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Avoid extended downtime due to inadequate preparation prior to start-up after lockdown
By: Creamer Media Reporter 8th May 2020 Evaluate the risk the shutdown posed to Critical Electrical Equipment (CEE) before you start up your plant after lockdown. During normal circumstances, a plant shutdown is a thoroughly planned event where several processes are precisely orchestrated to take equipment out of service, maintained... →
KwaZulu-Natal vital for bearing distributor growth
By: Mamaili Mamaila 1st May 2020 Power transmission products distributor Bearings International (BI) has earmarked KwaZulu-Natal as a key growth area for its business going forward. →
Oil little changed after historic Opec+ deal to cut production
By: Bloomberg 13th April 2020 Oil surrendered gains after rising in early trading as investors weighed whether an unprecedented deal by the world’s biggest producers to cut output would would be enough to steady a market pummeled by the coronavirus. Futures in London were down 0.4% after the Opec+ alliance agreed to a plan... →
Heat exchanger training offered by company
By: Darren Parker 10th April 2020 Heat exchanger company Protherm Systems is planning to host its first heat exchanger training course in the coming months, in Gauteng, once the Covid-19 national lockdown has been lifted. The specific date and venue will be communicated to all interested parties and on Protherm System’s website... →
Industry experts come together on tailings dams
27th March 2020 Safer tailings storage facilities (TSFs) – or tailings dams – can be achieved when mine owners, contractors and engineering consultants work closely together, according to SRK Consulting senior geotechnical engineer Linda Spies. Speaking after a recent Southern African Institute of Mining and... →
Lawyers question whether Nersa’s concurrence timeline truly reflects power-shortfall urgency 
By: Terence Creamer 24th March 2020 Project finance and energy specialists from a leading domestic law firm have questioned whether the timetable outlined by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for providing its concurrence with two Ministerial determinations for new power generation “truly reflects the urgency of... →
Public Enterprises, business rescue practitioners battle over SA Express
By: Rebecca Campbell 20th March 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has expressed, in a statement, its concern about the direction that the business rescue process for State-owned regional airline SA Express was taking. “[T]he Business Rescue Practitioners [BRPs] are planning to ‘ground’ the airline without first... →
Seifsa, Minerals Council react positively to SoNA commitments
By: Marleny Arnoldi 14th February 2020 The mining and metals and engineering sectors have mostly welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plans around energy and infrastructure, following his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Thursday night. The Minerals Council South Africa said in a statement that it was encouraged by the... →
Minerals Council calls for intervention to ‘salvage and revive’ South Africa
By: Simone Liedtke 14th January 2020 The Minerals Council South Africa has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa and other government leaders to “salvage and revive” South Africa’s economy after noting the “increasing urgency of a range of critical steps needed”. In a statement released ahead of the Business Economic Indaba (BEI), which... →
Power cuts may last the weekend if rain persists
By: Reuters 6th December 2019 Many South Africans could be without electricity this weekend if rain continues, state power utility Eskom said on Friday, after announcing it would cut up to 4 000 MW of power as wet weather makes it difficult for power stations to use coal. Coal handling problems have led to generating units... →
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