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IDC Technologies workshops February-April
1st Quarter 2009
* Practical Safe Lifting Practice and Maintenance    Johannesburg: 5–6 February.       * Practical Fibre Optics for Engineers and Technicians    Johannesburg: 9–10 February.       * Pipeline Systems – Design, Construction, ...

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Hydraulic training courses February-April
1st Quarter 2009, 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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Festo Didactic training March-April
1st Quarter 2009, Festo
Electro-Pneumatics EP211    Johannesburg: April 15–17.    Durban: April 22–24.       Hydraulics (1) Basic H511    Johannesburg: March 25–27.    Cape Town: April 15–17.    Johannesburg: April 28–30.       Hydraulics ...

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Appointments
1st Quarter 2009
Genflex has appointed four new directors to the board. The new appointments are: Tian du Preez – non-executive director, Haroon Tobias – executive director, Allan Cosgrave – sales director, Frans Moolman ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: The Big Five and California Dreamin'
1st Quarter 2009
South Africa and The Big Five I arrived safe and happy in Johannesburg, South Africa. A good flight (10,5 hours from London) and on time. Good people, good stimulation of good thinking. After a stimulating ...

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Experts debate encoder safety: Will Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC affect encoder design?
1st Quarter 2009, Turck Banner Southern Africa
Safety and Innovation were the themes at Kübler’s year-end Customer Days. Safety is especially topical this year because on 29 December 2009 the European Parliament’s Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC will ...

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Holding your breath is not an option
1st Quarter 2009, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Corrections and recessions impact us in our personal and business lives and we respond to these outside events with what we perceive to be rational reactions. Corrections are by definition short-lived ...

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International news digest
Fourth Quarter 2008
Bosch Rexroth has joined the IO-Link consortium of the PROFIBUS user organisation. IO-Link enables the integration of intelligent sensors and actuators in automation networks. The IO-Link consortium ...

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BMG successfully concludes Goldquest acquisition
Fourth Quarter 2008, Bearing Man Group T/A BMG
Bearing Man Group (BMG), part of Invicta Holdings, has expanded its business into the fluid power industry with the recent announcement that it has successfully concluded the acquisition of 100% of Goldquest ...

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Lloyds Register ISO certifies Arthur Rushmer Engineering
Fourth Quarter 2008
Arthur Rushmer Engineering’s (ARE) quality management system has been approved by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance as meeting the requirements of ISO 9000:2000. The approval covers the sale, service ...

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Genflex pilots franchise operation
Fourth Quarter 2008
Genflex recently launched a pilot franchise operation in Delmas to gain insight into this business model. According to Bruce Garner, managing director of Genflex, “Genflex has no experience in franchising ...

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Fluiconnecto opens in KZN
Fourth Quarter 2008
Fluiconnecto By Manuli, part of the 70-year-old Manuli Rubber Industries Corporation, has expanded its horizons by opening a Durban branch at 104 Williams Road, Umbilo to service end-users in the Durban ...

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Hytec hydraulics for Sishen
Fourth Quarter 2008, Hytec South Africa
Spartan-based hydraulic systems specialist Hytec has completed the majority of orders received from project management houses involved in the Sishen Iron Ore Expansion Project (SEP). “Through this project ...

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Voith establishes Nigerian company
Fourth Quarter 2008
Voith Nigeria was officially launched on 3 July 2008. Inem Essien, managing director of Voith Nigeria says, “Voith Nigeria is expanding quite rapidly and is fast tracking recruitment and training of staff ...

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Harvard Projects secures Airtac distribution
Fourth Quarter 2008
Harvard Projects has secured the sole distributorship for Airtac, a large Chinese manufacturer of pneumatic equipment. Globally, Airtac has 150 distributors, 78 sales offices and 2200 employees. Carl ...

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SEW goes X-treme at Electra Mining
Fourth Quarter 2008, SEW-EURODRIVE
German-owned multinational drive engineering company SEW-Eurodrive used Electra Mining 2008 as the official South African launch platform for its new X-Series range of industrial gears. The series is ...

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IDC Technologies workshops November-January
Fourth Quarter 2008
Leading your engineering team to top performance    Johannesburg: 3–4 November.       Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)    Richards Bay: 3–4 November.       Troubleshooting instrumentation, electrical and control ...

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Appointments
Fourth Quarter 2008
SEW Eurodrive has announced the appointment of Cas de Jager to the position of Durban branch manager.       Diane Hibberd has been appointed senior draughtsperson at SEW Eurodrive.    SEW Eurodrive has announced ...

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Grade 6 pupils challenged in robotics pilot project
Fourth Quarter 2008
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has been working with the Tshwane District of the Gauteng Department of Education (GED) to pilot a project with grade sixes at a group of middle schools in the district. ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Bucket lists and warring robots
Fourth Quarter 2008
My bucket-list trip Have you seen the movie, ‘Bucket List’? If you have not, see it. Two old guys (played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) who have cancer meet in hospital and are given a few months ...

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