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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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SKF and Delba Electrical partnership
Fourth Quarter 2008, SKF South Africa
The combination of SKF’s century of experience, technological know-how and product innovation in bearings and Springs-based Delba Electrical’s 45 years of experience in the electric motor repair industry ...

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A salute to successful South Africans
Fourth Quarter 2008, Technews Publishing
With world markets crashing around us, economic activity slowing and the Rand rapidly weakening I thought I should look on the bright side – at some incredible South Africans and their accomplishments. Most ...

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International news digest
Third Quarter 2008
ABB has announced the appointment of Joseph M. Hogan as ABB Group CEO. Hogan is currently CEO of GE Healthcare, and is a member of the GE Senior Executive Council. He will join ABB on 1 September, 2008. ...

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Eskom offers motor subsidies
Third Quarter 2008
The Energy Efficient Motors (EEM) Programme is one of Eskom’s accelerated demand-side management (DSM) interventions, which have a cumulative savings target of 8000 MW by 2025. Through this programme ...

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Sponsors sought for SA Robotics Championship
Third Quarter 2008
F’SATIE (French South African Institute in Electronics) at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is looking for sponsors for the SA FIRST LEGO League (FLL) championships for middle school learners ...

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Tectra launches pneumatic catalogue
Third Quarter 2008, Tectra Automation
Tectra Automation, sole sub-Saharan representative of German-based Bosch Rexroth, has launched a 350 page pneumatic product catalogue detailing its Bosch Rexroth product offering. The catalogue includes ...

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Dribbling 'bots set for INSITE exhibition
Third Quarter 2008
Humanoid robots will form the focus of the Rheinisch-Wesfälsche Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen stand at the German Pavilion at INSITE 2008, the International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition. ...

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SKF signed up for mobile weighing systems
Third Quarter 2008, SKF South Africa
Bearing technology and rotating equipment specialist, SKF South Africa, has been appointed exclusive distributor of the Ascorel product range in sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Pont-Evêque, France, Ascorel ...

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CMG gets EE motor nod from Eskom
Third Quarter 2008
Eskom has registered CMG SA as one of only three leading local electric motor companies for the Eskom DSM (demand side management) Energy Efficient Motors Programme. The programme’s objective is to replace ...

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Intermot appoints Hytec
Third Quarter 2008, Hytec Fluid Technology
Hytec has been appointed sole distributor of Intermot radial piston hydraulic motors in sub-Saharan Africa, effective 1 August 2008. According to Hytec Holdings Group managing director John Wingrove, ...

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General Pneumatics absorbs damper agency
Third Quarter 2008
Based in both Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, General Pneumatics is a company with almost 30 years of experience in the supply of low cost automation products from around the world. The company offers a full ...

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