May 2, 2018 | Chemical & Allied Industries, KZN Industrial & Business News, Petrochemicals
EXXONMOBIL has signed a new distributor agreement with South African sales, procurement and supply chain management company, Zestcor. According to the global petrochemicals heavyweight, the agreement is designed to support an efficient and reliable supply of...
May 2, 2018 | Food & Beverage, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Mining & Quarrying, Petrochemicals, Power Generation
VITAL Engineering, a manufacturer of gratings, stair treads, expanded metals, pressed floors and safety handrail, was recently selected to supply 500 000 Vitaclamps as part of the largest gratings, handrail and stair tread supply contract in Africa. The contract...
May 2, 2018 | Chemical & Allied Industries, Disaster Management, Fire Protection, Food & Beverage, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, KZN Industrial & Business News, Metals & Alloys, Petrochemicals, Water & Effluent Management
ON-site safety remains a major focus for all industries, petrochemicals included. While slips, trips and falls can be attributed to a number of factors, inadequately designed and manufactured walkways remain a primary contributor to on-site accidents. That’s according...
Apr 25, 2018 | Business Tech, Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Finance & Investment
FIRST National Bank (FNB) has announced the launch a mobile bank account that allows unbanked and underbanked South African consumers to use a feature phone or a smartphone to open a bank account without ever walking into a branch. Called eWallet eXtra, it will have...
Apr 25, 2018 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Heating, Cooling & Ventilation, Packaging, Property – Commercial & Industrial, Special Economic Zones, Transport & Logistics
THE Port Elizabeth (PE) Cold Storage plant located in the Coega Special Economic Zone (SEZ), one of the very first exports orientated investors to locate their facility at the SEZ, is once again expanding its facility. The investment worth R10 million is the second...
Apr 25, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Electrical & Electronics, Engineering Supplies, Environmental Management & Control, ICT In Industry, Instrumentation, Measurement & Control
YOKOGAWA Electric Corporation has added a network functionality to its UM33A digital indicator with alarms, a product in the UTAdvanced controller series. The company will release this to the market on May 7. With this network function, a single UM33A digital...
Apr 25, 2018 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News, Education & Training, Engineering Supplies, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, Property – Commercial & Industrial
AS part of its mandate to boost skills development in the timber construction sector, the Institute for Timber Construction South Africa (ITC-SA), the professional body for the engineered timber construction sector, will be hosting a CPD-accredited Roof Inspector...
Apr 25, 2018 | Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News
By Stergios Saltas Data breaches can be incredibly costly. In fact, a 2017 research report from IBM and the Ponemon Institute found that the average total organisational cost of a data breach in South Africa was R32,360,000. These breaches are only getting more costly...
Apr 25, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
EAST London sailed into the record books on Saturday, 21 April when the Chinese-owned Zhen Hua 8, a 220-metre multi-purpose, heavy load carrier docked safely and without incident in the port. With a beam of 42,3 metres, the Zhen Hua 8 is the widest vessel to ever dock...
