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Additional protection for SA’s embattled steel industry

11th May 2017 Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies has confirmed that additional protection is on the way for South Africa’s embattled steel industry. Engineering News editor Terence Creamer speaks to Creamer Media's Sashnee Moodley about the development. →

April PMI slumps to well below neutral 50 mark

By: Natasha Odendaal 2nd May 2017 After a solid first-quarter performance, the seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) slumped in April 2017. The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) index fell to 44.7 index points from an average of 51.9 during the first quarter. →

New laser source expands possibilities

14th April 2017 International laser systems provider Trotec Laser has expanded the product portfolio of the Galvo marking lasers with a new laser source MOPA. The new laser source allows expanded possibilities for users when marking metals and plastics. With the MOPA laser, users are able to also mark plastics... →

MAKING A MARK Trotec’s MOPA laser source is especially suitable for dark plastics, as its shorter pulses often produce “vivid”, lighter markings, which results in a higher contrast

Kenyan fabricator enters partnership with welding institute

14th April 2017 The Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) facilitated a visit for Kenya-based stainless steel fabricator Desbro Engineering to several South African counterparts, resulting in a training partnership between Desbro and the South African Institute of Welding (SAIW).... →

LESLEY SQUIRES South Africa needs to look at partnership opportunities which encourage investment in manufacturing and infrastructure

Solidarity seeks court intervention to place MEIBC under administration

By: Anine Kilian 31st March 2017 Trade union Solidarity has filed an application to the Labour Court to have the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC) put under administration. Speaking to Engineering News Online on the sidelines of the launch of the union’s Save our Steel campaign on Thursday, Solidarity... →

New agroprocessing-, metals-focused Ipap to be released in April

By: Schalk Burger 31st March 2017 A new Industrial Policy Action Plan (Ipap) focused on supporting the agroprocessing and metals industries, including foundries and the casting sector, will be released in April, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) director-general Lionel October says. “We are aiming to strategically support... →

LIONEL OCTOBER
The DTI is emphasising the importance of the fourth industrial revolution and modernising and upgrading the metals and casting industries

Photo by Duane Daws
LIONEL OCTOBER The DTI is emphasising the importance of the fourth industrial revolution and modernising and upgrading the metals and casting industries

Stainless steel body hopes to boost product demand at event

By: Nadine James 17th March 2017 Industry body and lobby group the Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) hopes to drive demand for stainless steel products by exhibiting at Water Show Africa 2017, which runs alongside Power & Electricity World Africa held at the Sandton Convention Centre on March 28... →

JOHN TARBOTON The Eiffel Tower competition will be launched for the first time at the event and first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris

Seifsa welcomes R95m steel development fund

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 22nd February 2017 The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) on Wednesday welcomed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s R95-million allocation towards the establishment of a Steel Development Fund in the 2017 National Budget. The fund will be controlled by the Industrial Development... →

TFR opens steel hub to encourage rail transport

By: Natasha Odendaal 5th December 2016 Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), in conjunction with ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), Barloworld and Grindrod Logistics, have launched a ‘steel hub’ at TFR’s Elandsfontein yard to migrate steel volumes that are being transported by road back onto rail. Two years after first deliberations, last week... →

Stainless steel industry participants more optimistic about business conditions

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 17th November 2016 Thirty-eight per cent of the 89 Sassda members who participated in the Southern African Stainless Steel Development Association’s (Sassda’s) Short Track survey for October indicated a positive response to the current order situation. Although a slight deterioration on last month’s 40%, Sassda... →

Awards sponsor commits to promoting welding profession

21st October 2016 Welding equipment supplier African Oxygen’s (Afrox’s) sponsorship of the Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) Columbus Stainless Steel Awards 2016 Student category is part of its commitment to promote the welding industry and to encourage the youth to consider this as... →

WELDING CAREERS South Africa continues to struggle with a shortage of young people training to qualify as welders

Duplex stainless steel pumps manufacturer expands internationally

By: Aarifah Nosarka 21st October 2016 South Africa-based slurry pumps manufacturer Hazleton Pumps last month received an order valued at R5-million to manufacture the largest vertical spindle pump ever produced or built in the country. It will be used to pump 2 700 m3/h of phosphoric acid containing solids at a head of 40 m and will... →

SLURRY PUMP The pump will be used to pump 2 700 m3/h of phosphoric acid containing solids at a head of 40 m.

Bioreactors set to double manufacturing capacity

21st October 2016 Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals Rentschler Biotechnologie recently announced the opening of a new facility with an innovative twin system that consists of two stainless steel bioreactors for the manufacturing of cell culture – complemented by... →

BIOREACTORS The system increases Rentschler’s manufacturing capacity for the second time over the course of a year

Stainless steel art becomes part of community upliftment centre

By: Aarifah Nosarka 21st October 2016 The 2016 Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association art category award finalist for the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s Helenvale Resource Centre project is unusual as it is not often that community project budgets allow for art work, let alone those conceived of stainless steel,... →

STERLING ART Kite Boy was made using reflective stainless steel

High-strength-steel automotive lightweighting solution launched

21st October 2016 High strength, low carbon flat-rolled steel and aluminum coated stainless steel producer AK Steel announced the launch of Nexmet, an “innovative family” of high-strength steels for use in automotive lightweighting applications. The announcement in August marked out the products as specifically... →

HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL The product combines high yield and tensile strength to facilitate designs that facilitate lightweighting

Cooler reduces nitrogen oxide emissions from marine engines

21st October 2016 Exhaust gas recirculation coolers manufactured from durable stainless steel are resistant to the effects of temperature and corrosion, according to heat exchangers solution provider Kelvion. There are two stainless steel cooler solutions available for four-stroke engines. High-temperature... →

Getting to grips with grade

21st October 2016 Stainless steel is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 11% chromium content and performs better than ordinary steel in high temperatures and cryogenic applications, according to national distributor of stainless steel 3CR12, aluminum and special steels company Euro Steel. Stainless steel... →

2016 steel awards uptake proves to be the most successful

By: Aarifah Nosarka 21st October 2016 For this year’s Columbus Stainless Steel Awards, the Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) has doubled the number of judging panellists, increased the number of awards and winners, having received more than 50 project entries, which followed the addition of ten more... →

Stainless steel worth more than R500 000 installed at heritage site

By: Aarifah Nosarka 21st October 2016 Since the completion of upgrades to the Opera House in Port Elizabeth – a 2016 Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association Awards finalist in the architecture building and construction category – it has become a significant tourist attraction, architecture company The Matrix Urban... →

HERITAGE SITE The Opera House upgrades included the use of stainless steel, which created a distinctly contemporary and elegant architectural expression to the foyer extension

Ultrahygienic liquid mixer nominated for an award

By: Aarifah Nosarka 21st October 2016 Designer and manufacturer of processing equipment Anderson Engineering’s AndPure Magnetic Mixer, fabricated entirely from stainless steel and used to mix liquid products, is particularly popular in the pharmaceutical industry, owing to its ultra-hygienic properties, says Anderson Engineering MD... →

LIQUID MIXER The design and engineering of the AndPure Magnetic Mixer catered to the need for a solution of ultra-hygienic mixing in the pharmaceutical sector

Steel sector’s sustainability much improved from earlier years

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 6th October 2016 The World Steel Association’s (worldsteel’s) 2016 edition of ‘Sustainable Steel – Policy and Indicators’, has shown only slight declines in the global steel industry’s sustainable development performance. Reporting is voluntary and, in 2015, 159 companies worldwide participated in the study, up... →

Limpopo’s proposed SEZ attracts R40bn investment

23rd September 2016 A significant investment is already expected to be injected into the proposed Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (SEZ) - a boost for the energy and metallurgical industries. A consortium of Chinese investors led by Hong Kong Mining Exchange, will be investing more than R40-billion into an... →

UIF commits nearly R12m to training scheme for Scaw Metals employees

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 19th September 2016 The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has committed R11.9-million to the Manufacturing Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority to fund the training of 325 Scaw Metals employees for six months. This follows the approval of Scaw Metals’ application to the Commission... →

Preventative measures necessary to stop China dumping steel – Solidarity

By: Natasha Odendaal 30th August 2016 Trade union Solidarity on Tuesday raised an alarm about the potential collapse of South Africa’s already-strained steel industry as cheap imports and “unfair trade practices” threaten the sustainability of local steel producers. Presenting its views to the International Trade Administration... →

Possible change in NDT training

By: Simon Sonnekus 15th July 2016 The harmonisation of second and third part assessment certification schemes found in the South African non-destructive testing (NDT) industry could result in continuous skills development and enhanced personnel competence, with companies and employees also retaining a stronger development... →

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING South Africa and many other African countries have sustainable market capacity for only one NDT industrial sector

Global steel production falls 0.1% y/y in May

By: Anine Kilian 21st June 2016 Global steel production, as reported by the 66 member countries to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) fell by 0.1% year-on-year to 139-million tonnes in May. China produced 70.5-million tonnes of steel in May, a 1.8% increase compared with that produced in May 2015. →

Piping fabricators assist in Sasol projects

By: Nadine James 17th June 2016 Pressure vessels and piping fabrication specialists and construction fabrication consortium Hydra Arc Group, is one of the subcontractors assisting with the construction of an air separation unit for energy and chemicals company Sasol. The project’s main contractor, multinational gas and services... →

D DAY Hydra Arc delivered preassembled plant modules to Sasol’s Secunda complex for the Coal Tar Filtration East project

Protecting South Africa’s steel industry

1st June 2016 Creamer Media's Chanel de Bruyn speaks to Engineering News Editor Terence Creamer about measures being taken to protect South Africa’s primary steel sector, as well as measure to ease strain on the downstream steel industry. →

Protecting South Africa’s steel industry

Stainless steel imports problematic – association

By: Nadine James 27th May 2016 Stainless steel industry body Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (sassda) executive director John Tarboton says some imported stainless steel products do not have the correct alloy composition to adequately fulfil their functions. He explains that this conclusion is partially... →

Stainless steel more prominent in construction

27th May 2016 Multinational stainless steel manufacturer Outokumpu has seen more of its products being used in construction products in recent years, owing to changes in technology, increased environmental awareness and economic constraints. Increasingly sophisticated medical equipment requires an equally... →

ÁGUILAS BRIDGE The lightweight stainless steel footbridge was erected over the Cañarete watercourse, at the popular coastal town in the south of Spain

Alloy supplier introduces new welding consumables offering

27th May 2016 Leading supplier of nickel alloys, stainless steel and titanium Multi Alloys has strategically extended its portfolio and entered the welding consumables market with a new range of products. Through a partnership secured with electrical product supplier Lincoln Electric Company late last year,... →

ONE STOP SOLUTION Multi Alloys says Metrode’s range of consumables will enable it to assist customers

Steel strapping enhances conventional tyre wall barrier

By: Nadine James 27th May 2016 Phase 1 of the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit’s revamp comprised the track upgrade, including its lengthening, realignment and resurfacing, as well as the replacement and assembly of the tyre wall barriers, for which Kyalami management used stainless steel band and buckle manufacturer Banding &... →

NOVEL APPROACH Kyalami's new tyre wall assembly method is quicker, easier and relatively cost effective when compared to conventional methods

Company distributes stainless steel safety hinge solution

27th May 2016 The Leuze S420 stainless steel safety hinge switch, available from South African sensor solutions provider Countapulse Controls, offers an ideal solution for mechanically and hygienically challenging applications such as the food and beverage, pharmaceuticals or cosmetics industries. It is... →

LEUZE S420 A reliable and long-lasting solution that combines the safety switch and door hinge functions in a single component

Safety and performance trump cost

27th May 2016 Choosing between fibreglass and steel, and performance versus cost can be bewildering when it comes to installing floor gratings. Frequently, the decision is cost-driven, which can pose a serious threat to safety on site and therefore to employees. Grating and handrail manufacturer Vital... →

VITEX GRATING Vital Engineering is the largest manufacturer and supplier of mild steel, stainless steel and fibre glass gratings in South Africa,

Company launches new range for machining stainless steel

27th May 2016 Last month, tooling manufacturer Dormer Pramet launched a new range of turning, milling, and support tools for machining stainless steel, including larger diameter cutters, and wiper inserts. Dormer Pramet application specialist Ricky Payling explains that the exponential growth of stainless... →

CARBIDE BURRS Dormer Pramet has introduced a new range of carbide burs for machining stainless steel

Steel strapping enhances conventional tyrewall barrier

By: Creamer Media Reporter 28th April 2016 The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit’s novel approach to tyrewall barrier assembly is owed largely to steel strapping products from stainless steel manufacturer and Band It product distributor, Banding & Identification Solutions Africa. Nadine James tells us more. →

Steel strapping enhances conventional tyrewall barrier

Why are South Africa’s steel prices rising?

21st April 2016 Creamer Media’s Samantha Herbst speaks to Engineering News editor Terence Creamer about the prospects for the embattled primary steel sector. →

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