Jul 18, 2018 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, EC Industrial & Business News, Education & Training, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Manufacturing, Projects, SMME Development & Support
THE Coega Development Corporation (CDC) has welcomed the recent news from Statistics South Africa that jobs numbers have grown over the past quarter. According to the Quarterly Employment Statistics report, jobs increased from 9.78 million in December 2017 to 9.83...
Jul 18, 2018 | Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry, Import / Export, Manufacturing
INTEREST and investment in disruptive technologies have increased significantly in recent years, with a handful of local firms in the automotive sector embracing these innovations. Automotive glass manufacturer Shatterprufe is positioning itself as one of these...
Jul 18, 2018 | Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News, Government & Municipal, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
THE new vessel repair facilities in the Port of PE were not only developed as a positive step towards a thriving vessel maintenance and marine engineering hub, but also to boost the local economy in the long term. That’s according to Project Manager Pieter-Ben van...
Jul 18, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Government & Municipal, SMME Development & Support, Social Development
THE transformation of the country’s rural areas and townships into beehives of productive economic activities and manufacturing will come under the spotlight at the national summit in East London this week. The National Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Rural and...
Jul 18, 2018 | Automotive, Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Plastics & Rubber
CONTITRADE Africa, the retail division of Continental Tyre South Africa, is continuing its expansion of the BestDrive dealer network across South Africa and the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and plans to welcome 17 new dealers during 2018. “Our aggressive network...
Jul 18, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
THE key barriers to entry in the IoT space – battery power and cost – are falling away with the arrival in South Africa of low-cost, low-power solutions. “While machine to machine (M2M) solutions have been in use in some sectors in South Africa for several years, many...
Jul 18, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Automotive, EC Industrial & Business News, Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Manufacturing, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
IN what’s being hailed as a first for South Africa, Hytec Group companies Tectra Automation and Hytec collaborated to help a motor vehicle OEM slash energy costs at its Port Elizabeth engine plant. This was achieved with the installation of a Sytronix Variable Speed...
Jul 18, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Finance & Investment, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
TRANSNET Port Terminals (TPT) recently welcomed one of the largest container vessels into the Ngqura Container Facility. The MSC Savannah is a container ship built in 2011 with a gross tonnage of 91 621 tons and length of 335m. It was on its way to the Far East,...
Jul 18, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Industrial Cleaning, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
HAVING outgrown its previous Port Elizabeth branch, Goscor Lift Truck Company (GLTC) has moved into larger premises that it says allows it to better service its ever-growing customer base. Branch manager Mike Burley (pictured) said the new branch at the corner of...
