A company has been lauded for promoting e-waste recycling awareness and developing best practice recycling technologies. Based on its recent analysis of the electronic waste management market, Frost & Sullivan has awarded Desco Electronic...
Continental Tyre South Africa (CTSA) employees embarked on a clean-up operation of the canal adjacent to the factory in Port Elizabeth and the N2 freeway, commonly known as Smelly Creek. This initiative forms part of the company’s support to Water...
Pictured: LEFT to RIGHT: Jean-Pierre Ducournau, CEO Ducournau Transports; Thérèse Ducournau; Anders Lindblad, chairman of the board of Star For Life; and Jean-Noël Thénault, president of Volvo Trucks France; holding the cheque made out to Star For...
A new European approved and crash-tested modular guardrail, Easyrail, is to be manufactured under licence in South Africa by engineering and manufacturing company Andrew Mentis. This is the first time a guardrail of this type is to be manufactured...
As citizens in a semi-arid country, South Africans are wasteful water users, using as much as five times more water per person than we should. According to Peter Shepherd, partner and principal hydrologist in the Johannesburg office of SRK...
The South African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers’ Association (SAPPMA) has warned that the replacement of old water pipes around the country is long overdue. Speaking at the launch of National Water Week (18 to 24 March 2013), SAPPMA chairman Jan...
Pictured: The three South African winners who will compete in the automotive division at the 2013 World Skills Competition (L-R): Dominic Laranjeira, Scott Alison and David Hlope. Three young automotive artisans are representing South Africa at the...
Researchers have developed a water purification tablet comprised of nano particles that can be used by developing world communities with no access to clean water. The tablet, Madi Drop, invented by PureMadi was presented at the organisation’s...
An exceptional example of safety achievement ‘against all odds’ The two-year upgrade of the Bayhead Road, adjacent to the Port of Durban, was completed with zero lost time injuries and over 1 million lost time injury free man hours. Graham Landon,...
