Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry
AGRIGULTURE-focussed tech start-up, Aerobotics has expanded its Series A funding round from $2 million (R29 million). The funding round expansion came through a signed deal with Paper Plane Ventures and brings Aerobotics total funding to $4.6 million. The Cape Town...
Mar 29, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Pumps, Valves, Pipes & Fittings
A new TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculator offers proof that Bredel hose pumps can save time, money and materials in challenging, abrasive fluid handling applications. Developed by Bredel, a brand of Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, the new calculator...
Mar 29, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control
CONTROL valve testing has traditionally meant using complicated testers that require extensive training, the removal of the valve, and often one-to-two hours of test time on the bench. According to Comtest that’s about to change with the arrival of Fluke’s new 710 mA...
Mar 29, 2019 | Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News, Education & Training, ICT In Industry, Social Development, Telecommunications
DIGITAL literacy in the Eastern Cape received a significant boost recently when local outreach programme Fundanii, received the backing of search giant Google and software heavyweight SAP to further their work in Mdantsane near East London. Fundanii is a digital...
Mar 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Sugar, Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, EC Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
TODAY, most machinery available on the market is good but what differentiates a brand is the company itself and the level of service it delivers. That’s according to Natie Ferreira, co-owner of BF Hire, who said this was the reason he and his partner Marius Brink had...
Mar 29, 2019 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, EC Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
A major trenching and loading contract has seen plant-hire company Mpeke Plant Hire acquire its latest batch of equipment from Bobcat Cape Town. Mpeke Plant Hire started off in 2014 as an enterprise development initiative. However, since 2017 it started renting out...
Mar 29, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Electrical & Electronics, Engineering, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Power Generation
AS part of its ongoing growth plans, Zest WEG Group will continue to focus on opportunities in more African countries, according to its new chief executive officer, Siegfried Kreutzfeld (pictured). With 40 years of service in the global WEG Group, Kreutzfeld brings a...
Mar 29, 2019 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, EC Industrial & Business News, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
GOSCOR Earth Moving (GEM), the official distributor of SANY, the fifth-largest construction and related equipment manufacturer in the world, has added the high-performance SMG200 motor grader to its line-up. “The SMG200 offers maximum power and superior levelling...
Mar 29, 2019 | Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News, Pumps, Valves, Pipes & Fittings, Water & Effluent Management
VEOLIA Water Technologies South Africa recently supplied three Potable Water Treatment Plants (PWTP) to Mpumalanga’s capital city, Mbombela. “Our Water Techno Packages are fast becoming very popular water treatment solutions across South Africa,” said Nishaal...
