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Mondi achieves 35% growth in Q1 underlying operating profit

JSE- and LSE-listed packaging and paper group Mondi recorded a 35% year-on-year increase in underlying operating profit to €162-million during the first quarter of 2013, in line with its expectations, despite the effects of a one-off write-down...
03 May 13
 
 
ELECTRiCITY – 2

Deal signed for 50 MW Addis waste-to-energy plant

The State-owned Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has signed a $120-million contract with UK-based company Cambridge Industries for the construction of a 50 MW waste-to-energy power plant. The facility, which will be located, at Repi,...
08 Feb 13
 
 
GREEN ENERGY

MTN’s trigen plant to expand, incorporate other players

The success of MTN’s first trigeneration plant has sparked an influx of South African companies wanting to join the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Programme of Activities (PoA) of the telecommunication group’s next clean energy project,...
09 Nov 12
 
 
Martin Creamer Show on SAFM

09/11/2012 (On-The-Air) Audio Available

Foreign investors in South Africa’s latest batch of renewable energy opportunities have hit the ground running; Strong calls are being made for the crafting of a new social compact for the mining industry to prevent another Marikana; and Impala...
09 Nov 12
 
 
European Investment Bank

Company Announcement: European Investment Bank backs South Africa’s first solar tower project PDF Available

The European Investment Bank, Europe’s long-term lending institution, has agreed to provide EUR 50m for the Khi Solar One Project
 
 
Engineering & Manufacturing

Angola sugar manufacturing project under way

Consulting engineering company Bosch Projects is undertaking the largest greenfield sugar project in Angola. Bosch Projects signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Japanese trading company Marubeni Corporation on April 24 to undertake this...
03 Aug 12
 
 
ENERGY & MANUFACTURING

Market ready to pursue nuclear localisation prospects, DTI asserts

The market is ready to take up the localisation spinoffs from a possible new nuclear build programme in South Africa, a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) official said on Tuesday. Deputy director Cobbs Pillay, who is responsible for green...
15 May 12
 
 
SPAIN & SOUTHERN AFRICA RENEWABLE ENERGY

Company Announcement: The Spanish renewable industry builds the first solar thermal tower in US PDF Available

Madrid, February 2012 The Spanish renewable industry is building the biggest solar thermal tower with 160 metres in height in Tonopah, Nevada (USA).
 
 
BioTherm Energy

Company Announcement: “World class – every step of the way.” PDF Available

That’s how green energy specialist Jasandra Nyker, CEO of independent power producer BioTherm Energy, describes the bid process of the Department of Energy (DOE) for the first phase of South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme.
 
 
Greg Kukard Communications

Company Announcement: BioTherm CEO lauds DOE’s renewable energy bid process PDF Available

“World class – every step of the way.” That’s how green energy specialist Jasandra Nyker, CEO of independent power producer BioTherm Energy, describes the bid process of the Department of Energy (DOE) for the first phase of South...
 
 
Vodacom Group Limited

Company Announcement: Vodacom green base station supplies KZN community with renewable energy PDF Available

Today Emfihlweni, a community in Northern KZN, received electricity for the first time.
 
 
Electricity

King III drives ‘greener’ breweries

Water and wastewater management company Talbot & Talbot reports that integrated reporting, as described in the King Code and Report on Governance in South Africa, or King III, is becoming the driving force behind a trend towards the more judicious...
11 Nov 11
 
 
 
 
 
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