24 October 2023: Valsa Trading’s latest addition to its comprehensive range of solar components are its cable management clips, that serve as invaluable assets for organizing and securing both AC and DC cables in all types of solar power systems, states CEO Svilen Voychev....
The degradation we are witnessing in our transport infrastructure is a result of years of insufficient funding, corruption, and a shortage of skilled personnel. This deterioration is pervasive across all facets of the transport sector, indicating a systemic issue....
20 October 2023: Empowered engineering, integration and manufacturing company, Iritron, also a provider of engineered solutions in the fields of electrical, instrumentation, control systems, decision support and solar solutions, has announced that it has reached a safety milestone of 150 000 lost time injury (LTI)-free workforce hours....
17th October 2023: Specialist designer, manufacturer and supplier of structural steel elements, Peikko South Africa, reports on the successful completion of a manufacture and supply contract for a piperack project at a refinery located in Angola’s oil rich province of Cabinda....
6 October 2023: With a history of delivering large engineering projects globally, Iritron has over 20 years’ experience in designing Motor Control Centres (MCCs) built to the highest international specifications, explains Alwyn Rautenbach, the CEO of Iritron....
3 October 2023 — UNESCO, in collaboration with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, concluded a four-day Robotics, Programming, 3D Printing, and Artificial Intelligence Training Boot Camp as part of the 9th UNESCO Africa Engineering Week and 7th Africa Engineering Conference. The event, held recently, at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, South Africa, saw enthusiastic participation from students of J Kekana High School, in Pretoria....
We are entering the 15th year of loadshedding and one might have thought that the renewables market might have been further along in its development than it is, but what has given, certainly solar PV such a boost is that loadshedding has become much worse, the realisation that the challenge won’t be solved in the short-term and increasing concerns on climate change - and the extensive uptake has meant that component prices for solar installations have become more affordable....
2 October 2023: The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) acknowledges Deputy President Paul Mashatile's recent call to address the under-representation of women and marginalized groups in the engineering sector at the 9th UNESCO Africa Engineering Week (AEW) and 7th Africa Engineering Conference in Pretoria. However, SAICE CEO Sekadi Phayane-Shakhane asked a critical question: “How can we swiftly transition from acknowledging the issue to enacting decisive, transformative action?”...
28 September 2023: In an effort to spearhead sustainable business practices in the aviation sector, Fireblade Aviation, a leading private aviation company, has carved a noteworthy path by becoming the first aviation company to join The Long Run. The Long Run stands as a global membership community uniting nature-based tourism entities dedicated to propelling holistic sustainability....
27 September 2023: Celebrating and growing engineering excellence continued to be the theme of discussions and insights at the third day of the 9th UNESCO Africa Engineering Week (AEW) and the 7th Africa Engineering Conference, taking place at the CSIR International Convention Centre, in Pretoria, South Africa. Delegates including Ministers, government officials, academia and the private sector, from across the African continent attending the conference, agreed that engineers need to be at the policy-making table as the role of the engineer is to ensure the betterment of society through the development of infrastructure across the region....