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Sewage and Effluent

New sewage-pump supplier makes progress

5th April 2002 East Rand pump supplier Gresco South Africa is reporting significant progress following its establishment in the local market last year. →

R16-million desalination plant contract secured

5th April 2002 Competing against international contractors, Keyplan has secured the contract to construct a 12 000 m3 per day plant to desalinate effluent arising from Eskom’s Lethabo power station. →

Sewage plants for SA's remote regions

5th April 2002 With the new government White Paper on Sanitation forcing the various relevant authorities to look into the supply of good sanitation to all, the need for affordable and reliable sewage treatment has become more important than ever. →

Wastewater treatment specialist buys a sewage plant business

By: marisa rodrigues 5th April 2002 Specialist supplier of air, gas, fluid handling, combustion and environmental control systems, Howden Africa, has recently acquired the sewage plant business of Protecht Africa. →

Waste-management giant gets BEE partner

By: marisa rodrigues 5th April 2002 One of the biggest waste management companies on the African continent, Enviroserv Holdings, has entered into an agreement with black economic empowerment (Bee) company Lungisa, enabling the latter to acquire an equity interest in four of its divisions. →

Bugs clean paper mill's effluent

5th April 2002 The R600 000 pilot project at Sappi’s Tugela mill, in Kwazulu-Natal, which uses bugs to clean up its effluent, and aims at reducing the mill’s water consumption, is already providing excellent results. →

US knife-gate valves arrive in South Africa

By: Deborah Spicer 16th November 2001 A new range of knife-gate valves became available to the paper and pulp, mining, steel, sugar, automotive and sewerage and effluent industries two months ago. →

Flame traps for explosions

16th November 2001 Johannesburg firm Safurnco offers a range of locally-manufactured tank vents, flame arrestors, vacuum and pressure-relief valves as well as automatic shut-off valves, says marketing director Peter Thieme. →

Struggle for clean water far from over

By: Irma Venter 16th November 2001 The struggle for cleaner water in South Africa is far from over, but the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Dwaf) promises it has several programmes in place to deal with issues that made headlines in Engineering News earlier this year, in an article on the country’s national health... →

Rethink what we drink

10th August 2001 Occasionally a new standard can be a bitter pill, making us throw away old habits. →

SA firm wins Mauritius water contract

14th June 2001 South African company Set Point Turnkey Solutions (SPTS) is undertaking a R2,5-million contract for the water-treatment plant at La Marie in central Mauritius, part of the Marc Aux Vacoas water-supply project. →

Protection against pollution essential

By: System Author 10th November 2000 Environmental protection →