By Danielle Petterson The R305 million Wellington Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) upgrade is a priority project under Drakenstein Municipality’s Integrated Development Plan. With an existing design capacity of 6 Mℓ/d, the Wellington WWTW has...
IMIESA talks to Rocco Lehman, managing director of Ammann Construction Machinery South Africa, about expansion plans and new product launches in the asphalt and concrete segments. How does Ammann view the construction market so far in 2017? RL: The...
Bulk tanker distribution services provided by AfriSam ensure the efficient delivery of its proprietary Roadstab stabilisation product for an existing and greenfield expansion. Work is now well advanced on a major upgrade to the N1 along a heavily...
The town of Citrusdal in the Western Cape is located in close proximity to the 82.5 MW Paleishuewel solar power plant, owned by independent power producer Enel Green Power. It has 611,000 solar panels, which generates power for 48,000 homes ,and...
South Africa has been accused of ‘sabotaging’ Morocco’s commercial interests in Africa by seizing a vessel carrying phosphate mined by Morocco in Western Sahara. According to Moroccan media reports, the legal action against the...
Tetra Pak is incorporating more renewable electricity at its production facilities in China. The company said 35% of its electricity supply was renewable, and that this came from two wind farms: Inner Mongolia Wind and Guangdong Xinyi Wing, and a...
The issue of marine litter is not receiving enough attention in Africa, Juliette Biao, director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep), told delegates at the World Economic Forum which was recently held in Durban. Annually, eight...
The department of environmental affairs (DEA) is clamping down on all greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters. The official National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations were gazetted by environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa at the...
Founder and CEO of tech start-up EmptyTrips; Africa’s first smart transport marketplace says she is aware that the introduction of her new transport concept could possibly disrupt the logistics industry as we know it. Benji Coetzee’s...
International leader in the contract logistics market, ID Logistics has committed to working in South Africa and has outlined plans to expand its local operations in the country as a provider in the chilled distribution market. “Our activities in...
