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Honeywell to modernise Nordics’ largest refinery
January 2014
Honeywell has been selected by Preem AB to modernise one of Europe’s largest refineries, Preemraf Lysekil, with Honeywell’s Enhanced High Performance Process Manager (EHPM) industrial process controllers. ...

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Yokogawa selected by Chevron Phillips for ­petrochemicals project
January 2014, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that it has been selected as the main automation contractor for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company’s USGC project. The project was first announced in March 2011 ...

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Rockwell Automation celebrates manufacturing safety excellence
January 2014, Rockwell Automation
To raise awareness and recognise top performing manufacturers that have realised the widespread benefits of a strong safety programme, Rockwell Automation announced its first Manufacturing Safety Excellence ...

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Festo aids SA team at Jet World Masters 2013
January 2014, Festo South Africa
The Jet World Masters 2013 competition was held in Switzerland and Festo was happy to provide assistance to the South African team. The competition brings together the best scale jet aircraft model builders ...

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Rockwell Automation and Actom pair up for drive and motor convenience
January 2014, Rockwell Automation
It is vital that variable speed drives (VSDs) and electric motors are appropriately matched. This is in part due to the output switching characteristics of variable speed drives and, more importantly, ...

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Rittal appoints Magnet as KZN distributor
January 2014
Magnet has been appointed KZN distributor for Rittal, a global leader in enclosures and cooling systems.    “The Rittal range, which encompasses industrial enclosures, electronic packaging, system climate ...

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Endress+Hauser opens plant in Brazil
January 2014, Endress+Hauser South Africa
The Endress+Hauser group has strengthened its position in the South American market. The Swiss specialist for measurement engineering has invested over €8 million in a new production facility for flow, ...

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Adroit Technologies showcases Mitsubishi VSDs
January 2014, Adroit Technologies
To showcase its range of energy saving Mitsubishi Electric variable speed drives, Adroit Technologies recently hosted a technical evening for clients in the company’s newly launched demonstration centre. ...

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Vega Instruments SA keeps Roodepoort Child Welfare moving
January 2014, VEGA Controls SA
Roodepoort Child Welfare received a pleasant surprise at the ROCCI Business of the Year awards during October 2013. John Groom, managing director of Vega Instruments SA, presented Angelique McAdam, chairperson ...

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Electra Mining West Africa – unlocking the value and shaping the future of West Africa’s mining industry
January 2014
Electra Mining West Africa is the newest addition to the global Electra Mining Africa brand receiving recognition for its broad reach across mining, construction, industrial and power generation industry ...

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PneuDrive Challenge 2013 engineering design winners announced
January 2014, SEW-EURODRIVE
During November 2013, a panel of local engineering experts decided that the ‘Waste granite to cobblestone machine’ from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology was the winning design entry for PneuDrive ...

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Endress+Hauser customer training: preparing for ­optimised reactive maintenance
January 2014, Endress+Hauser South Africa
According to Endress+ Hauser, technical training is a vital part of reactive maintenance (breakdown) planning. Suitably trained maintenance personnel are integral to effective and timeous response to ...

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The premier automation and industrial IT conference
January 2014
X-CHANGE 2014, Invensys’ 22nd user conference, will be held at the beautiful Wild Coast Sun from 6 to 9 April 2014 – almost exactly 11 years to the day after the start of the ArchestrA revolution of 2003 ...

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OEN Enterprises supplies radiation monitors for Angolan customs officials
January 2014
The OEN Enterprises’ section representing Thermo Scientific radiation detection instrumentation recently supplied radiation monitors to the Angolan customs department to help detect radioactive material ...

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Field Device Integration (FDI) specification and ­developer tools now available
January 2014, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
The Fieldbus Foundation has announced the first public release of FDI Cooperation, LLC’s Field Device Integration (FDI) specification and a demo of the FDI developer toolkits, both of which will make ...

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Energy efficiency tax incentives now open for business
January 2014
During November 2013, the National Treasury gazetted section 12L which puts into operation deductions of energy efficiency savings in terms of the Income Tax Act of 1962. This long-awaited announcement ...

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Frost & Sullivan: Growth of beverage production in sub-Saharan Africa stokes demand for ACS
January 2014
The growing demand for beer, carbonated soft drinks and other beverages in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is expected to expand the sub-region’s beverage manufacturing sector through to 2019. In turn, the construction ...

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Ana-Digi Systems has moved
January 2014
The new Johannesburg address is: Ana-Digi Systems Block 816/3 Hammets Crossing Office Park 2 Selbourne Road Fourways 2055 The company is also rolling out a national telephone number: 0861 32 33 ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Manufacturing and ­money both confronted by revolution
January 2014
Industry 4.0 – industrial Internet The Internet of Things (IoT) is spreading everywhere – industrial, business, commercial and consumer. GE is focusing on the industrial side, calling it ‘The industrial ...

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