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General Motors South Africa

Company Announcement:NGK Ceramics South Africa (Pty) Ltd is GMSA Supplier of the Year

NGK Ceramics South Africa (Pty) Ltd won the General Motors South Africa award as overall Supplier of the Year for 2011 at a function held in Port Elizabeth last week.

First Cut

Company Announcement: Italian Tube Bending Manufacturer Sees Huge Growth Opportunities in South Africa

A big industrial sector, a healthy export market and good technical support make South Africa a market with very promising investment opportunities. This is the view of Marco Tommasi, Area Manager of Italian tube bending machine manufacturer Crippa.

MANUFACTURING

Investment enhances component maker’s pipe-bending capacity

Manufacturer Smiths Manufacturing has enhanced the capacity of its Durban production facility by installing a high-performance tube-bending machine manufactured by Italy-based bending specialist Crippa, said Smiths Manufacturing project...

By: Schalk Burger

19 Aug 11

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

First batch of tooling apprentices graduate from KZN centre of excellence

The first batch of seven apprentices received their certificates last week at the new R43-million Coastal KZN College's Tooling Centre of Excellence, which has been established to help tackle the skills shortage in the metals and engineering...

By: Margie Inggs

05 Dec 08

Furnaces, kilns and ovens

Solution heat-treatment furnace being researched

Test results for an ongoing research and development project to improve uniformity and reduce cycle time in a solution heat-treatment furnace will be presented by Seco/Warwick project engineer Jack Mahoney at the ASM Heat Treat Expo on September...

Breaking News

Toyota SA is fast-becoming leader in export race

Toyota South Africa (TSA) exported its first locally-made Corolla under the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) only in 2003 – years after its competitors, such as BMW and DaimlerChrysler, started their high-volume exports of South...

By: Irma Venter

11 Apr 05

Automotive

Latecomer to frontrunner

Toyota South Africa entered the high-volume export race late, but is fast becoming a leader

By: Irma Venter

08 Apr 05

Automotive

What auto component makers need from the MIDP

Import price parity in steel and aluminium is threatening the competitiveness of local manufacture and the government is urged to act

By: Martin Creamer

11 Oct 02

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Cape Town Port Elizabeth DURBAN Hanover Pinetown Pittsburgh Detroit Natal Tokyo Columbus London	General Motors South Africa GM North America Goodyear SA LUK/Schaeffler Smiths Manufacturing Tenneco Ride Control South Africa Crippa Coastal Education JSE Securities Exchange Metair Investments Smiths Industries Bentelier BMW DaimlerChrysler Denso Ford General Motors Magda Donelly Sumitomo Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota South Africa Wesco Investments Armstrong Hydraulics Corolla Federal Mogul First National Battery French Valeo Systems Hella South Africa Hesto Harnesses Iscor Koito Mazda Metindustrial Midas OEMs Supreme Spring Tenneco Toyota Valeo Volkswagen Wesco	Africa Europe North America	Australia Brazil Japan Korea Thailand Canada Germany South Africa Italy United States China New Zealand Singapore
Facility	Industry Term	Person	Organisation
P&A Warehouse Prospecton Plant East London Factory Stanger Factory Supreme Plant Uitenhage Plant	Diesel Particulate Filter Manufacturer Diesel Products Automotive And Aerospace Industries Exported Tube-bending Machinery Local Automotive Components Manufacturer Motor Air Conditioning Systems Pipes Tube Bending Machine Manufacturer Local Original-equipment Manufacturers Motor Air-conditioning Systems Car Manufacturer Car Manufacturer’s Pickups Plastic-resin Paint Capacity Plastic-resin PaintnCapacity Supply Chain Supply Networks Air-movement Systems Supplier Automotive Component Manufacturing Group Automotive ComponentnManufacturing Group Automotive Products Fewer Car Models Plastics Division Renowned Manufacturer Steel	Evan Dold Rex Diff Cut Marco Tommasi Steve Van Wyk Tomassi Alain Lamusse Henry Frandsen Luke Jevon Trevor Smith Jack Mahoney Albert Wessels Bert Wessels Elisabeth Bradley Johan Van Zyl Magda Donelly Satoshi Watanabe Alan Plummer AlannPlummer	Department Of Education R43-million Coastal KZN College's Tooling Centre Of Excellence Tooling Centre Of Excellence
Product	Programming Language	Technology	Province Or State
Ricoh Caplio R30 Digital Camera C-Class Corolla Toyota Hilux TSA Audi A4 BMW 3 Series Jetta Land Rover Defender Land Rover Discovery LandnRover Discovery Mazda 323 Rover 75 Toyota Camry	L	Heat Transfer	Maryland