Feb 1, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Transport & Logistics
THE Hino 300 and 500 models with automatic transmission are making a positive impression on Riaan Harmse, who is the fleet logistics controller for Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), the largest Coca-Cola bottler in South Africa. “We haven’t had many Hino...
Feb 1, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Heating, Cooling & Ventilation, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Occupational Health, Packaging, Safety, Transport & Logistics
THE quality, shelf life and saleability of consumables are dependent on several factors, including their freshness. Linked to this is the absence of pollutants and unsafe micro-organisms. Creating favourable environmental conditions with temporary climate control...
Jan 14, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, Automotive, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, ICT In Industry, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
TRANSNET Port Terminals (TPT) has rolled-out an automated Service Instruction Entry (SIE) system which uses a portal and/or electronic data interface (EDI) to all its Durban Automotive customers, abandoning the manual processing of paperwork for the export, import and...
Jan 14, 2019 | Automotive, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
BUILD It Pinetown, one of 350 retail stores in the SPAR Group Ltd South Africa stable, mixes paint, cuts glass and boards, reads business plans and provides home deliveries for its customers. These deliveries are currently being performed by two FAW trucks, each...
Jan 14, 2019 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
FROM January 1, Konecranes and Demag in South Africa are one legal entity under the new name of Konecranes and Demag (Pty) Ltd. This is in line with a Legal Entity Consolidation of both companies which sees the brands, skills, knowledge and operations coming together...
Jan 14, 2019 | Electrical & Electronics, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
BATTERY Power Industries (BPI) provided the battery drive system for Manitou Southern Africa’s first electric telehandler. Manitou’s battery driven telehandler, the first of its kind, was unveiled at Electra Mining Africa 2018. BPI designed and implemented the...
Nov 28, 2018 | Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Transport & Logistics
HPE Africa – specialists in earthmoving and construction equipment – was awarded a tender by Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) to supply 10 specially-adapted excavators for its Richards Bay facility, as part of an initiative to improve operational efficiencies...
Nov 22, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
Imperial Logistics has secured a long-term contract to distribute Nulaid eggs. Imperial Logistics’ Chief Strategy Officer Cobus Rossouw said the group’s initial three-year contract with Quantum Foods had been extended for five years, based on its “continued success in...
Nov 22, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Packaging, Transport & Logistics
IN what’s being hailed as a powerful vote of confidence in Port Elizabeth’s manufacturing industry, the country’s largest brewer, SAB and AB InBev Africa, has launched of a new R438-million production line at its Ibhayi...
