Trinity Telecomms expands in Namibia April 2009 Trinity Telecomms has announced the appointment of FireTech Systems as its Namibian distributor for wireless security solutions. Based in Windhoek, FireTech Systems was established in 2004 as a distributor ...
New offices for Thuthuka April 2009 Gauteng-based multidisciplinary engineering firm Thuthuka Group moved into new offices in Beaulieu, Kyalami, at the end of February. The new offices are located at Beaulieu Office Park, corner Papenfus ...
Award for Comtest April 2009, Comtest Comtest was presented with the Top Performer 2008 award for the Fluke industrial portfolio at a recent Fluke distributor meeting held in Barcelona. This is the fourth consecutive year that Comtest has ...
Pneudrive Challenge 2009 April 2009, SEW-Eurodrive After a very successful first year, sponsors SEW-Eurodrive and Festo have once again committed to sponsor the PneuDrive Challenge engineering student competition.
The aim of the competition is to show ...
SA growth for ABB April 2009, ABB South Africa ABB South Africa has reported a 45% increase in revenue to R3,3 billion, and power and automation orders of R4,4 billion – up more than 50% – for 2008.
Carlos Pone, CEO of ABB South Africa, says rapid ...
Enhancements at ARCA April 2009, Valve & Automation The upgrade of the ECOTROL control valve with a size DN 600is ARCA’s response to the increasing demand for high capacity globe style control valves, especially in anti-surge applications on turbo-compressors. ...
BMG to supply Eskom April 2009 Eskom has announced that BMG – Bearing Man Group - is now a supplier of Fenner energy-efficient electric motors for Eskom’s national energy efficiency programme.
“The new Fenner energy-efficient EFF1 ...
Appointments April 2009 Vega Instruments SA has appointed John Groom as managing director and Clint Viviers as key accounts business driver.
ifm electronic SA has appointed Shaun Pillay as sales engineer at its branch in ...
The trend to blend April 2009, Omron Electronics Machine builders are always under constant pressure to do more with less – reductions are sought in panel space as well as price, but at the same time machine builders must improve the functionality and ...
The end of an era April 2009, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control) In this month’s issue we publish the last of consulting editor and control loop guru, Michael Brown’s, Loop Signature series. We thought it would be an appropriate time to trace the history and get his ...
Environmental and economic benefits March 2009 Green engineering is the use of measurement and control techniques to design, develop, and improve products, technologies, and processes, resulting in environmental and economic benefits
Honeywell Process Solutions business March 2009 Honeywell has appointed Norman Gilsdorf as president of Honeywell Process Solutions. Gilsdorf was formerly vice president and general manager of the Process Solutions business in Europe, Middle East and ...
Siemens starts 2009 well March 2009 Siemens got off to a good start in fiscal 2009 despite challenging market conditions. Revenue rose 7% to €19,634 billion in the first quarter, which ended on 31 December, 2008. Orders continued to exceed ...
ABB's analytics in orbit March 2009 Leading technology supplier ABB has seen the final phase of the greenhouse gases observing satellite (GOSAT) project come to fruition. The recently christened ‘IBUKI’ (to breathe in Japanese) satellite ...
New heights for Voith March 2009 Voith’s WinDrive has shown its strength in what is believed to be the highest installed wind turbine in the world. Situated 4200 m above sea level, the 2 MW wind turbine delivers power to the Veladero ...
Emerson's Dubai facility March 2009 Emerson recently celebrated the official opening of its new regional headquarters in Dubai to better serve its growing portfolio of business in the Middle East and to reinforce the company’s long-term ...
100 furnace control systems March 2009 Mintek, South Africa’s national mineral research organisation has completed the one-hundredth installation worldwide of its FurnStar-Minstral advanced process control (APC) system for furnaces. The systems ...
Move for Meter Systems March 2009 Meter Systems has moved to bigger premises to allow it to maintain an optimum level of service to its customers.
The company was established in 1978 to supply equipment to the aviation and petroleum ...
ESTEQ partners with HBM March 2009 ESTEQ Engineering has become the newest partner of HBM, a global market leader in test and measurement solutions. This news followed HBM’s successful acquisition of nCode International late in 2008.
ESTEQ ...
