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COMPATIBLE AND EFFECTIVE 
VACON 100 AC drives allow its customers to use the most efficient motor for each application, with the ability to run new motor technologies
Drives designed to improve productivity
29th May 2020

Bearings supplier BMG’s VACON 100 alternating current (AC) drives have been designed to save energy, optimise process control and improve productivity in many sectors. Through VACON 100’s... 


IMPROVED MOVEMENT, MAXIMISED SAFETY These electromechanical solutions improve the movement of containers and goods, and maximizes safety, energy efficiency and fuel savings
Electromechanical solutions offered
29th May 2020

Power generation and electromechanical power transmission industry solutions provider Vert Energy – exclusive distributors for electric motor provider Leroy-Somer in Southern Africa – offers... 


Explosion-proof hoists for Kusile coal conveyors
Explosion-proof hoists for Kusile coal conveyors
25th May 2020

Condra has completed manufacture of eight explosion-proof, high-lift hoists – four of them articulated – for Tenova Bateman. All are custom-built, two-speed machines that utilise the modularity of... 


JOHN MANUELL
The full potential of sugar production processes lies in leveraging available data to drive the seamless interoperability among people, assets and production processes
Sector increasingly adopting digitalisation
22nd May 2020 By: Mamaili Mamaila

Technology provider ABB Southern Africa believes that digitalisation can address the production challenges of the sugar industry. 


Pandemic disrupts jewellery business, but recovery on the cards
20th May 2020 By: Simone Liedtke

The drivers for platinum jewellery business growth in 2019 point the way to a post-Covid-19 recovery, the Platinum Guild International’s (PGI’s) 2020 'Platinum Jewellery Business Review (PJBR)' has... 


Surging demand for platinum bar and coin.
Covid-19 impact on platinum market less than expected – WPIC
18th May 2020 By: Martin Creamer

While the Covid-19 pandemic has had a major negative effect on the platinum market — including price, demand and supply — the results for the first quarter of 2020 show the net effect is less than... 


DYNAMIC DUO
The bearing and seal combination introduced by Freudenberg has been validated through extensive testing
Seals company introduces bearing seal combo
15th May 2020

Advanced materials and product supplier Freudenberg Sealing Technologies introduced a machine component that combines a plastic rotating bearing with a seal in a single, precisely matched unit... 


Ballard optimistic that fuel cell demand will rise
Ballard optimistic that fuel cell demand will rise
13th May 2020 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Ballard Power Systems, which develops proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells that use a platinum catalyst as a key component, says mobility solutions have become a focus for the company,... 


Caterpillar announces MineStar Edge mine management technology platform
13th May 2020

Caterpillar is adding a new platform, MineStar Edge, to augment the Cat® MineStar™ Solutions suite of technologies and to align with the way many mining operations manage their businesses. Edge... 


ENERGY HEAVY
South Africa’s industry consumes more than half of the energy used by the industrial sectors in all the remaining SADC States
South Africa has duty to address SADC energy efficiency
8th May 2020 By: Tracy Hancock

South Africa has a duty to make the energy efficiency knowledge accrued through the Industrial Energy Efficiency Project (IEEP) more accessible to the rest of the Southern African Development... 


System designed to monitor machine tool drives
8th May 2020

With timely maintenance and replacement of defective components in machine tools being an important part of the manufacturing process, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in... 


Soft skills critical to leading in heterogeneous business world
8th May 2020 By: Schalk Burger

Technology, connectivity, data and creativity have allowed the development of a range of new capabilities in all industries and improvements in industrial and business processes to the point where... 


Zest WEG pioneers remote witness factory acceptance testing under COVID-19 lockdown
5th May 2020 By: Creamer Media Reporter

In an innovative ‘first’ Zest WEG successfully conducted a remote witnessed factory acceptance test (FAT) on a range of WEG MV VSDs in WEG’s Brazil factory. This pioneering step has shown that the... 


Cinovec lithium project, Germany
Cinovec lithium project, Germany
1st May 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

European Metals Holdings has approved energy group CEZ’s investment in the Cinovec project. 


HANDSOME HANSEN BMG offers a full range of gear units that drive aerators, water screws and brush aerators for the sewage and water treatment sector
Drive systems suited for sewage applications
24th April 2020

Industrial equipment supplier BMG offers solutions for the water, wastewater and sewage sectors, encompassing the supply of quality branded drive systems. BMG supplies an extensive range of drive... 


Czech Republic lithium project now fully funded to construction
23rd April 2020 By: Donna Slater

Shareholders in Australia- and UK-listed European Metals Holdings (EMH) have approved energy group CEZ’s investment in the Cinovec project, paving the way for the lithium and tin project, in Czech... 


LOCALISED SUPPRESSION
I-CAT has several installations of its localised suppression system scheduled for transformers in Mozambique and Ghana
Suppression system averts oil transformer fires
17th April 2020 By: Tracy Hancock

Mitigating risks on oil-filled transformers is a primary concern for various firms that make use of this high-value equipment. Although safety in the engineering of transformers is increasingly... 


Mark Cutifani
Anglo going to great lengths to support SA in Covid-19 hour of need
17th April 2020 By: Martin Creamer

Diversified mining company Anglo American is going to remarkable lengths to support South Africa through the devastating Covid-19 crisis. The London- and Johannesburg-listed company, headed by... 


Clarion Events Africa moves DRC Mining Week to October
6th April 2020

Due to the current status of the global COVID-19 virus and the ban applied on mass gatherings by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Clarion Events Africa (formerly Spintelligent)... 


Dump trucks: New MK-42 to beat them all
6th April 2020

Best of its kind: GHH developed the new MK-42 dump truck with this claim in mind. In fact, in some areas it is the first in its class. The German manufacturer of heavy machinery for civil... 


Mark Cutifani
Anglo going to great lengths to support South Africa in its Covid-19 hour of need
6th April 2020 By: Martin Creamer

Diversified mining company Anglo American is going to remarkable lengths to support South Africa through the devastating Covid-19 crisis. The London- and Johannesburg-listed company, headed by... 


Weighing up the advantages of overhead crane refurbishment
27th March 2020

Crane manufacturer and refurbishment specialist Condra is urging customers to carefully weigh the pros and cons when considering replacing or refurbishing an overhead crane that is nearing the end... 


DAVE COFFEY
Regional cooperation is important to ensure sustainable automotive industrialisation that benefits of all participating countries
African automotive industrialisation requires political will, ecosystem
27th March 2020 By: Schalk Burger

Increasing the motorisation rate in Africa from about 42 vehicles per 1000 people to at least the world average of 180 vehicles per 1000 people provide an opportunity for industrialisation,... 


PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY
Sumitomo Dunlop has grown its local tyre production and capacity on the certainty created by original equipment manufacturers’ plans
Policy certainty to support automotive manufacturing growth
27th March 2020 By: Schalk Burger

The broad support for the Automotive Masterplan 2035 by companies across the value chain and the certainty that it creates supports local vehicle-manufacturing growth and, consequently, for the... 


CORE VALUE 
Innovation is necessary for survival in the current sluggish economic environment
Necessity drives drill bit innovation
20th March 2020 By: Darren Parker

Drilling solutions provider Lesedi Drilling and Contract Mining, in collaboration with its subsidiary, drill bit supplier Thriftline, has developed a removable reaming shell for its diamond drill... 


CALLIE VAN VUUREN
Smartphone applications can also be used to detect and locate nearby routers that may have been flown in by a drone
Drones a corporate espionage threat
20th March 2020 By: Khutso Maphatsoe

Although drones have been a positive business decision for various industries, such as agriculture, where drones are used for automated farming, drones can also pose a threat to companies when they... 


WIDE SCOPE
SMS group will present solutions for the full range of manufacturing materials for tube and wire products
Company to present innovations at trade fair
20th March 2020

Metallurgical industry plant and integrated systems provider SMS group will present its new plant concepts and innovations at the Tube and Wire Trade Fair taking place from March 30 to April 3,... 


Legoa Salgada volcanic massive sulphide project, Portugal
Legoa Salgada volcanic massive sulphide project, Portugal
20th March 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

A preliminary economic assessment has demonstrated Legoa Salgada to be a long-term, economically viable project. 


Polymetal CEO Vitaly Nesis
Stronger gold drives Russia's Polymetal profit to record high
4th March 2020 By: Reuters

Polymetal, one of Russia's largest gold and silver producers, said on Wednesday its 2019 net earnings rose 36% to a record high of $483-million due to stronger global gold prices and higher... 


Lithium miner SQM warns of further slide in prices in 2020, impact of coronavirus
3rd March 2020 By: Reuters

Chilean miner SQM, the world's No. 2 lithium producer, saw profits tumble in the last quarter of 2019 and warned that early 2020 sales in China, a key market for the battery metals used in electric... 


Position paper to chart way forward for electric vehicle market in South Africa
Position paper to chart way forward for electric vehicle market in South Africa
28th February 2020 By: Irma Venter

South Africa has a tiny electric vehicle (EV) market compared with the rest of the world. Just more than 400 – 407, to be precise – hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles (BEVs)... 


Mariam Kane-Garcia leads the way at Total South Africa
Mariam Kane-Garcia leads the way at Total South Africa
27th February 2020

Inspiring women to lead in the energy sector and industry at large to improve the imbalance of representation, is an ambition to be realised by all, according to Mariam Kane-Garcia, the newly... 


BHP reports solid results for interim period
BHP reports solid results for interim period
18th February 2020 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Diversified miner BHP has reported a 20% interest in profits after tax and a 7% increase in revenue for the half year ended December. “We delivered a strong set of half-year results, grounded in... 


Gold drives South Africa’s mining production higher
13th February 2020 By: Simone Liedtke

Mining production in South Africa increased by 1.8% year-on-year in December, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on Thursday. The largest contributors to this were gold, with output up... 


Higher gold price drives Evolution records
Higher gold price drives Evolution records
12th February 2020 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Gold miner Evolution Mining has reported record underlying net profits, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) and cash flows for the half-year ended December.... 


MOVING TECHNOLOGY 
Incorporating the freely programmable MOVI-PLC into the HandlingKinematics solution allows for greater flexibility
Automated solution supplied to OEM
7th February 2020 By: Darren Parker

Drive engineering and automation company SEW-Eurodrive has supplied its highly configurable HandlingKinematics to a local original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) of concrete brick, block and paving... 


IN THE TRENCHES
Dire living and working conditions found in the Democratic Republic of Congo drive the artisanal and illegal mining sector
Cobalt demand drives illegal trade
7th February 2020 By: Halima Frost

Increased global demand for cobalt is spurring mining activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), specifically illegal and artisanal operations. The southern point of the DRC is reported to... 


BIG FAN
A cooling unit had to be installed to the drives because of the extreme temperatures they would encounter in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Drive package delivered to greenfield mine
7th February 2020

The last of nine units of a comprehensive drive package were successfully delivered to a major greenfield copper mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by drive and automation... 


Coronavirus drives Alrosa to shift diamond sales from Hong Kong
5th February 2020 By: Reuters

Russia's Alrosa, the world's largest diamond mining company, will hold its March auctions in Moscow and Israel after Hong Kong postponed two jewellery shows because of the coronavirus outbreak, the... 


W kicks off mining at second tungsten operation
5th February 2020 By: Mariaan Webb

Aim-listed W Resources on Wednesday announced the start of operations at its second tungsten mine – Régua, in northern Portugal – following the release of an updated resource estimate. The Joint... 


Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani
Anglo’s Cutifani stresses the need for sustainable mining
3rd February 2020 By: Simone Liedtke

Despite mining’s contribution to almost every aspect of modern life, the industry is still seen as an industry “that takes more than it gives”, Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani lamented in his... 


PERFECT PANEL The installation included control panels, which offered a new human-machine interface
Successful installation creates further opportunities
31st January 2020 By: Halima Frost

Subsequent to the successful installation of an automated control solution at a confectionary manufacturer, in KwaZulu-Natal, engineering solutions provider Hybrid Automation has seen an uptick in... 


Company leverages off diverse industrial supplier’s strengths
31st January 2020

As part of automotive consumable products supplier Hudaco Group, Bearings International (BI) is able to leverage synergies across a broad range of companies, meaning it can offer a complete product... 


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