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Giant gearbox reconditioned
Fourth Quarter 2005
In what is believed to be one of the heaviest and most complex gearboxes to be reconditioned in South Africa to date, Hytec has overcome challenges ranging from a five-day delay to the daunting logistics ...

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MERSETA Pneumatic and PLC courses
Fourth Quarter 2005, Pneumatic Training & Consultants
Pneumatic - Basic Module 1 Duration: 2-3 days Experience: none Venues: Holiday Inns, CSIR Dates 2006: 13-15 February, 27-29 March, 29-31 May, 31 July-2 August, 23-23 August, 11-13 September, 23-25 ...

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OEM partnerships ensure high standards
Fourth Quarter 2005
There has been a markedly increased rate of attrition of the highly technical skills required in the electric motor repair and remanufacture industry in the past few years, with many experienced artisans ...

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Appointment
Fourth Quarter 2005
Fritz Fourie has taken over the reins from Torsten Schultz and has been appointed managing director at Hansen Transmissions South Africa with effect from 1 October 2005.      

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Own-brand airline equipment
Fourth Quarter 2005
Imported, quality filters, regulators and lubricators are now available under the Elco label. Ernest Lowe has just released a brand-new range of filters, regulators and lubricators under its own Elco ...

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Engineering and Hydraulic Services
Fourth Quarter 2005
Engineering and Hydraulic Services (EHS), situated in the North West Province town of Brits, has been trading in the hydraulics and pneumatics business since 1981. In the 24 years that the company has ...

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Lapp Cables relocation opening
Fourth Quarter 2005
Lapp Cable South Africa recently celebrated the opening of its relocated office and warehouse facility. Here we see Mark Dilchert, Siegbert Lapp, Dieter Dilchert and Andreas Lapp at the celebration.

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Editorial comment
Fourth Quarter 2005, Technews Publishing
With 2005 essentially over it is a good time to take a look at how Motion Control is doing and where we are heading.       Fluid power anchor While we would like Motion Control to become the 'one stop' ...

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The Hytec Group
Fourth Quarter 2005
Established in 1966 (although its original origins can be traced back through its holding company to 1946), the privately owned Hytec Group of companies, under Group MD, John Wingrove, has grown to be ...

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Festo contributes R250 000 to Cyber Junkyard
Third Quarter 2005, Festo South Africa
For the first time in the history of the competition, Festo will be contributing components (valued at over R250 000) to Cyber Junkyard, an inter-tertiary technology contest aimed at exposing tertiary ...

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Hytec supplies South American OEM
Third Quarter 2005
Hytec Johannesburg has recently supplied seven thickener drives valued at more than R1-million to a South American original equipment manufacturer. This follows a decision by the client to appoint Hytec ...

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City of uMhlathuze gets new transformer
Third Quarter 2005, WEG Africa
The largest WEG transformer supplied to date by Zest Electric Motors and Drives will be commissioned at the Hercules substation in the CBD of Richards Bay. The City of uMhlathuze encompasses Empangeni, ...

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Johnson appoints Yale sole southern African distributor
Third Quarter 2005
Yale Industrial Products Engineering Products Division has acquired the sole southern African distributorship of Johnson rotary joints for all local industry and corrugating manufacturing (excluding certain ...

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VSDs for copper mine
Third Quarter 2005
Danfoss South Africa has recently completed the supply of VSDs for the Kansanshi Copper Project in Zambia. Kansanshi is an open cast mining operation that is 80% owned by mining company, First Quantum ...

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Addendum to Motion Control Buyers' Guide 2005 details for Hydrasales
Third Quarter 2005, Hydrasales
Due to a publishing error the printed version of Motion Control Buyers' Guide did not include a list of the brands offered by Hydrasales. Motion Control apologises for any inconvenience cause by this ...

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Techno-conversion changing education environment
Third Quarter 2005, Festo South Africa
The first local education institute to offer mechatronic engineering as a complete field of study, the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Tshwane University of Technology, has seen mechatronic class ...

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SA pneumatics distributor wanted
Third Quarter 2005
Tanair, a rapidly growing pneumatics company is looking to expand into South Africa. Its product range consists of cylinders, valves, air service units as well as push-in fittings. The equipment is made ...

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Appointments
Third Quarter 2005
Ian Jacobs has been appointed divisional manager of pneumatics at Tectra Automation.    Charles Collen has been appointed as a Marthinusen & Coutts sales representative for Mpumalanga and North West Province ...

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Didactic courses available in September 2005
Third Quarter 2005, Festo
Festo Didactic is running the following MERSETA accredited courses that combine theory with practice:       Basic pneumatics The objectives of low cost automation, pneumatic symbols and other general pneumatic ...

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Forthcoming industrial exhibitions
Third Quarter 2005
Two shows that Exhibitions for Africa has lined up for next year include the Eastern Cape Industrial Technology Exhibition and the Cape Industrial Technology Exhibition. For those wishing to mark their ...

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