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Cougar Automation is a leading System Integrator providing automation and control systems to industry, manufacturing and process plants (PLC, SCADA & MES). In addition to project services, Cougar Automation also has a dedicated 24/7 support operation to help you keep your plant running day and night, every day of the year. Everything we do at Cougar Automation is based about delivering fantastic service to each and every one of our customers. That is why we have set our people free to get on and deliver the job. That is why we only employ people who are passionate about delivering a great service. And that is why we survey all of our customers on every project to check how we did and what we could have improved. Our commitment to service and our people has been recognised repeatedly through national awards for service and being a great place to work. In addition to our core industrial automation capability we also regularly provide management information systems and link automation systems to enterprise systems using technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft .Net and XML. In Cougar Automation we have a depth of software and IT knowledge and skill that is very rare to find in an industrial system integrator. Accreditations and awards: -ISO9001 Quality System -ISO14001 Environmental System -RoSPA Gold Award winning health and safety system -Accredited partners for Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, Mitsubishi, Wonderware, ABB, Microsoft and Beckhoff.

Established with two underground transporters by Craig Barnett in 2000, Cougar Mining Group has grown to include fellow director/shareholder Chad Dillinger, currently employing approx. 60 people involved with maintaining and managing a wide-ranging fleet of approx. 100 units of mobile underground equipment comprising loaders, driftrunners, auxiliary fans, heavy/longwall relocation equipment, shearer carrier, chock carriers, 40 & 60T heavy lifts, mynedozer, mule, flitmate etc. in addition to comprehensive group of attachments and smaller mining implements. Cougar has developed significant workshop and field maintenance capabilities supporting the hire fleet equipment as it cycles through and between hires, maintaining safety, compliance, reliability, and fit for purpose. Cougar Mining Group is proud of its local ethos, people, business, and community supporting the underground coal industry in the Illawarra, Western Districts, Hunter Valley and Central Queensland.

CRI was founded by Charles Cougle in the 1940s and continued on by his son Robert Cougle. Staying as a private family-run business has allowed the company principles to stay the way they were initially intended, service-oriented. Robert’s wife, son, and daughter (Debra, Matthew, and Tiffany respectively) all play key roles in the business and are excited to keep an open view of the new upcoming ideas on how to and what can be recycled. This aspect is one that has assisted in the process of helping to build recycling programs tailor-fit to many area companies, both large and small, and has helped divert much material from landfills to an area of recycling that can build value.