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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...