The fourth industrial revolution and the paradigm-shifting effect it will have on all industries has been a hot topic for years. While there have certainly been sceptics, some of the digital technologies that have emerged promise to unlock profound efficiencies, transparency and competitiveness. Huge strides have been made in digitisingContinue Reading
South Africa has a coastline of over 2,850 kilometres and an extensive, complex and vastly expensive infrastructure has developed along the coast over the past 100 years. This ranges from luxury houses at coastal holiday resorts and quaint villages, to rail and industrial infrastructure in the form of warehouses, cranes,Continue Reading
ArcelorMittal said that the winding down process would be complete by the end of the month. The steel giant last year announced plans to close the plant which is a critical economic driver along the West Coast with around 600 permanent employees and 500 sub-contractors. Despite numerous efforts to save theContinue Reading
Africa focused energy company Kibo Energy has acquired 345 ha of land adjacent to its Benga power plant project, in Mozambique’s Tete province. Alongside hosting a 150 MW to 300 MW thermal power plant, which is being developed as part of a joint venture agreement with local energy company TermoeléctricaContinue Reading
Sweden-based Atlas Copco has expanded its WEDA submersible dewatering pump range with the addition of the S50 Sludge pump, which was said to be ideal for rental. Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Product Manager, Atlas Copco Power and Flow division, said, “The WEDA S50 is an ideal pump for rental companies and general contractorsContinue Reading
Atlas Copco Compressors has bundled some of its most popular air and nitrogen products into five packages to make ordering and financing easier. The new packages are being offered in an effort to help customers take advantage of finance rates, in addition to helping customers which might be suffering withContinue Reading
n most of Nigeria’s cities, there are visible piles of refuse that have built up on roads, river banks and swampy land. These waste dumps smell bad and are breeding grounds for germs that cause diseases. Perhaps less well-known is the electronic waste that’s becoming a serious problem in partsContinue Reading
AECI has established a ‘filling station’ for the City of Tshwane to supply safe drinking water to the water-stressed Hammanskraal community amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative, which builds on a R3-million investment made in November 2019 to provide safe drinking water to a number of clinics and schools inContinue Reading
he Covid-19 pandemic will have long-term ramifications, including permanent change in the South African stainless steel industry, Southern African Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) acting executive director Michel Basson says. “The stainless steel industry could be on the brink of taking an S-curve upwards, owing to the crisis, which may result inContinue Reading
In underground mining environments, gas boosters are often working behind the scenes to pressurize gases for recharging rebreather cylinders, fire suppression, environmental cooling or gas scavenging. Traditional pneumatic and hydraulic gas boosters have some inherent limitations. Pneumatic units work well to boost pressures at intermittent, low-flow rates, but are noisyContinue Reading
