Austin Engineering has been awarded a contract to the value of $US10.5 million to supply 52 high-performance dump truck bodies to one of its four large clients that operates in Chile. In the past two years, the company has invested heavily in developing its manufacturing capacity in South America.

This has already started to pay dividends, and Austin’s announcement today that it also received an order for 10 truck bodies from Bolivia in the second half of 2011-12 is encouraging.