Responding to the shorter timeframes for environmental impact assessments (EIAs) introduced by the South African government last year, engineering firms wanting to stay ahead of the rest are developing extensive pre-EIA screening approach to turn...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel on food contact materials, enzymes, flavourings and processing aids has issued scientific opinion on the safety of the “ExtruPET” recycling process, which is based on trademarked Starlinger IV+...
An Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), with an investment of over R260 million, will be launched on Friday at the OR Tambo International Airport. Trade and Industry (dti) Deputy Minister Mzwandile Masina and Gauteng MEC for Economic Development,...
President Jacob Zuma will today inform the public on progress made in the National Infrastructure Plan. This, after meeting with the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission Council (PICC), which comprises ministers, premiers and...
Danville Park Girls’ High School in Durban North, KZN, was recently awarded first place at the National Water Explorer Awards event that was held at the Durban Botanical Gardens. The Water Explorer programme is a two-year collaboration...
How can architects and designers shape South Africa’s urban landscape for positive social change and economic development? This is the question on everyone’s lips as global thought-leaders prepare to gather for the ArchitectureZA 2015 (AZA2015)...
In what has been coined the worst migration crisis in Europe since the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa have flocked to Europe in seek of help. In 2014, roughly 170 000 migrants landed...
RITZ Pumps South Africa supply a wide range of pumps from German company Andritz. In this month’s Hot Seat, Molefe Seth Phalatse, chairman of RITZ Pumps South Africa, shows how this small company – with only 11 employees – is able to maximise its...
From the company’s earliest days, the development of fundamental technologies for particularly efficient, environmentally compatible vehicles has been a recurring theme in the history of the Mercedes-Benz brand. Mercedes-Benz Trucks has been the...
The Department of Water and Sanitation says it will soon establish a water management unit as a step towards dealing with the problem of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in South Africa. This was revealed on Monday during a meeting held in Pretoria between...
