will provide a forum at which potential users of Queensland's resources services can make contact with potential resource suppliers and service providers.
It will also include an international reception centre, specifically to facilitate trade in commodities in addition to services tailored to the resource industries.
Conference topics and tours will focus on industry challenges, including the implementation of clean coal technologies, both in Australia and possibly in those countries with which we trade in resources and their supporting technologies.
The Educate and Inspire Centre will help provide information to students and other key stakeholders about the ways in which the resource industries operate to encourage them to consider a career in the resource industries.
The centre will also develop and generate a greater understanding of the role played by resource industries among Australians generally.
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