- Home
- Latest News
- Sector News
- Back
- Agriculture
- Automotive
- Chemicals
- Construction
- Defence & Aerospace
- Economy
- Electricity
- Energy
- Environmental
- Manufacturing
- Back
- Manufacturing Home
- Capital Equipment
- Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
- Clothing & Textiles
- Food & Beverage
- Foundries, Forges & Die-Casting
- Furniture & Wood products
- Hydraulics
- Industrial Filters & Filtration
- Instrumentation & Control
- Manufacturing
- Metals & Engineering
- Paper, Plastics, Packaging, Printing
- Pipes & Tubes
- Pumps
- Rubber
- Valves
- Welding & Cutting
- Metals
- Mining
- Renewable Energy
- Services
- Technology & Communications
- Trade
- Transport & Logistics
- Water
- Magazine
- Back
- This Week
- Back Copies
- Cartoon
- Business Leader
- Editorial Insight
- Company Profiles
- Photo of the Week
- Features Library
- Back
- Features Library Home
- Aerospace
- Africa Energy Indaba
- African Utility Week
- Agricultural Engineering
- Air, Gas, Fumes and Dust Control
- Airport Services & Development
- Aluminium
- Automation and Computerisation
- Automotive Assembly in Africa
- Automotive Components
- Automotive Industry
- bauma CONEXPO AFRICA
- Bearings and Bushes
- Biofuels
- Boilers and Burners
- Brewery and Winery
- Business Conferences and Exhibitions
- Business in Africa
- Business in KwaZulu-Natal
- Business in the Western Cape
- Cables and Accessories
- Capital Equipment in Construction
- Cement and Concrete
- Chemicals and Petrochemicals
- Civil Engineering and Construction
- Climate Change
- Commercial and Industrial Property
- Compressors, Air Motors and Vacuum Pumps
- Concrete Manufacturers Association
- Construction
- Constructional Engineering Association (CEA)
- Construction Materials and Equipment
- Consulting Engineers
- Corporate Profiles
- Corrosion Control, Coatings and Tribology
- Courier and Freight Services
- Defence
- Drones
- Education and Training
- Electrical Power Generation and Transmission
- Electrification and Distribution
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Energy Storage
- Engineering Education
- Environmental Protection
- Eskom
- Factory Automation
- Fasteners
- Fire Prevention and Protection
- Fleet Management (TruckX Conference)
- Flooring Industry Training Association
- Flooring Industry
- Food and Beverages
- Foundries, Forges and Die-Casting
- Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens and Dryers
- Gas
- Gas-to-Power
- Generators and Standby Power
- Glass Manufacturing
- Green Building and Industries
- Green Industries
- Hand-Held and Power Tools
- Harbour and Offshore Services
- Harbour Infrastructure and Dredging
- Health and Safety
- Heating & Refrigeration
- Heavy Lifting and Abnormal Loads
- Hydraulics and Pneumatics
- Industrial and Commercial Lighting
- Industrial Cleaning and Shutdown
- Industrial Filters and Filtration
- Industrial Financing
- Industry 4.0
- Infrastructure & Services
- Instrumentation and Control
- Italy-South Africa Partnership
- Labour Relations
- Laser Technology
- Lifts, Escalators and Passenger Conveyors
- Local Southern African Manufacturing Expo
- Locomotives, Railway Trucks and Wagons
- Machine Tools
- Maintenance and Refurbishment
- Manufacturing
- Materials-Handling and Logistics
- Medical and Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Motors, Drives and Mechanical Power Transmission
- Nampo
- Noise, Vibration and NDT
- Nuclear Industry
- Oil Refineries
- Oils and Lubricants
- Packaging, Labelling and Barcoding
- Paper, Pulp and Board
- Plastics, Packaging & Printing
- Pipes, Tubes and Hoses
- Power and Electricity World Africa
- Power-Gen Africa
- Project Management
- Public Transport and Infrastructure
- Pumps
- Rail Transport and Infrastructure
- Roads
- Rubber
- SA Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC)
- SA Institute of Materials Handling
- SAISC
- Sasol – Chemicals & Retail Fuel
- Sassda
- Seals, Gaskets and Sealing Mechanisms
- Security Technology for Business
- Sewage and Effluent
- SEZ, IDZ & Agri Parks
- Small Business and Supplier Development
- Solar Energy
- South Africa Germany Partnership
- South Africa-China Partnership
- Southern African Institute of Welding
- Stainless Steel
- Steel
- Steel Construction and Cladding
- Sugar Growers, Millers and Refiners
- Temperature, Pressure and Process Control
- Testing, Inspection & Certification Services
- The Concrete Conference
- The NAACAM Show Preview
- Top Projects
- Truck, Trailer, Bus and Bakkie
- Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Tanks and Containers
- Valves
- Warehousing and Storage
- Waste Management and Recycling
- Water Engineering and Infrastructure
- Water Week
- Water Treatment, Purification and Desalination
- Welding and Cutting
- Wind Energy
- Wire, Rope, Sling and Chain
- Work Apparel
- Working at Height
- Supplements
- Video Reports
- Audio
- Research
- Press Office
- Back
- All Companies
- AECOM
- African Utility Week
- AfriSam
- Arup
- ASP Fire
- AT Kearney
- Atlas Copco
- Barloworld Logistics
- Bearings International
- Constructional Engineering Association
- Corestruc
- DEHN Africa
- Ecic
- ELB
- Engen
- False Bay TVET College
- Fasken
- Goscor Group
- Hilti
- Hogan Lovells
- Huawei
- IFAT Africa
- ISG
- Juwi
- NCPC (National Cleaner Production Centre)
- Powermite
- Pragma
- Pyrotec Packmark
- Resolve Solution Partners
- Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings
- SACEEC
- Seifsa
- Siemens
- SKF Group
- Skyriders
- SMS group
- SRK Consulting
- SSG Consulting
- Syspro
- thyssenkrupp
- Universal Storage
- WEC Projects
- Weir Minerals Africa
- Westcon-Comstor
- WSP
- Announcements
- 25 Years of Democracy
- Columnists
- What's On
- Jobs
- Topics
- Tenders
- Apps
- Product Portal
- Made in South Africa
- About Us
- Legal Notice
- Comment Guidelines
- Letters
- Marketing Videos
Latest Videos
Aveng to seek shareholder backing for sale of Grinaker-LTA stake to Kutana in March 
By: Terence Creamer 21st February 2017 Construction and engineering group Aveng will seek shareholder approval before the end of March for the sale of a 51% beneficial interest in Aveng Grinaker-LTA to Kutana Construction, a black economic empowerment company. Aveng has also decided to include Aveng Water in the transaction, along... →
New panel established to guide Gauteng on infrastructure projects
By: Natasha Odendaal 20th February 2017 The Gauteng provincial government (GPG) has established an economic advisory panel to advise it on the roll-out of social and economic infrastructure projects planned for the next two years. GPG aims to leverage the various infrastructure projects planned for the next two years to promote the... →
Foreign policy rows all about the changing balance of power
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 17th February 2017 The year began with two rows on foreign policy. The first was about a visit to Taiwan by Solly Msimang in his capacity as the executive mayor of Tshwane. The second, which riled the African National Congress (ANC) even more, was about a visit to Israel by Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi... →
New black-owned compressed-air company launched
By: David Oliveira 17th February 2017 The South African compressed-air industry has celebrated its first 100% black-owned company following the launch of Enza Air, a division of industrial holdings company Asani Group, in Johannesburg earlier this month. “This is a very important day for us and signals the birth of a new player in... →
South Africa remains on junk ‘knife-edge’ as ANC succession takes centre stage
By: Terence Creamer 14th February 2017 South Africa will remain on a downgrade “knife-edge” in 2017, Standard Bank chief economist Goolam Ballim warns, despite the bank’s view that the country’s growth will recover to 1.4% from only 0.4% last year. Both Fitch Ratings and S&P Global currently have South African on ‘negative watch’,... →
AMSA keen to tap power tariff deal as Eskom mulls ‘incentive pricing’
By: Terence Creamer 10th February 2017 Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) is optimistic that Eskom, with the support of the energy regulatory, could extend pricing incentives to it and other energy-intensive businesses in light of its surplus position and government’s appeal for interventions to reignite growth in the... →
IBM launches free digital skills development platform for Africa
By: Schalk Burger 9th February 2017 Technology multinational IBM has launched a $70-million (R945-million) digital literacy and skills development initiative aimed at training 25-million people in Africa over five years. The Digital Nation Africa (DNA) initiative is being undertaken in partnership with African universities,... →
Cesa eyes ambitious consulting engineering profession transformation strategy
By: Natasha Odendaal 8th February 2017 A year after taking a back-to-basics approach, Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) is gearing up to tackle transformation within its membership base and throughout its industry, with a transformation committee embarking on a process to develop the industry body’s proposed interventions to... →
Sappi to invest $305m in US, Europe mills
By: Anine Kilian 8th February 2017 JSE-listed Sappi will invest $305-million over a three-year period in certain of its operations in the US and Europe, the company said on Wednesday. Reporting on its results for the first quarter of the 2017 financial year, it highlighted that it would invest $165-million in upgrading a paper... →
Outa calls on Ministers to establish commission of inquiry into ‘excessive’ GFIP costs
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 6th February 2017 The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) on Monday called on Transport Minister Dipuo Peters and Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown to intervene and commit to introducing a commission of inquiry into the “excessive costs” of the first phase of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP),... →
Hudaco posts higher FY earnings, overcomes 2015's tough trading environment
By: Anine Kilian 3rd February 2017 JSE-listed industrial products provider Hudaco posted an increase in earnings for the year ended November 30, 2016, overcoming the “exceedingly difficult” trading environment in the prior financial year. Speaking at a presentation of the group’s results, CEO Graham Dunford said Hudaco was... →
Sappi celebrates 80 years on the JSE
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 31st January 2017 Pulp and paper producer Sappi on Tuesday celebrated its eightieth year as a JSE-listed company, as well as the fact that it was, once again, part of the bourse’s Top 40 Index, which includes the 40 largest companies by market capitalisation included in the FTSE/JSE All Shares Index. Sappi has... →
Ongoing solar projects promote IPP success
By: Sascha Solomons 27th January 2017 Global private engineering and technology company Sener and its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partners, Emvelo and Cobra, are scheduled to complete the EPC of the 100 MW Ilanga solar thermal power plant near Upington, in the Northern Cape, at the end of 2018. The company... →
Camden power station to receive last of 164 burners
By: Victor Moolman 27th January 2017 Engineering company Hlakani Engineering will deliver the last of the 164 custom made burners to State-owned power utility Eskom’s Camden power station, in Mpumalanga, in the second half of this year. →
Equipment firm launches new sit-on cleaner
By: Dylan Slater 27th January 2017 Industrial cleaning equipment supplier Goscor Cleaning Equipment launched the new M17 sit-on sweeper-scrubber, manufactured by cleaning equipment company Tennant, in November 2016. →
Exxaro will support any ‘sustainable’ plan for restarting Arnot
By: Terence Creamer 26th January 2017 Mining group Exxaro says it will be guided by Eskom on the future of the Arnot coal mine, in Mpumalanga, which was closed after Eskom’s contentious December 31, 2015, decision not to renew a 40-year coal supply agreement (CSA) with Arnot, an Eskom-tied mine operated by Exxaro. The termination of... →
New ICT policy could throw industry into tailspin, warns analyst
By: Natasha Odendaal 25th January 2017 Despite the positive, well-intended rationale behind South Africa’s new National Integrated Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Policy White Paper, the implementation of the policy could turn the industry on its head and into untested, questionable territory. The implementation of... →
Anglo confident of ‘favourable outcome’ with Eskom on sale of three tied coal mines
By: Terence Creamer 25th January 2017 Mining group Anglo American says it has held discussions with and continues to engage with Eskom, government and potential bidders on its plan to exit its Eskom-tied mines – Kriel, New Denmark and New Vaal. Responding to Eskom interim CEO Matshela Koko’s insistence that Eskom had assets at the... →
Investment key to raising South Africa’s lagging growth potential – World Bank
By: Terence Creamer 17th January 2017 The World Bank says raising private investment in South Africa will be critical to increasing the country’s growth potential above its current estimate of only 1.3%, which is well below the National Development Plan’s (NDP’s) aspiration of 5.4% a year. In its ninth South Africa Economic Update,... →
Organic growth in local companies to boost employment, but scarce skills a concern – PwC
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 17th January 2017 Amid the country’s rising unemployment rate, 83% of South African CEOs are confident about their company’s prospects for revenue growth over the next year, which will result in an increase in headcount. In its eighth South African edition of the yearly Global CEO Survey, financial services firm... →
Ford South Africa recalls Kuga model
By: Anine Kilian 16th January 2017 Ford South Africa has recalled its 1.6 litre Ford Kuga model. CEO Jeffrey Nemeth on Monday said the recall was limited to 1.6 litre models manufactured in Valencia, Spain, between December 2012 and February 2014. About 4 556 vehicles will be affected by the safety recall. →
Draft new built environment regulations to be completed by financial year-end – Nxesi
By: Anine Kilian 13th January 2017 The Department of Public Works (DPW) is reviewing “outdated” legislation that regulates the built environment. Addressing media on the sidelines of a DPW bursary awards ceremony in Centurion, on Friday, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi noted that the department intends to have new built... →
2016: Year of Orwellian manipulation
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 16th December 2016 We must declare 2016 the year of Orwellian manipulation. For the purposes of this article, Orwellian manipulation is about presenting falsehoods as truths, and truths as falsehoods. The aim is to distort political reality and, thereby, change the political environment to the disadvantage of... →
New gas projects will be economical – Aurecon
By: Victor Moolman 15th December 2016 With two major gas-to-power projects under way in the country, consulting company Aurecon believes that the two, possibly three, gas power stations associated with the projects can be economical as existing infrastructure can be used to support them. →
Locally designed cot promotes functionality in paediatric care, potential niche market
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 13th December 2016 A display of engineering creativity has earned industrial design firm Praestet a contract to supply 50 of its Symba paediatric beds to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (NMCH), with three beds already delivered to the Parktown-based paediatric hospital. An improvement on the old “cage bed”... →
South Africa must wake up to fuel cell race or risk losing out
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 9th December 2016 South Africa is in a global race in fuel cell development and should not consider itself “special”, as there are a number of other countries that could reap benefits from their fuel cell plans far sooner, an analyst warned on Friday. Speaking during a panel discussion on the impact of fuel cell... →
Power instability leads to security technology changes in South Africa
By: Victor Moolman 9th December 2016 Owing to South Africa’s power instability, smart technology and solutions provider Jasco Group says it has designed solar-powered security systems. →
Sasol shows off new corporate head office
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 6th December 2016 The final phase of global chemicals company Sasol’s new headquarters, Sasol Place, in Sandton, its tenth floor, was commissioned on Monday. This not only houses its group executive suites, but also hosts the company’s engagement facilities. This completes the 11-storey, 47-m-tall office complex,... →
Liberty lists new Reit, raises nearly R4bn
By: Natasha Odendaal 6th December 2016 Liberty Group on Tuesday successfully unbundled and listed a portion of its property portfolio on the JSE’s main board as real estate investment trust (Reit) Liberty Two Degrees (L2D), raising some R3.8-billion. The Amelia Beattie-led Reit raised R3-billion at listing price from invited investors... →
Ekurhuleni excited to activate Aerotropolis project as part of wider 5-year plan
2nd December 2016 Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality is excited to finally acquire a comprehensive plan for the much anticipated Aerotropolis project announced two years ago. The Aerotropolis project is one of the important projects the city is spearheading, amongst others it has unveiled as part of its... →
Seacom’s business unit gains traction
By: Natasha Odendaal 30th November 2016 Pan-African telecommunications firm Seacom has gained better-than-expected momentum in its quest to grow its enterprise segment, with the well received establishment of the second unit opening up the East African market. The business unit, which launched its full set of business offerings to the... →
Govt, business and labour to up partnership game in 2017
By: Natasha Odendaal 29th November 2016 The partnership between civil society, labour, business and government that recently averted a near-downgrade of South Africa’s investment rating will “lift its game” next year to ensure that citizens start to experience change, according to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Speaking at a World... →
Signs of hope in South Africa’s struggling agriculture sector
By: Anine Kilian 25th November 2016 The agriculture sector contributes about 1.6% to South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP), below the 2.2% contribution that is needed for the sector to remain sustainable, Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) CEO Dr John Purchase said on Friday. Addressing delegates at a conference focused on... →
Company supports plastic waste management
By: Sascha Solomons 25th November 2016 As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), plastic pipes manufacturer DPI Plastics will sponsor the inaugural African Marine Waste Network (AMWN) conference next year. The AMWN was launched in July this year by the Sustainable Seas Trust (SST), plastics industry representative... →
Tiger Brands posts higher income despite inflationary pressure
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 23rd November 2016 The prolonged drought and significant currency volatility has contributed to significant inflation in raw material input costs for JSE-listed fast-moving consumer goods producer Tiger Brands in the financial year ended September 30. The higher costs impacted the grains and groceries divisions, in... →
Sasol unveils R1.1bn polypropylene expansion project
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 21st November 2016 Petrochemicals group Sasol on Monday inaugurated its C3 expansion project, which enables it to expand Secunda Chemicals Operations polypropylene production by 103 000 t/y to just over 625 000 t/y. The R1.1-billion, Secunda-based project was lauded as a major capital investment in tough economic... →
Minimum wage adds stability that local economy needs – Jonas
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 21st November 2016 The newly proposed national minimum wage of R3 500 will not only establish greater labour stability in South Africa, but it will also evoke positive collaboration between business, labour and government, Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a media... →
Clover opens R40m visitors centre
By: Anine Kilian 15th November 2016 Dairy products and juice manufacturer Clover on Tuesday launched its R40-million visitors centre at its factory in Clayville, Midrand – the first such centre in the South African dairy industry. The facility, which took three years to complete, will be open to the public from February 2017. →
Latest News
Real Economy Report
Second Take
SAFM
Topics In These Articles
