At a very well attended recent SAFPA technical evening, Walter Zimmerman gave a presentation on the importance of filtration, covering topics such as functions of a hydraulic fluid; maintenance concepts; ...
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Willem Gijzelaar, Russell Gill and Walter Zimmerman, members of the SAFPA Council, recently attended a MERSETA workshop on Gaining MERSETA Accreditation. Seen here are the delegates to the workshop. ...
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Winter, a love/hate relationship! I doubt anybody really looks forward to the cold other than huskies, but I always look forward to sitting in front of a roaring fire, feeding it with wood that I have ...
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The SAFPA AGM held on Thursday 5 May 2011 was preceded by an interesting presentation on the Pneudrive Challenge by Adrian Buddingh, engineering manager, Festo. He was accompanied by Renee Rose, general ...
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2011 is now in full swing, besides the April down time with all the public holidays. For those who stayed in the office between the public holidays, well done for holding the fort. For those who chose ...
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Manny Vieira giving a presentation on SAFPA at the International Fluid Power Summit held by CETOP (Comité Européen des Transmissions Oléohydrauliques et Pneumatiques) during the 2011 Hannover Fair. ...
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At a recent SAFPA technical evening, Dr Stephen Meijers from ELB Engineering Services gave an extremely interesting talk on pneumatic conveying. Handling fine materials ranging from fly ash to fishmeal ...
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2011 has arrived at the speed of white light. The holiday season has come and gone far too quickly and the business steam train has shunted our seaside memories aside, replacing them with deadline driven ...
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SAFPA’s executive committee has regular monthly council meetings at the Blairgowrie offices of its secretariat, Cost Time Resource. Kim Roberts attended one recently and found that plenty is happening. ...
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Whenever I write these letters I must remember that by the time they get read for the first time it is usually a month or so later. As a result, topics in the president’s letter, although current during ...
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SAFPA’s Russel Gill has attended a training programme to run the 'Safety in hydraulic hose assembling' course. This will be available to the public in the new year.          Hose accreditation Hyflo volunteered ...
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It is now post-2010 FIFA World Cup, and we are all hoping that South Africa does not enter into some sort of post-euphoria hangover. Not being an avid soccer fan, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed ...
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