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Mar 10, 2014
Canadian miner Alamos Gold on Monday announced that it had appointed David Fleck to its board effective immediately.
Fleck is the former president and CEO of Macquarie Capital Markets Canada, and the former co-head of equity products and executive MD of BMO...
 Mar 10, 2014
With five months to go before its début opening, the massive Cape Industries Showcase 2014 exhibition has attracted a phenomenal response from many international companies. “Exhibitor interest for this exciting new multi-sector show has been stronger than...
Mar 07, 2014
The total systems approach to wastewater treatment is focused on offering industrial clients a fully integrated wastewater solution – one that includes all pieces of the puzzle, rather than simply a set of uncoordinated components and systems. The approach includes...
Mar 07, 2014
Is it a coincidence? The column published in the October 18 to 24, 2013 edition contained two articles, the one, on South Africa restricts citrus exports to Europe, and the other on the coated paper provisional antidumping duty. As I am preparing this week’s column...
Mar 06, 2014
Yenipazar
The TSX-V-listed shares of Turkish-focused project developer Aldridge Minerals on Thursday jumped 12.90% after the country’s Environment and Urbanisation Ministry gave the Yenipazar polymetallic project the environmental go-ahead.
Toronto-based Aldridge reported...
Mar 06, 2014
With five months to go before its début opening, the massive Cape Industries Showcase 2014 exhibition has attracted a phenomenal response from many international companies. “Exhibitor interest for this exciting new multi-sector show has been stronger than...
Feb 26, 2014
Democratic Alliance MP Tim Harris
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's budget contained few surprises, political parties said on Wednesday. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) said it understood the tight fiscal constraints under which Gordhan was forced to operate.
Feb 26, 2014
HRS Heat Exchangers, has provided WABAG with a customised thermal transfer solution to assist in a sewage treatment application in Siverek Turkey. WABAG is one of the world’s leading suppliers and installers of Water and Wastewater treatment plants. The Siverek...
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014
Feb 17, 2014
Africa is now definitely a destination of choice for overseas companies looking for business opportunities in new, growing markets. Seeking to takeadvantage of this trend, and at the same time introducing new technologies into the country, long established (1981)...
Feb 15, 2014
Minerals Technologies offered to buy AMCOL International for $1.36-billion, topping a bid from France's Imerys for the company that owns large reserves of a key mineral used in construction and energy industries.
Minerals Technologies offered $42 a share for AMCOL,...
Feb 13, 2014
Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies
A fact-finding mission to Jordan by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has revealed that the Middle Eastern country is “teeming” with a range of investment opportunities into which South African companies can tap. The department said on Thursday that most...
Feb 11, 2014
GOLD PROSPECTS Stratex is buying into a gold project in Liberia
Aim-listed gold and base metals exploration and development company Stratex International has signed a A$160 000 purchase agreement with private Australian company Aforo Resources to undertake exploration at its Sinoe gold project, in Liberia. Stratex, which is...
Feb 11, 2014
Cansan Alüminyum from Bursa, Turkey, has placed an order with SMS Meer, Germany, for the supply of a short-stroke front-loading extrusion press with 32/35-MN press force. The press is to be installed at the Hasanağa Works and can handle aluminum billets up to...
Feb 04, 2014
A new World Bank analysis of South Africa’s 20 000-plus exporters documents a worrying trend of underperformance over the past decade and highlights several structural and infrastructure constraints to the country meeting the National Development Plan’s (NDP’s)...
Feb 04, 2014
Three contract awards on three different continents underlines the confidence that Terra Nova Technologies has in South Africa’s Weba Chute Systems from M&J Engineering. TNT’s comprehensive understanding of the benefits that Weba Chute Systems provide in the...
Feb 04, 2014
The new Corolla
Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) on Tuesday launched volume production of the new Corolla at its Durban plant. The new model is the eleventh generation of this best-selling car. TSAM invested R1-billion at its Durban plant, as well as in the development of its staff...
Jan 31, 2014
The latest report by Akamai this week showed that South Africa’s average broadband speeds had emerged as one of the slowest among countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The third-quarter Akamai State of the Internet report said South Africa had...
Jan 30, 2014
Çöpler
TSX- and ASX-listed miner Alacer Gold on Thursday reported record yearly attributable gold production from its flagship Turkish Çöpler mine, lifting output to 216 850 oz – a 44% increase over 2012.
The Toronto-based company said the higher production was driven...
 
Jan 30, 2014
South African Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus
Several business and labour organisations have registered surprise and concern over a Wednesday announcement by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) that it had raised the repo rate at which the central bank lends to commercial banks to 5.5% from four-decade lows of...
Jan 28, 2014
ASX-and TSX-listed gold miner Alacer Gold has announced the resignation of its president and COO Howard Stevenson, who has accepted the position of CEO at another company.
Stevenson would remain with Alacer during a transition period, and would assist in finalising...
Jan 24, 2014
Asia-based trade exhibition companies Power Transmission and Control (PTC) Asia, CeMAT Asia and ComVac Asia concluded their aim to assist in the growth of the power transmission market in Asia in their four-day trade show in October last year at the Shanghai...
Jan 24, 2014
An encouraging trend in South African universities is the maturing collaboration with industry, where companies are actively involved in preparing students for the workplace, says Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Department of Computer Sciences Professor...
Jan 20, 2014
In an effort to reduce the high installation costs incurred in Australia, FMG (Fortesque Metals Group) requested Terra Nova Technologies to outsource the assembly of its transfer chutes and towers to overseas third party companies. M&J Engineering was awarded the...
Jan 20, 2014
Despite the thorny down-market the junior exploration sector has been dealing with over the past 18 months, several companies had been rewarded for their performances. The problem is, however, that the industry has not delivered a lot of performance, Sprott US...
Jan 17, 2014
The TSX-listed stock of Canadian miner Alamos Gold on Friday continued its downward spiral after the company on Thursday announced lower-than-expected results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, and provided a lower output outlook for 2014, which wiped out...
Jan 17, 2014
The Shah Deniz consortium announced the final investment decision for the Stage 2 development of the Shah Deniz gasfield in December 2013.
Jan 17, 2014
In the last instalment of this column, I mentioned that the Customs Tariff Act was introduced in 1914, which means customs duties have been in force in South Africa for 100 years. However, it is not only customs duties that are celebrating their centenary in South...
Jan 17, 2014
The gas pipeline will deliver gas from natural gas reserves located in the Shah Deniz-2 and other gasfields, in Azerbaijan, and from natural gasfields in countries neighbouring Turkey, to domestic markets.
Jan 15, 2014
The World Bank expects South Africa to grow by a relatively modest 2.7% in 2014 – up from its forecast of a lowly 1.9% in 2013 – as the world economy strengthens on the back of a turnaround in high-income countries five years after the global financial crisis...
Jan 13, 2014
Two prominent newspapers – The New York Times and The Guardian – have named the City of Cape Town the number-one place in the world to visit in 2014.
This comes as the city, which was named World Design Capital for the year, prepared for “one of its best...
Dec 13, 2013
If I mentioned the numbers 1914, 1964 and 2014, would you spot anything and would you know why I would have chosen these particular numbers? The first question the easier one – there is an arithmetic sequence. This means that the same value is added each time,...
Dec 13, 2013
"WE ARE GOING"
The Rea Vaya BRT system transports more passengers than the Gautrain at a tenth of the infrastructure cost
With a number of bus rapid transit (BRT) projects already in operation, engineering consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV (RHDHV) is involved in various capacities and various phases - from planning and design to implementation - of projects in Rustenburg, Polokwane,...
Dec 10, 2013
Airline passenger demand was expected to rise more than 30% in the next four years, the latest report by the International Air Transport Association (Iata) revealed on Tuesday. The Iata Airline Industry Forecast 2013 to 2017 showed that, by 2017, there would be a...
Dec 05, 2013
Çöpler
TSX- and ASX-listed gold miner Alacer Gold on Thursday reported that it had lifted the 2013 guidance for its flagship Turkish mine by 10% as a result of the mine’s strong performance over the past several quarters.
Alacer increased the guidance for the Çöpler...
Dec 03, 2013
The growth of mobile technologies in South Africa would result in economic growth of $241 per capita for the nation during the ten-year period to 2020, Vodafone Institute fellow Julia Manske said on Tuesday. A ten-country study by the Cologne Institute for Economic...
Dec 02, 2013
Ternitz a change of ownership took place in the Starlinger Group within a family. The Starlinger Group was restructured and thereby since then Maplan GmbH has been owned by the Soulier family that had previously held senior positions within the Starlinger Group. With...
Nov 29, 2013
Telecommunications group MTN has vowed to “vigorously defend” the latest lawsuit brought against it by Turkish rival Turkcell. The lawsuit, the summons of which had not yet been served on MTN, was the Turkish operator‘s fifth claim – and the first in South...
Nov 29, 2013
The Mersin International Port is considering the expansion of its cargo terminal facility to 2.2-million twenty-foot equivalent units.
 
Nov 28, 2013
Highly qualified specialists, better infrastructure and additional services to help customers expand in high growth markets BT today announced a new phase of investments into the rapidly growing economies of Asia Pacific, Turkey, the Middle East and Africa (AMEA)...
Nov 27, 2013
Turkish telecommunications group Turkcell has brought its legal wrangle with JSE-listed MTN Group over a mobile phone contract in Iran to home ground, as the Turkish operator revived its court case in the South Gauteng High Court on Wednesday. “The filing of the...
Nov 26, 2013
Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Elizabeth Thabethe has called on South Africa and Turkey to form an alliance to leverage off each other’s strengths to enable the countries to support industries and exploit opportunities in their respective regions. Speaking at a...
Nov 22, 2013
The project comprises efficiency improvement projects at Cimko’s plants, in Narli and Adiyaman.
Nov 22, 2013
The City of Johannesburg received 134 buses for its Rea Vaya Phase 1B in October from the the Daimler group of companies, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz South Africa’s (MBSA’s) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, Mercedes-Benz bus and coach brand manager Dirk Ansorge...
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