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Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to form a joint working committee with the city for “the urgent devolution” of passenger rail services to the metro. The...
Industries worldwide continue to demonstrate their commitment to net-zero by 2050. For many energy-intensive industries, the data centre sector could be part of the solution to decarbonising and...
The Australian government has launched a discussion paper around its new A$392-million Industry Growth Programme (IGP) asking advice on how to design and operate the programme to support industry...
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has welcomed the commitment expressed by the national Department of Transport's director-general James Mlawua to gazette the National Land Transport Strategic...
The federal government has released a consultation paper on detailed proposals that will help Australian companies and investors to maximise economic opportunities in the shift to cheaper, cleaner...
This year’s milestone 45th SAPICS Conference - Africa’s leading education, knowledge sharing and networking event for the supply chain profession - was a huge success, the organisers have...
As developed economies seek to diversify their sources of critical minerals away from China and Russia, South Africa has the “clear potential” to strengthen its position as a key supplier of...
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South Africa’s central bank said that enhancements to its quarterly projection model delivered more accurate forecasts of its benchmark interest rate and various measures of inflation. The South...
SKF has extended its Microlog Analyzer family of data collection devices with the recent introduction of the new SKF Microlog Analyzer dBX. This powerful tool offers faster measurement collection...
By Arjen de Bruin, Managing Director at OIM Consulting Over the past twenty years or so years, change has happened at a rapid pace, thanks to the advent of technology and a turbulent global economy...
A recent survey shows there are about 30GW of wind energy projects in various stages of development. While South Africa has the skills to support the rollout of this generation capacity, the lack...
As the City of Cape Town investigates the viability of building up its own infrastructure and managing an independent passenger rail network, it has expressed concern about government’s having...
The civil engineering sector presents daily challenges that engineers, regardless of their experience, must overcome. These challenges can be technical, contractual or even outside their comfort...
Explosives and blasting solutions company Orica released a new integrated digital solution for the quarry market to streamline and optimise blasting operations in April. BlastIQ Quarry is a smart...
This week we profile Themba Baloyi, MD of Voith Turbo South Africa, which is engaged in the marketing, assembly, service and sales support of engineering products in mining and metals, paper, rail,...
“Bad ideas matter. They have their own coherence and own power”. These words are attributable to Timothy Snyder, a US historian who specialises in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the...
Down a steep dirt road from the Baishi Huashan lithium mine in southern China, trucks laden with silvery grey ore rumble towards a cluster of smelters in the valley below that have sprung up to...
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to form a joint working committee with the city for “the urgent devolution” of passenger rail services to the metro. The...
SKF has extended its range of data collection devices with a new model that it says offers faster measurement collection and greater diagnostic power. The new SKF Microlog Analyzer dBX tool can be...
Industry body Cement & Concrete South Africa (CCSA) will host its second biennial Young Concrete Researchers, Engineering and Technologists Symposium (YCRETS) from July 12 to 14. The event is aimed...
What if government policies were like a musician’s song catalogue? You would expect the songs that made it on to the album to be the musician’s best efforts. They would have to be even more so if...
As of the of April 1 this year, any Certificate of Conformity (CoC) issued by paper is no longer considered valid. South African Qualification and Certification Committee for Gas (SAQCC Gas) has...
Global critical minerals producer Nyrstar has made a case for Australia to add zinc and other industrial metals to the critical minerals list, and to provide support for an increase in the...
Wood products, paper and pulp company Sappi Southern Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have launched the Sappi Chair in Climate Change and Plantation Sustainability. Professor...
Urgent action is required to combat plastic pollution and its detrimental impacts on human health, the economy and the environment, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy...
JSE-listed paper and packaging company Mondi has advised that it is withdrawing from an agreement to sell its most significant facility in Russia, the Joint Stock Company Mondi Syktyvkar, together...
JSE-listed packaging company Nampak has installed a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (SEM) in its research and development (R&D) division in Cape Town. The company made the investment...
Industrial equipment supplier BMG reports that its NORD Maxxdrive-XT industrial gearboxes, launched at the Electra Mining trade show in 2022, have been well received by leaders in bulk logistics,...
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is convinced that mining companies can supplement State-owned Eskom’s supply of electricity, and that this would be critical for narrowing the...
Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso bemoans, in her latest weekly newsletter, the months of waiting for visa decisions and how it is impacting on businesses’ ability to make progress...
Digital solutions can help South Africa improve service delivery and strengthen governance, says Altron Karabina senior specialist: key accounts manager Murunwa Mashamba. Critical to the success of...
JSE-listed packaging company Nampak has instituted a vacancy freeze, will reduce headcount across the entire organisation, will reduce its head office and has reduced absolute salaries to stabilise...
Early in May, the South African Reserve Bank started distributing upgraded bank notes and coins, with the coins depicting new sets of plants and animals for the first time since 1989. The upgraded...
Diversified real estate investment trust (Reit) Emira Properties has implemented several community, social and environmental projects at its regional Wonderpark shopping centre property in...
The resources sector has welcomed initiatives from the Victorian government to regulate the minerals industry but has lamented the lack of support for critical minerals development and additional...
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The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) is a professional institute with local and international links aimed at assisting members source information about technological...
Building on decades of experience supporting customers to optimize their maintenance activities based on condition monitoring, SKF is today releasing to the market the new SKF Microlog Analyzer...
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Pulp and paper group Sappi has reported a dip in profit to $69-million in the quarter ended March 31, compared with the profit of $188-million reported for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. CEO...
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