Quality-controlled plastic recycling plays an essential role in helping manufacturers achieve consistent, reliable results when using recycled materials. Packaging accounts for approximately 52% of all plastics used in South Africa, making disciplined recycling processes increasingly important as manufacturers seek reliable, high-quality […]
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Across the global mining sector, Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulation has become a standard feature of transfer chute design. But according to Weba Chute Systems, the danger lies in confusing a verification tool with a complete design methodology. “Across the
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During National Women’s Month in August, Associated Energy Services (AES) – the ‘go-to’ industrial steam operations and project company for manufacturers wishing to optimise thermal energy generation and efficiencies – celebrates the development and upskilling of pioneering, energetic women who
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Fire is a material operational and safety risk across South Africa’s mining sector. The country’s latest mandatory fire-prevention guideline recorded 584 reported mine-fire incidents between 2019 and 2023[1], with mobile machinery, conveyor belts, electrical infrastructure, hot work and spontaneous combustion
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A pump’s price tag is only a small piece of total cost of ownership. Operating costs significantly exceed the initial purchase price, with energy and maintenance representing the largest TCO portions. Mining professionals know this, and many would agree with
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Industrial baking equipment operates under intense conditions. Inside a proving chamber, temperatures of around 38°C combined with humidity of between 85% and 100% create conditions that can cause an ordinary lubricant to fail within days. Lubrication Engineers (LE) South Africa
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The metals and engineering sector is at the heart of South Africa’s industrial development, producing the transformers, cables, pumps, valves, boilers, fabricated steel, mining equipment and engineering systems required by a modern economy, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the Steel and
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The mining industry is investing billions in automation, artificial intelligence (AI), remote operations and integrated control technologies, across Southern Africa. The sector’s next competitive advantage, however, may not come from the machines underground. It will come from the people making
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