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            <title>RMA showcases holistic offering at A-OSH Expo 2026</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mutual insurance provider Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA) used its presence at A-OSH Expo 2026 to highlight its evolution from a traditional workers’ compensation provider into a broader social insurer focused on prevention, rehabilitation and worker wellbeing. Speaking to Engineering News, RMA prevention head Dr Jessica Hutchings and prevention programme manager Ronwin Goliath said the company’s integrated approach seeks to prevent workplace incidents before compensation becomes necessary.]]></description>
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            <title>Cape Town’s Metal Theft Unit closes 136 non-compliant scrap traders; recovers 800 kg of ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the ten months between July last year and April this year, the City of Cape Town’s (CoCT’s) Metal Theft Unit made 88 arrests and recovered more than a kilometre of stolen cable and more than 800 kg of stolen metal. The unit also completed 5 979 patrols in hotspot areas, executed 1 257 scrapyard compliance inspections, responded to 423 complaints from the public, and issued 3 095 fines for various by-law transgressions.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <title>Glencore could walk away from South Africa smelter rescue talks over conditions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Glencore's South African ferrochrome unit could walk away from talks with the government over a discounted electricity package due to what it sees as unfavourable conditions, an executive said on Thursday. Glencore has said it requires reduced tariffs to keep its loss-making smelters open and avert job cuts. The government is keen to save the smelters, which employ thousands and are major customers of the state-owned electricity supplier Eskom.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa-based foundry and engineering company Thos Begbie has been awarded two significant projects, with the completion dates for both expected in the third quarter of this year. The first project entails the complete rebuild of a copper smelting furnace for the foundry of global commodities producer BHP’s Olympic Dam, in Australia, which is situated in one of the most significant copper, gold and uranium deposits globally.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <title>Africa urged to move from critical-minerals  rhetoric to tangible development</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa and the broader African continent hold vast critical minerals essential to the global clean energy transition, yet the challenge remains turning this potential into tangible economic and industrial development. Hence, when policymakers, industry leaders, and development financiers converge at platforms such as the recent Investing in African Mining Indaba 2026 in Cape Town, the message is increasingly clear: Africa must move beyond pronouncements of its mineral wealth and focus on implementation, infrastructure, and strategic value addition.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority (EWSETA) has welcomed the €2-million investment received from the EU to advance demand-driven skills development linked to South Africa’s critical minerals and battery economy. As investment in critical minerals gathers pace in response to the global energy transition, South Africa’s ability to develop skilled, work-ready talent is becoming increasingly important to its industrial competitiveness, EWSETA says.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Trade, industrial policy decisions loom</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the big trade and industrial policy decisions that loom as key minerals processing and manufacturing sectors bend under the weight of high electricity tariffs and surging import competition. ]]></description>
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            <title>Energy regulator approves power cost relief for ferrochrome makers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's energy regulator on Thursday approved an application by Eskom to reduce electricity tariffs by 35% for two distressed ferrochrome operations battling high power costs. More than a dozen smelters have shut down in South Africa in recent years, leading to thousands of job losses, largely due to high electricity costs which have surged by more than 900% since 2008.]]></description>
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            <title>CSIR launches new hot isostatic press in Pretoria</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A state-of-the-art hot isostatic press (HIP) facility has been unveiled by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Pretoria, Gauteng, providing South African manufacturers with domestic access to technology that improves the strength and durability of metal components. The facility was established through National Equipment Programme funding from the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI).]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <title>Copper Mark, SSI sign collaboration agreement on responsible copper sourcing for solar sector</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Copper Mark and the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) have signed a memorandum of understanding that establishes a framework for collaboration aimed at promoting responsible production and sourcing of copper across the solar energy value chain. The organisations said on November 27 that copper was a major component in solar energy generation and transmission and that rising demand for renewable energy was increasing the need for cooperation between stakeholders involved in copper mining, processing and manufacturing.]]></description>
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            <title>AMSA calls for urgent review of new scrap metal policy</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has called for the immediate suspension and review of recently amended regulations governing the price preference system (PPS) for scrap metal, warning that the policy continues to damage the country’s wider steel industry and undermine industrial competitiveness. In a statement issued on November 5, the company said South Africa’s integrated steel value chain noted “with serious concern” the newly gazetted PPS amendments by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac).]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <title>Itac finds Chinese steel dumping but no provisional duties yet</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has made a preliminary finding that certain steel products imported from China are being dumped and are causing material injury to the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) steel industry. However, Itac has decided not to impose provisional antidumping duties at this stage, citing temporary safeguard duties introduced in June that may have mitigated the impact of the imports.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <title>Tribunal finds Cape Gate was part of scrap metal buyers’ cartel</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Competition Tribunal has found that certain large buyers of scrap, including steel and wire products company Cape Gate, had entered into an agreement to fix the purchase price of scrap metal. The tribunal has found that Cape Gate contravened parts of the Competition Act by participating in price-fixing in the market for the purchase of scrap metal in South Africa.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[This month sees the option to study laser welding – a new technology-driven training programme – being formally added to the Southern African Institute of Welding’s (SAIW’s) training portfolio. “With pilot courses launching in September 2025 and a full rollout to the public in January 2026, this marks a significant expansion into high-tech welding processes,” enthuses SAIW executive director Vicus Burger.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Metal production technologies company Primetals Technologies has been awarded a contract by steel producer JSW Steel Salem Works to implement advanced process optimisation solutions at the Salem plant in Tamil Nadu state, India. The digitalisation project includes the installation of comprehensive Level-2 process automation systems at the meltshop and casting areas.]]></description>
            <author>Trent Roebeck</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Metals and technologies supplier SMS group in June announced a partnership with US-based metal innovation and technologies company The Systems Group, to deliver safer, more sustainable and lower-maintenance solutions for steelmaking plants operating with electric arc furnaces (EAFs) and secondary metallurgy units. A significant part of this partnership is the deployment of spray-cooled technology – a patented system developed by operators in the 1980s and owned by The Systems Group since 1999 – which has become a “globally trusted standard” in cooling systems for steel mills, particularly those using EAFs.]]></description>
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            <title>US tariffs expected to have significant impact on metals, engineering sector, Seifsa warns</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 30% tariff on South African exports to the US is expected to have a significant and multidimensional impact on the South African metals and engineering sector, Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) CEO Tafadzwa Chibanguza has warned. “While not all companies are directly affected, the broader ecosystem, including suppliers, customers and competitors, face serious disruption,” he said in a statement on August 4.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has requested the South African Revenue Service (Sars) to impose a provisional safeguard duty of 52.34% of the value of imports of thin-gauge corrosion-resistant steel coil for 200 days, effective from June 27. These provisional measures apply to all countries except those developing countries whose individual import volumes do not exceed 3% of total imports or collectively account for less than 9% of total imports.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) Alliance – of which metal packaging PRO MetPac-SA is an active member – has been restructured into five strategic pillars: waste picker integration; compliance and governance; infrastructure development; public relations; and legislative reform. The restructuring was announced by MetPac-SA CEO Dr Kishan Singh at the organisation’s recently held sixth AGM.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Namibia remains a “trailblazer” in the hydrogen space with up to five final investment decisions scheduled to be made in 2025 and 2026, demonstrating African leadership on the global stage by pioneering a world first for green industrialisation, says hydrogen iron-ore producer Hylron. At the recent Oshivela grand opening celebration, Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah inaugurated the HyIron project, which achieved the world’s first zero-emission iron production plant breakthrough.]]></description>
            <author>Trent Roebeck</author>
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Team members and stakeholders celebrate the official opening of the Hylron production plant
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            <description><![CDATA[Following the announcement by US President Donald Trump on April 2 that South Africa would be subjected to 30% tariffs on its exports to the US, banker and academic Colin Coleman has said there is little hope of this being a short-term intervention. He said it was likely that Trump’s policies and approach would extend beyond his four-year term into the next administration, which in all likelihood would also be Republican.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Local steel consumption needs to be ramped up significantly through the execution of mooted infrastructure projects, by both the public and private sectors, Hot Dip Galvanizers Association of Southern Africa (HDGASA) executive director Robin Clark asserts. South Africa has the capacity to produce about ten-million tonnes a year of steel, although the country is currently consuming only about four-million tonnes a year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is worried about a “possible bloodbath of job losses” across multiple sectors, including steel, transportation, ferrochrome and mining, on the back of concerns about the 2025 Budget, problems faced by steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) and State-owned logistics company Transnet, along with an underwhelming performance in the mining sector. At the NUM national executive committee (NEC) meeting, held on February 27 and 28, the various issues were discussed, ranging from reflections on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent State of the Nation Address to concerns about the South African National Defence Force – something which is arguably outside of the NUM’s purview.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
            <category>ECONOMY</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Itac finds prima facie evidence of flat-rolled product dumping from China, Japan and Taiwan</title>
            <link>https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/itac-finds-prima-facie-evidence-of-flat-rolled-product-dumping-from-china-japan-and-taiwan-2025-02-21</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has determined that there was prima facie evidence that certain flat-rolled products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel of a width of 600 mm or more, imported from China, Japan and Taiwan, were being imported into the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) market at dumped prices, which was causing material injury to the SACU industry. However, the commission decided not to impose provisional measures. This decision was based, among other reasons, on the need to ensure a reliable supply of the subject products, as some items included in the investigation are not produced by the applicant, steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA).]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Clean chemistry company Mattiq has entered into a strategic partnership with precious metals company Heraeus Precious Metals to develop and commercialise advanced electrocatalyst materials for green hydrogen production. The companies will engineer low-iridium catalysts to significantly reduce the amount of this rare and critical raw material for proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyser manufacturing, before expanding into other innovative electrochemical solutions.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Security personnel stationed at the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure’s (DPWI’s) Public Works House, in the central business district (CBD) of Pretoria, foiled efforts on the eve of January 22 by an armed criminal element who descended on the government property, ripping out aluminium and other steel infrastructure, including furniture. The DPWI has expressed deep concern at the brazen conduct of these and other armed criminals, who have routinely been looting government infrastructure, including stealing aluminium, cables, destroying traffic lights, vandalising and looting railway lines and destroying pylons.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <title>Coal ash liability can be asset for multiple industries</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While State-owned electricity utility Eskom produces more than 34-million tons of coal ash a year, only 7% to 10% is beneficiated, with the remaining material accumulating in dumps scattered across Gauteng, the Free State and Mpumalanga, where it poses a significant environmental threat.   The University of the Western Cape Department of Chemistry’s Professor Leslie Petrik has long worked on proving that the residue from coal combustion can be used cost effectively to treat acid mine drainage (AMD), manufacture geopolymer-based cement, roof tiles, bricks and paving stones, as well as lintels, fire-retardant panels and insulation material.  ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Edenvale-based steel supplier SteelTech Trading is one of two companies that will benefit from a significant enterprise and supplier development (ESD) programme, which has been launched by Astec Industries. The ESDs reflect Astec Industries’ commitment to empowering South African businesses and contributing to the country’s fight against unemployment.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The electric steel producers of South Africa are calling on government to keep the export tax on scrap steel in place as it helps ensure the viability of greener domestic steel production by ensuring sufficient scrap availability. Owing to an oversupply of steel in the global and local market, the South African government currently faces a critical decision to either safeguard the future of the entire steel industry or “prop up” multinational steel manufacturing corporation ArcelorMittal’s “outdated and heavily polluting operations”. ]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Multidisciplinary professional firm WSP has completed a comprehensive upgrade of diversified miner South32’s manganese rail infrastructure in the Northern Cape. The project was carried out by WPS’s Project Raptor team, which forms part of the company’s Transport and Infrastructure (T&I) division.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an effort to advance ilmenite up the value curve as titanium dioxide pigment, producer Nyanza Light Metals is progressing the construction of a Richards Bay plant to process ilmenite produced from the mining of heavy mineral sands.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is anticipated that the implementation of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which will take effect in 2026, will significantly affect the South African manufacturing sector, says industry body Manufacturing Circle. The adverse effect can be attributed to, and is compounded by, the high carbon intensity of the country’s electricity production, mostly generated from coal and generally much higher than the carbon intensity of other exporting competitor countries.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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For South African manufactures to maintain exports to clients in the EU they must conform to the soon to be implemented CBAM
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            <title>Artificial demand creating ‘precarious’ scrap market conditions, commentator warns </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's scrap metal sector is overinvested, international trade consultancy XA Global Trade Advisors director Donald Mackay says. "I think we've got a very weird situation, as scrap metal that doesn't really behave like any other product. As demand for any product rises until the supply rises to match it, the prices would normally go up.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
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            <title>Aggressive scrap metal policies should be based on transparent data, not conjecture, expert says</title>
            <link>https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/aggressive-scrap-metal-policies-should-be-based-on-transparent-data-not-conjecture-expert-says-2024-07-30</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Significant alterations to existing scrap metal regulations and outright bans – albeit temporary – on the trade of certain scrap metals should not be made without access to transparent and accurate sector data, international trade consultancy XA Global Trade Advisors director Donald MacKay has said. XA this month launched a new online platform called MyScrapMatters, which is meant to help avoid uninformed decision-making from occurring in future by acting as a centralised hub to provide comprehensive information about the scrap metal industry in South Africa.]]></description>
            <author>Darren Parker</author>
            <category>SCRAP METAL</category>
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