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Hydraulic giants clash
3rd Quarter 2010
Honingcraft and Special Steels work closely together in the marketplace although they are competitors. On 9 July, they took the competition to the soccer field. Byron Ferguson, MD of Special Steels, ...

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New VP for APC
3rd Quarter 2010
APC by Schneider Electric, an international company active in power and cooling services, has announced the appointment of Paolo Miglietta as vice president for southern Africa. Miglietta reports to Christian ...

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SEW-Eurodrive appointment
3rd Quarter 2010
Massyn Jansen van Vuuren has been appointed as internal sales engineer at the Johannesburg offices of SEW-Eurodrive.      

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Belambie Mining appointment
3rd Quarter 2010
Bellambie Mining & Industrial, part of the Becker Group of Companies, has appointed Seuntjie Soke as lifting inspector.      

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MIT moves to CSIR Campus
3rd Quarter 2010
At the end of a long lease period in a commercial office park in Faerie Glen, Measuring Instruments Technology (MIT) has moved to new premises on the CSIR campus in Pretoria. While the company is excited ...

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Bright young minds shine at Cyber Junkyard
3rd Quarter 2010, Festo
The winners of the Cyber Junkyard (CJY) competition, a partnership between Festo, Siemens and Lapp Kabel, have recently been announced. The theme was ‘Play the Game, Save the Planet’ – a high-tech soccer ...

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SKF professor receives Leonardo da Vinci award
3rd Quarter 2010, SKF South Africa
Professor Stathis Ioannides has been presented with the Leonardo da Vinci award for his application of tribology theory to technical and practical developments in the mechanical industry and his contribution ...

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SKF recognises excellence
3rd Quarter 2010, SKF South Africa
SKF recently hosted the annual SKF Distributor Convention in the Drakensberg, where an awards evening was held to honour authorised distributors, lubrication distributors and the SKF branch network for ...

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Hytec certified for service
3rd Quarter 2010, Hytec South Africa
Late last year, Hytec was audited by the Bosch Rexroth Group for possible certification as an accredited Bosch Rexroth Service Centre of Competence. “Following the audit, which scrutinised aspects such ...

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Siemens bridges the skills gap
3rd Quarter 2010, Siemens South Africa
Siemens has adopted a multifaceted approach to skills development that establishes the levels of prevailing knowledge within an enterprise, matches this with a needs analysis, and then offers training ...

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IDC Technologies workshops August-October
3rd Quarter 2010
The following is a partial list of workshops for the August–October, 2010 period.       Practical process compressors    Johannesburg    16–17 August       Best practice in process, electrical and instrumentation ...

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Energy and innovation
3rd Quarter 2010, Technews Publishing
I would like to introduce myself as the new editor of Motion Control. I am excited to be part of the impressive Technews team and I am looking forward to meeting as many as possible of our advertisers ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: 2020 technology dreams and future family
3rd Quarter 2010
2020 technology dreams The first decade of the new century has already changed the world. Now get ready for much, much more. Accelerating high tech will drive further and faster. Broadband will be ...

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ISO accreditation for Honingcraft
2nd Quarter 2010
Honingcraft has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification, aligning quality procedures with international best practice standards and paving the way for company exports. The certification process began in ...

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Tectra Automation signs Schmalz distributorship agreement
2nd Quarter 2010, Tectra Automation
Tectra Automation has been appointed official South African distributor of J. Schmalz GMBH vacuum components. The agreement was signed late last year and sees Tectra Automation distributing the range ...

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The ball on the tower
2nd Quarter 2010
Becker Engineering’s Tirfor winches were used to lift and position the 35 ton FIFA World Cup soccer ball onto the Telkom Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg. “Six TU 40 Tirfors were used to lift and position ...

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Replacement 2 tonne gearbox supplied under 24 hours
2nd Quarter 2010
It has been reported that recently a local coal terminal came to a standstill when the terminal’s main conveyor failed on a Thursday afternoon. “The costs resulting from such downtime can be enormous,” ...

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Schneider Electric South Africa concludes third BEE deal
2nd Quarter 2010, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric has finalised its third black economic empowerment deal, the latest being with leading empowerment concern, Community Investment Holdings (CIH). This deal places 20,1% of the Schneider ...

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Obituary: Charles Patrick MacKay (15 Aug 1942-21 Apr 2010)
2nd Quarter 2010
It is with great sadness that the industry has learned of the passing of one of the great characters and contributors to the South African fluid power industry. Charles Patrick MacKay dedicated more ...

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Hydraulic training courses July-November 2010
2nd Quarter 2010, Hydraulic Training & Consultants
Hydraulic Training Course This 3-day course covers: Introduction to hydraulics, Principles of power hydraulics, Component introduction, Principles of operation, Hydraulic fluids, Filtration and circuit ...

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