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Crossroads picks up Chevron award for safety

Chevron –the company responsible for supplying fuels to Caltex garages – reintroduced its award for safety at its recent conference for hauliers. This was driven by the company’s Zero-Zero-One campaign (zero spills, zero incidents, number one in...

Collect-a-Can is turning 20!

Southern Africa’s metal can and packaging recovery company, Collect-a-Can has been minimising the negative impact of used metal cans on the environment and creating awareness about the importance of recycling and litter reduction for the past 20...

Modern roofing – tar roofing

Modern Roofing is a fully licensed and insured roofing contractor located in Burbank CA, and is capable of tackling any roof repair or roof installation job in the Burbank Area. Modern Roofing has been providing residential roofing services since...
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R228-million upgrade of the R55

Picture: Applying pre-coated chips to the asphalt After successfully completing the R200-million Phase 1 section of the project in November 2010, which entailed the construction of a dual carriageway between the N14 freeway and Wierda Road, SMEC...
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Community benefits from road upgrade

Community benefit has been a key spin-off in rural infrastructure projects in the Free State, where township roads, some of which are falling to pieces, are undergoing upgrading and repair. In just one road improvement project alone, in the sleepy...

Malibongwe Ridge sod turning

Basil Read Developments, a division of Basil Read, has broken ground on the Malibongwe Ridge development, adjacent to its Cosmo City development, North-West of Johannesburg CBD. The R1,85 billion affordable housing project is being developed for...

Using green growth as a new driver of growth

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation on Development (OECD) released its 2013 Economic Survey of South Africa this week in Midrand, Johannesburg. At the launch, Angel Gurría, OECD secretary-general, highlighted how the country can use “green...
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Long-haul fleet expands with MAN

Lantic Logistics has purchased 20 new MAN TGS WW 26.480 BLS truck-tractors to augment its existing fleet comprising seven derivatives from five competitor truck manufacturers. The Gauteng-based fleet, owned by prominent property developer Faan...
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Diversion of waste to landfill

Novel approach to carcass disposal Dr Melanie Jones, a veterinarian based in Cape Town and founder of Zero to Landfill Organics, is running a trial on the composting of companion animal carcasses that are currently being taken to landfill. These...