Oct 9, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, Education & Training, Environmental Management & Control, Events, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Heating, Cooling & Ventilation, KZN Industrial & Business News, Manufacturing, SMME Development & Support
SAB KickStart, one of the country’s longest-running and most successful youth development programmes recently announced it top 21 finalists. Five of these young entrepreneurs featured below hail from KwaZulu-Natal. Thabang Mofekeng Thabang Mofokeng has been the...
Sep 28, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Environmental Management & Control, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Water & Effluent Management
AS the voice of Nelson Mandela Bay Business, we recognise the need to create an enabling environment for our current investors, while attracting new investors. Whilst lobbying still constitutes a large part of what the Business Chamber does, we have introduced an...
Jul 6, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Environmental Management & Control, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, Packaging
THE Paper Recycling Association of South Africa (PRASA) chose World Environment Day yesterday, 5 June 2018, to announce the paper recycling rates for 2017. Last year the paper recycling industry along with conscientious consumers and thousands of collectors kept 1,3...
Jul 4, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Environmental Management & Control, Food & Beverage, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Packaging, Plastics & Rubber
LITTLE if any of the money raised by the plastic bag levy since its introduction 15 years ago has gone towards improving the environment or creating jobs, despite promises made by the government at the time, Pick n Pay Chairman Gareth Ackerman said yesterday. Speaking...
Jun 13, 2018 | Environmental Management & Control, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, KZN Industrial & Business News, Manufacturing, Power Generation
FAST-moving consumer goods manufacturer, Unilever, has unveiled a R50-million biomass boiler at its Maydon Wharf factory in Durban that it says will reduce CO2 emissions, waste-to-landfill, and ultimately the amount of electricity used at the facility. The event...
Jun 6, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Environmental Management & Control, Food & Beverage, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Metals & Alloys, Packaging
THE metal packaging industry is poised for growth and is on the cusp of an exciting era as efforts to introduce new technology and improve this packaging material’s environmental credentials are starting to bear fruit. That was the message from Kishan Singh, Chief...
Jun 6, 2018 | Automotive, Chemical & Allied Industries, EC Industrial & Business News, Environmental Management & Control, Mining & Quarrying, Petrochemicals, Water & Effluent Management
THE importance of protecting the quality of South Africa’s groundwater came under the spotlight recently when contamination expert Richard O’Brien from SRK Consulting’s Cape Town office shared compliance lessons with leading industry players at a breakfast seminar...
May 16, 2018 | Environmental Management & Control, Food & Beverage, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, KZN Industrial & Business News, Packaging, Plastics & Rubber, SMME Development & Support, Social Development
A record 2.15 billion plastic bottles, weighing in at 93 235 tonnes, were recycled by the South African PET plastic industry in 2017 – saving 578 000m3 of landfill and creating 64 000 income-generating opportunities in the process. This is according to national...
May 16, 2018 | Automotive, Consulting Engineers & Project Management, Electrical & Electronics, Environmental Management & Control, Green Industries & Renewable Energy, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, KZN Industrial & Business News, Manufacturing, Metals & Alloys
WHEN water specialist company NuWater developed a two megalitre desalination plant at a smelter plant in KwaZulu-Natal, Rockwell Automation Sub-Saharan Africa supplied automation products and conducted programming and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) development for use...
