Equinox Delayed by This?

[Don In South Jersey]

SOUTH AUSTRALIA MANUFACTURING FIRM RAIDED BY FEDERAL TASKFORCE Adelaide - A South Australian manufacturing company, located in Adelaide, was raided on Friday afternoon by an Australian Federal Police Taskforce, executing a search warrant issued on behalf of the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme. (NICNAS).
Minelab Metal Detectors, a unit of Codan Industries, was the subject of the Taskforce Crackdown on Illegal Industrial Chemical Importation. A Police spokesperson stated that information had been developed that indicated that the company had been illegally importing a dangerous chemical used in strengthening plastics, named Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), from Indonesia. Multiple 500 liter drums of the substance were confiscated during the raid. DBP is listed by NICNAS a having an "Absolute Prohibition", and not allowed to be imported under any circumstances.
Minelab was ordered to shut down all production facilities pending the final outcome of the investigation. Employees were all released. Two senior executives of the company are being held pending an initial bond hearing
No court date has yet been set, as the Taskforce and Federal Law Enforcement agencies continue to develop charges.
Codan company Managing Director and CEO Donald McGurk stated that the company intends to cooperate and assist the government with their investigation, and hopes to minimize the impact on the subordinate unit, its employees, and customers.
NICNAS helps protect the Australian people and the environment by assessing the risks of industrial chemicals and providing information to promote their safe use.
Their focus is the industrial use of chemicals. This covers a broad range of chemicals used in inks, plastics, adhesives, paints, glues, solvents, cosmetics, soaps and many other products.
---31 March 2018
by April Sankowsky

 

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[ltd063]

If this isn't fake news, the price of an Equinox on Ebay is going to go through the roof.

 

[Don In South Jersey]

April Fools...

 

[SittingElf]

Ummmm.... if you want to post something like this, then develop the prank yourself! You copied MY creation off of Detector Prospector without giving appropriate credit or link.
Taking credit where credit is NOT due!
It's called Plagiarizing!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Ummmm.... if you want to post something like this, then develop the prank yourself! You copied MY creation off of Detector Prospector without giving appropriate credit or link.
Taking credit where credit is NOT due!
It's called Plagiarizing!

It would have violated our rules to post link to another detecting forum.

 

[fuceye]

It would have violated our rules to post link to another detecting forum.

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[smokeythecat]

What, me worry?

 

[Terry Soloman]

I say we tie Don to the whipping post, and let the Elf wail on 'im for a while with his Garrett Carrot.

 

[Peyton Manning]

well this was 20 seconds wasted

 

[Rick K]

I doubt Codan does any plastics mounding in Australia. Their manufacturing of metal detectors is (I believe) totally “offshores” to Plex in Malaysia.

 

[smokeythecat]

Or China.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I doubt Codan does any plastics mounding in Australia. Their manufacturing of metal detectors is (I believe) totally “offshores” to Plex in Malaysia.

Correct, their detectors are made in Malaysia, research and development is in Australia.

 

[vferrari]

I say we tie Don to the whipping post, and let the Elf wail on 'im for a while with his Garrett Carrot.

Thanks for the visual on that one, Terry. I can't unimagine it now.