Mar 5, 2019 | Automotive, KZN Industrial & Business News
WITHIN the next few years, almost all newly-manufactured cars (90%) will have built-in functionality that can contribute to a cleaner environment. Stop-start technology reduces fuel consumption and harmful emissions by reducing the amount of time the engine spends...
Mar 5, 2019 | Engineering, Food & Beverage, KZN Industrial & Business News
BY changing to NSK Molded-Oil mounted-unit inserts, an international drinks producer has overcome repeated problems of premature insert failures on the drive system of four vital sorting conveyors. That’s according to NSK, which said the move has improved service life...
Mar 4, 2019 | Engineering Supplies, KZN Industrial & Business News
IN order to boost the first stage roughing operation on newly cast aluminium parts for the automotive industry, cutting tool and tooling systems specialist Sandvik Coromant is introducing its M5Q90 tangential milling cutter. Designed to complete ‘cubing’ (first...
Mar 4, 2019 | Food & Beverage, KZN Industrial & Business News, Packaging
TRACEABILITY in the packaging industry forms a very important aspect of the manufacturing process. Over the years the most common method of marking fast moving consumer goods has been ink-jet, but laser marking has been increasingly making inroads in this industry....
Mar 4, 2019 | Automotive, Business Tech, ICT In Industry, KZN Industrial & Business News
MANUFACTURING in the automotive industry is very complex with many production variables and processes. And like many other manufacturing industries it faces serious challenges with increasing global competition, inherent inefficiencies and variance in quality. In a...
Mar 4, 2019 | Automotive, KZN Industrial & Business News
THE South African automotive industry is growing and along with it the need for high quality fasteners. Historically, most fasteners used in the automotive industry in South Africa have been imported because there had been no other option, until recently. Now, OEMs...
Mar 4, 2019 | Automotive, KZN Industrial & Business News
CREATIVE Graphics International (CGI), a graphics and badging supplier to the automotive industry, is offering what it says is the next generation of 3D badging, Kromex. According to CGI, the new badging technology is used across a variety of sectors including the...
Mar 4, 2019 | Forestry, Pulp & Paper, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
THE Taylor range of materials handling equipment, distributed exclusively in South Africa by BLT World, encompasses the TXLS series log stackers, designed to efficiently handle a full log load, from truck or rail, in a single pass. “These robust log stackers, which...
Mar 4, 2019 | Forestry, Pulp & Paper, KZN Industrial & Business News
HPE Africa recently supplied a Hyundai R210LC-7 excavator to Kanyi Ilanga Forestry Services, which was converted into a versatile HT shovel yarder by Hintech Manufacturing, to cope efficiently with demanding uphill and downhill logging operations. Experts from HPE...
