Eastern Cape Industrial & Business News
Advanced metals 3D printing for mass production
HP recently launched its Metal Jet, which it describes as the world’s most advanced 3D printing technology for the high-volume manufacturing of production-grade metal parts....
Maritime training ploughing scarce skills back into the Eastern Cape
THE Port of Ngqura announced the intake of seven marine cadets recently. They represent a group of ten cadets, out of a national port pipeline of 31, who have just completed...
Alternative power solutions to tackle load shedding
FROM mines and factories to the small business and residential sectors, Cummins says it has a full range of alternative power solutions that it believes is particularly suited...
Don’t compete, be unique: advice for SMMEs as loadshedding bites
SMALL, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa should see challenges such as the recent spate of loadshedding by Eskom as an opportunity to create solutions...
Corruption clampdown: minister announces sweeping changes for infrastructure projects
IN an effort to root out corruption in the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), Minister Gugile Nkwinti has announced sweeping changes in the management of major...
Debt shocker for middle-income consumers
SOUTH Africa’s middle-income consumers on average spend a whopping 25% of their take home monthly income to pay interest accumulated on debt. This is according to FNB’s...
EL cruise season ends with Scandinavian stunner’s maiden voyage to SA
THE arrival of the state-of-the-art Viking Sun cruise liner at the Port of East London on Monday, 15 April, closed the port’s 2018-19 cruise season on a high note, with 830...
Expo to focus on impact of industrial automation on manufacturing
THE Manufacturing Indaba 2019, in collaboration with The Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Measurement and Control (SAIMC), will provide an Automation Pavilion for...
How to manage political risks in Sub-Saharan Africa
MORE than two-thirds of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk from strikes, riots and other types of civil unrest with a quarter of them at danger of sabotage and...
PE pupils revved up at possibilities of auto industry careers
FORD Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) recently hosted its annual Careers Day for Grade 11 and 12 learners at its Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria, and Struandale...
