Jan 23, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Education & Training, Petrochemicals
THE Eastern Cape’s top Engen Maths and Science School (EMSS) matric graduate, Libhongo Mko lives by the philosophy that hard work and dedication will open doors. It is this belief that saw him emerge as the leading learner in the Eastern Cape EMSS classes with five...
Jan 23, 2019 | Automotive, EC Industrial & Business News, Engineering, Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Industrial Cleaning, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Transport & Logistics
IN what it describes as a world-first, NSK has developed a load detection device that prevents the overloading of commercial vehicles and improves safety. Offering easy fitment to the suspension of vans, light trucks and other commercial vehicles, the device enables...
Jan 23, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, EC Industrial & Business News, Government & Municipal, Water & Effluent Management
IN more gloomy news for Eastern Cape farmers battling the prolonged drought, the province’s combined dam levels have dropped again over the past week. “The Eastern Cape dam levels have decreased by a fraction from 58,6% to 58,0%,” said Department of Water and...
Jan 23, 2019 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Finance & Investment
WHILE small to medium enterprise (SME) owners may not have a great deal of control over South Africa’s broader economic issues, they do have control over how they plan and manage their finances, says EasyBiz Technologies Managing Director, Gary Epstein. “The failure...
Jan 23, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Finance & Investment, ICT In Industry, Manufacturing
WHILE the South African economy has been underperforming for a number of years, the first positive signs of turnaround started to become visible by the second quarter of 2018, and by the end of the third quarter, data supplied by Statistics South Africa showed that...
Jan 23, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, Automotive, Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry, Transport & Logistics
GETTING to and from work is expensive and time-consuming and gridlock is problem in most of South Africa’s big cities. This is the problem Gugulethu Mhlanga and Simphiwe Kuse set out to solve with a clever app that they hope will transform the lives of thousands of...
Jan 23, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, EC Industrial & Business News, Education & Training
AGCO, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, unveiled its pioneering Farm in a Box (FIAB) initiative for Africa at Germany’s International Green Week, held in Berlin from 18 to 27 January 2019. “With this brand-new concept, we aim to take...
Jan 23, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Electrical & Electronics, ICT In Industry, Metals & Alloys, Power Generation, Security
South Africa is experiencing almost 200 instances of cable theft per day. The scourge costs the country an estimated R10 billion per year loss in lost productivity. Although many cable thieves are apprehended, just seven percent of offenders are prosecuted because of...
Dec 5, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Plastics & Rubber
A collaboration between Plastics SA, Seadog Sport and DPI Plastics has led to the creation of a new retrieval project aimed at reducing the amount of plastics sticks and straws found on the beaches of South Africa. John Kieser, Sustainability Manager at Plastics SA,...
