https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Brics Manufacturing Conference ready for trade facilitation

24th March 2021

By: Marleny Arnoldi

Online News Editor

     

Font size: - +

The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) Manufacturing Conference, which kicks off in Johannesburg on Friday, will give local manufacturers the opportunity to reflect on how they can grow using new technologies.

Organised by the Brics Manufacturing Working Group (MWG), the conference, which takes place at the Sandton Conference Centre, aims to help local manufacturers to leverage off South Africa’s membership of Brics by taking advantage of the opportunities presented by the grouping.

The MWG’s role is to facilitate trade and investment in manufacturing in South Africa and its fellow member countries and to encourage cooperation on projects where there is potential for collaboration or complementarity.

Brics MWG chairperson Kaizer Nyatsumba says that while access to markets is critical for growth, the manufacturing industry also needs to take advantage of new technologies to be sustainable.

He points out that it is in this context that the conference will discuss exponential manufacturing, which is one of three key projects of the working group.

The report will be presented by the MD of the Institute of Exponential Manufacturing, Johan van Tonder, who heads the exponential manufacturing investment programme in the MWG.

According to Van Tonder, the $20-billion programme spans ten manufacturing industry sectors and aims to create ten transformative industry leaders in the Brics community within ten years.

“The local industry has been facing an existential crisis because of increased automation as technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics lead to more advanced manufacturing technologies.

“However, the conference hopes to demonstrate to local manufacturers that these new technologies, coupled with exponential manufacturing, offer new opportunities for growth,” Nyatsumba notes.

 

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

Article Enquiry

Email Article

Save Article

Feedback

To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here

Showroom

EKATO Africa
EKATO Africa

Established in 1933, EKATO is the world leader in agitation technology, supplying agitators for processes and applications such as chemicals and...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Schauenburg SmartMine IoT
Schauenburg SmartMine IoT

SmartMine IoT has been developed with the mining industry in mind, to provides our customers with powerful business intelligence and data modelling...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Magazine round up | 19 June 2026
Magazine round up | 19 June 2026
19th June 2026

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







301

sq:0.058 0.091s - 127pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now