Oct 2, 2018 | KZN Industrial & Business News, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
Racheal Njoroge, Managing Director, Cummins Southern Africa Cummins, a global power leader, has announced the appointment of Racheal Njoroge as Managing Director, Cummins Southern Africa as of 1stSeptember 2018. Njoroge is responsible for the leadership, operations...
Sep 27, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Motors, Drives & Transmissions, Power Generation
COMTEST is offering the Fluke’s range of Three-Phase Power Quality Loggers – 1742, 1746 and 1748 – giving users fast, easy access to the data they need to make critical power quality and energy decisions in real-time. “Compact and rugged, these Three-Phase...
Sep 27, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
BMG’s extensive portfolio of Tsubaki Kabelschlepp cable carrier systems and safety cables includes S/SX steel cable carriers, which have been designed for carrying heavy mechanical loads in harsh environments, including corrosive conditions. “The S/SX series comprises...
Sep 27, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
FOR vessel operators, every day of unscheduled downtime results in high costs, regardless of whether the ship is an offshore support vessel (OSV), a tugboat, ferry or yacht It is against this background that Voith says it offers a wide range of customized service...
Aug 30, 2018 | Agriculture & Sugar, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, KZN Industrial & Business News, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
INSTROTECH is now offering Kobold’s TNK resistance thermometers, that it says are particularly suitable for monitoring the temperature of diesel engines, thanks to their extreme insensitivity to vibration, impact and shock load. “The extremely robust measuring devices...
Aug 28, 2018 | Food & Beverage, KZN Industrial & Business News, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
ELECTRIC motor applications require a reliable, robust fit-for-purpose product that will give the end user the requisite low total cost of ownership. That’s according to Fanie Steyn, manager responsible for rotating machines at Zest WEG Group, who said it is...
Jul 31, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
SKF and Proximion AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hexatronic Group AB have entered into a development partnership for the industrialisation of fibre-optic sensing systems. The two parties will work together to combine SKF’s fibre-optic bearing sensing technology with...
Jul 18, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Automotive, EC Industrial & Business News, Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control, Manufacturing, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
IN what’s being hailed as a first for South Africa, Hytec Group companies Tectra Automation and Hytec collaborated to help a motor vehicle OEM slash energy costs at its Port Elizabeth engine plant. This was achieved with the installation of a Sytronix Variable Speed...
Jun 20, 2018 | Automotive, EC Industrial & Business News, Government & Municipal, Import / Export, Manufacturing, Motors, Drives & Transmissions
MINISTER of Finance, Nhlanhla Nene, recently visited Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) in Uitenhage to view its operations. The plant will produce about 137 000 Polos and Polo Vivos this year with over 80 000 being exported to markets around the world. Volkswagen...
