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Penmac takes on the University of Technology
October 2005
Early September, and with the anticipation of spring on the Highveld, 30 companies came together in the Vaal Triangle with the first co-operative venture with the Vaal University of Technology. The University ...

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Festo contributes R250 000 to Cyber Junkyard
October 2005, Festo
For the first time in the history of the competition, Festo will be contributing components (valued at over R250 000) to Cyber Junkyard, an inter-tertiary technology contest aimed at exposing tertiary ...

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Appointment
October 2005
Fred Venter, the Johannesburg branch manager of Valve & Automation (a Durban-based company) has been promoted to the board of directors.    Mercia Knoetze has been appointed as PA to the financial manager. ...

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We will overcome
October 2005
It is great to see companies and individuals overcome personal challenges with enthusiasm and aplomb. Recently a couple of companies worked together to make a difference - Eskom's Peaking Generation office ...

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Endress+Hauser accepts social responsibility
October 2005, Endress+Hauser South Africa
The globally active Endress+Hauser Group, specialising in measuring technology and automation solutions for industrial process engineering has decided to sell shares of its South African subsidiary in ...

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SAPICS conference
September 2005
The theme of this year's event was 'Supply Chains in Rhythm', and it was aimed at helping supply chain professionals to fine-tune the performance of their supply chains

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Moving towards broad-based black economic empowerment
September 2005
The definition of broad-based BEE is an integrated and coherent socio-economic process that will directly contribute to the economic transformation of this country and bring about significant increases in the number of black people that manage, own, and control the country's economy, as well as significant decreases in income inequalities

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Acquisition complements liquid analysis products
September 2005, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Endress+Hauser Conducta has taken over fellow German company STIP in a move to complete its product range in liquid analysis for the environmental and process industries. STIP develops, produces and ...

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Complete support for new range of drives
September 2005
Elquip Solutions recently became the sole agent for Berges VSD in South Africa and Africa. Berges inverters are available over a wide range, from 200 W to 355 kW. Programming is performed using an infrared ...

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Automation conference in Gauteng
September 2005, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation will be hosting its 2005 RSTechEd Africa conference at Emperor's Palace, Gauteng, South Africa, from 21 to 22 September. For the first time, the event will feature the Rockwell Automation ...

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Safety torch goes down well at exhibition
September 2005, Denver Technical Products
Sheffield-based Wolf Safety chose the Interschutz Show, held every five years in Hannover, as the vehicle to launch its innovative high-tech ATEX approved rechargeable torch range and Zone 'O' Headtorch ...

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Appointments
September 2005
Citect has recently appointed Tania Olivier as project engineer, Jannine Fortune as sales coordinator and Gareth Davies as key account manager.          The following people have been appointed at Process ...

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Running leaner, preserving capacity
September 2005
What to do about the industrial capacity utilisation decline. A recent McKinsey research report reveals that industrial capacity utilisation in the United States has decreased from around 83% in the ...

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Suppliers to watch out for fraudsters
September 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Early in August a colleague told me that one of our clients, Test and Measurement Instruments, had just been the victim of a sneaky fraud. So I called Joe Dos Santos to learn how these characters work. ...

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Flowmeter wins award at Swiss fair
August 2005, KROHNE
The 'Aqua Pro 2005' fair in Bulle awarded Krohne's Optiflux with the 'Prix de l'Innovation' for its revolutionary diagnostic concept consisting of 100% device, out-of-spec and application diagnostics. ...

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Krohne in SA now majority black-owned
August 2005, KROHNE
Africa Heritage Investments, a 100% black controlled company, has acquired a 50,1% stake in Krohne in SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Krohne of Germany, in what has been dubbed as a landmark deal involving ...

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Spirax-Sarco acquires Mitech and PCT
August 2005
Spirax-Sarco Engineering, based in the UK, has acquired the entire issued share capital of Actuators & Controls and Proportional Control Technology. Spirax-Sarco is a multinational company renowned for ...

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SABS award for magnetic test bench
August 2005
The Magnetic Test Bench is one of 16 product designs that received an SABS disa Design Excellence Award at a gala function held at Gallagher Estate recently. The products spanned a variety of industrial ...

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Techno-conversion changing education environment
August 2005, Festo South Africa
The first local education institute to offer mechatronic engineering as a complete field of study, the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Tshwane University of Technology, has seen mechatronic class ...

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Largest online utility network in Africa
August 2005, ABB South Africa
In March this year, work began on a R57 million project, for the manufacture, supply, delivery, installation, testing and commissioning of the electrical protection and data communication network for ...

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