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Charco Cranes, based in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa, is a dynamic, innovative materials handling equipment service provider providing comprehensive sales and service of over-head cranes, hoists... 


Where peristaltic and IoT technology converge
Where peristaltic and IoT technology converge

Reinhard Seidel, Ds500 Product Champion, Verder Pumps South Africa Emerging technology in pump solutions can contribute significantly to enhancing returns in industrial processing and fluid... 


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A circular economy holds the key to the world’s plastic packaging problem

A growing sense of urgency in dealing with the world’s plastic packaging problem has generated strong momentum behind recycling commitments and the use of recycled content in plastic packaging, to... 


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Sustainability for the next century: Looking back to move forward

By Keketso Motjuwadi, Sustainability Lead for Southern Africa at Royal HaskoningDHV The idea of sustainability has evolved a lot since Royal HaskoningDHV started operating in Southern Africa 100... 


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Steps To Becoming The Best Project Manager You Can Be

We all want to be the best at what we do; and in order to do so, it’s essential to constantly evaluate and challenge both our skills and work-related beliefs on a regular basis in order to... 


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Gearing Up For Safer Rail In 2030 – The Annual Rail Safety Conference 2022

The Annual Rail Safety Conference (ARSC) is a conducive forum for rail stakeholders to engage and collaborate on endeavours that will create safe, efficient and reliable solutions to address the... 


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Economy, and SMEs in particular, need Freedom From Dependence

We all know how the story started: warnings from as early as the late-1990s were not heeded, new builds went over time and budget, and they included design flaws. 


Burst mining dam in South Africa: what must be done to prevent another disaster

Originally published by The Conversation at https://theconversation.com/burst-mining-dam-in-south-africa-what-must-be-done-to-prevent-another-disaster-190559 Charles MacRobert, Stellenbosch University 


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Actom at the energy sector’s service

As South Africa and many other African counterparts rapidly adopt renewable energy and advance various renewable energy initiatives, it is important to partner with experienced and quality-focused... 


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Grinding Techniques – Essential partner to the power industry

Electricity is a key component in the South African economy, it provides much needed power to homes, businesses and essential appliances for daily life. Despite being a necessity to many, bouts of... 


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Viscosity Measurement of Ceramic Slurries with the Rotational Rheometer RheolabQC

The Anton Paar RheolabQC makes rheological checks routine and easy. We demonstrate with the example of kaolin suspensions how rheological parameters such as the yield point and viscosity help to... 


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One AECI, for a better world

Securing water sustainability in the mining industry UN global goal 6 aims to ensure clean water and sanitation for all by 2030. 


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New Age Engineering - Transforming lives through training, education and skills transfer

With the shortage of technical skills countrywide, New Age Engineering Solutions is committed to training the youth of South Africa through their Internship, Upskilling and Workplace (IUW) programme.  


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Mitigating the cost and perils of downtime in mining

When it comes to mining, the cost of downtime in a single shift can run into the millions. Here’s how Astron Energy can play a role in minimising the loss of productivity on site. 


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It’s time for our planet to get a second life

The world has woken up to the fact that we have caused immense damage to our only planet and urgent interventions are needed to try stem the tide. We all know this, and it’s the fire behind strict... 


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High-tech launches from SEW-EURODRIVE at Electra Mining

Visitors to this year’s Electra Mining Africa exhibition in Johannesburg will be spoilt for choice as drive component manufacturer SEW-EURODRIVE South Africa unleashes more technology to drive... 


SEW-EURODRIVE South Africa will launch its DriveRadar® solution for remote condition monitoring and maintenance forecasting at Electra Mining Africa.
High tech launches from SEW-Eurodrive at Electra Mining

Visitors to this year’s Electra Mining Africa exhibition in Johannesburg will be spoilt for choice as SEW-EURODRIVE South Africa unleashes more technology to drive productivity and efficiency.  


Containerised continuous electrowinning plant relocates to Impala’s base metals refinery for commercial benchmarking
Containerised continuous electrowinning plant relocates to Impala’s base metals refinery for commercial benchmarking

South African process-engineering start-up, Free Radical Process Design, recently completed an industrial benchmarking exercise on its Rotowinner® containerised demonstration plant, and installed... 


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How are Engineers Helping to Shape the Future?

Engineers have played a major role in building the society that we are living in and they are doing their job in shaping the future. Most of the technology and infrastructure on which our society... 


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Drones for Surveying, Security & Inspection in Mining Projects

The ins and outs of acquiring and operating a drone RPAS Consulting is committed to using the extensive know-how it has honed to help organisations in the mining and related sectors navigate... 


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AEW 2022 is Committed to Exploring and Investing in Africa’s Energy Future while Driving an Enabling Environment

Driven by the market-focused event theme, AEW 2022 places an emphasis on current global energy affairs, gas as a key play and financing exploration.  


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Huawei FusionSolar Channel Partner Summit fosters cooperation to boost Africa’s solar industry

Huawei Digital Power recently held the Huawei FusionSolar Channel Partner Summit 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event, which brought together more than 30 channel partners from across... 


LRQA helps businesses mitigate ever-evolving challenges

Amid an ever-more uncertain macroeconomic environment, the vast majority of leading global organisations must also navigate exacting stakeholder demands, increasing competition and rapidly changing... 


Vehicles from South Africa’s Vryheid Petroleum, who avoided the risks of losing up to $40 000 and 50 000 liters of petroleum with a loss of just one truck, all thanks to telematics
Telematics now is much more than just GPS tracking

For business owners who don’t dig much into digitisation and automation, GPS tracking and telematics may sound like synonyms. Yet, telematics is more than vehicle tracking, and the era of a moving... 


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Huawei launches full range of FusionSolar Smart PV and ESS solutions in Africa

Huawei Digital Power this week launched its full range of FusionSolar Smart PV and Energy Storage System (ESS) solutions to the Sub-Saharan African market at the Solar Show Africa 2022. Renewables... 


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Coca-Cola - Women in Industry

No challenge too daunting for mining engineer-turned MD Flora Jika. Flora Jika is used to taking leaps of faith in her career. Of her latest bold move – taking the reins as Managing Director at... 


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Carl Haycock, CEO of sustainable industrial water solutions company Talbot, reveals why a parched world should look south for solutions

The global water crisis that experts have been forecasting for years has arrived as some of the most verdant parts of the world now find themselves gasping for water. Climate-driven drought... 


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The importance of having a cybersecurity engineer in your team

Having a cybersecurity engineer in your team is becoming more important than ever, as we are seeing a rise in cyberattacks, data breaches, and leakage of sensitive information. Today’s world is... 


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Sarens Siba introduces decentralised depot structure

Crane rental and heavy lifting solutions provider Sarens Siba has changed its business model from a centralised location to a depot-based structure in an effort to better reflect the changing... 


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Rail infrastructure upgrade funding; time to put our Rand where our mouths are.

There’s a sensorily magical moment when you witness a fully locked-and-loaded freight train as it begins to deploy its until-then preserved potential energy, to slowly-yet- decisively haul a... 


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Machining capabilities at Free State factory - probably the largest in SA

South African wear parts manufacturer Vesconite Bearings has increased its Virginia-based factory capacity and ramped up its three-, four- and five-axis machining capability in line with expected... 


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Avoid one key pitfall in construction collaboration

The sheer number of teams, tasks, and timelines in construction projects make close coordination vital to a job well done. 


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Call for funding applications: Hydrogen Economy

The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) was established in terms of the TIA Act, 2008 (Act No. 26 of 2008), with the objective to... 


Selecting the right capability structure for your asset management team

For as long as asset owners have built and operated complex assets, structuring an asset management team that has the right skills and capacity has been difficult for many engineering executives.... 


Prospects for sustainable mining
Prospects for sustainable mining

Mining of the future should be reliable, efficient and sustainable. At the bauma TALK, experts from the fields of science, standard setting and in- dustry shed light on important aspects of this... 


Women in Engineering: A new narrative
Women in Engineering: A new narrative

As Royal HaskoningDHV celebrates 100 years in Southern Africa, CEO Anke Mastenbroek considers some of the most common industry misperceptions that need to go if we’re to #BreaktheBias and create... 


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Superflex Spindle Mounted Points – Accuracy to the point.

Mounted points are always in high demand when precise results are required on difficult-to-access areas. Mounted points are used in conjunction with what are commonly known as Straight grinders or... 


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