Alviva to leverage services strength for growth over next year
Business information and communication technology (ICT) company Alviva will leverage the investments made into its subsidiaries and infrastructure, which has helped to reduce gearing, broadened its...
View ArticleBringing data to life using advanced analytics
Information services multinational Experian has established innovation laboratories, which it terms “DataLabs”, in the US, Brazil and UK to stimulate organic product development, says Experian VP Eric...
View ArticlePlatform ensures more effective communication
With ineffective communication often affecting the level of health and safety implementation and efficiency in industries that have stringent safety requirements, software company Wyzetalk provides...
View ArticleClosed steel mill discovering new life as an industrial park
Following the implementation of the business strategy to convert Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium complex, in Mpumalanga, into an industrial park, the park is capitalising on its strategic location,...
View ArticleInsurance plays vital role in construction project success
Owing to insurance playing a vital role in the ultimate success of a construction project, insurance provider Risk Benefit Solutions (RBS) says contractors and engineers need to ensure that a contract...
View ArticleSupplier prepares for maintenance shutdown
Specialist valve, overpressure, combustion, pipeline, and product storage equipment supplier Heaton Valves Africa (HVA) is gearing up for petrochemicals giant Sasol’s major plant maintenance shutdown,...
View ArticleVacuum tech manufacturer expands offering
Heavy-duty industrial vacuum manufacturer Hencon Vacuum Technologies (Hencon VT) has expanded its service offering from only selling and manufacturing vacuum equipment to also providing cleaning...
View ArticleEquipment supplier provides spare-part warehousing solution
Owing to increasing demand for improved quality and the availability of production operations, metallurgical plant and equipment supplier SMS group provides consignment stock or warehousing facilities...
View ArticleOrganisations’ digital memory gets cloud boost
The new multipurpose cloud archiving solution, launched by e-mail management multinational Mimecast, can be used to ensure effective archiving of the email communications and documents that function as...
View ArticlePower and utilities drone market worth more than $9bn
The international drone market comprising solutions that use drones for the power and utilities industries is worth as much as $9.46-billion a year, according to a report published by professional...
View ArticleICT service provider Ayo to list on JSE
Ayo Technology Solutions will list on the main board of the JSE on December 21. The company provides information and communications technology (ICT) services to the healthcare industry, as well as...
View ArticleNew Southern Africa payment infrastructure being designed
Southern African payment clearing utility BankservAfrica and the regional banking community are working together to design a new payment architecture and infrastructure that will help to lower...
View ArticleNewly expanded Joburg data centre to serve cloud demand in SA
Africa Data Centres, part of pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has expanded its Midrand-based data centre to a 7 MW, 3 000 m2 carrier-neutral facility to better serve demand for cloud and...
View ArticleOver 20 000 visitors expected at event
With more than 20 000 international and local visitors from 72 countries expected to attend bauma CONEXPO AFRICA 2018, international exhibition company Messe München South Africa CEO Elaine Crewe says...
View ArticleMinister seeks better monitoring of local procurement compliance
South Africa has seen a slippage in State entities’ compliance with local procurement regulations, which the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) seeks to rectify by introducing a tougher consequence...
View ArticleTransnet renews manganese contract with South32
State-owned Transnet and diversified miner South32 on Thursday signed a seven-and-a-half-year manganese export capacity allocation (Meca) contract, allowing for the transportation of 2.6-million tonnes...
View ArticleCloud services helping companies change business IT
Transitional cloud services and offerings are helping companies to change their business information technology (IT) and hardware gradually, allowing them to familiarise themselves with the new...
View ArticleEOH grows revenue, but profit falls in H1
JSE-listed information technology services multinational EOH has grown its revenue for the six months ended January 31, by 19% to R8.35-billion compared with R7.03-billion in the corresponding period...
View ArticleNigerian government invites tenders for environmental remediation project
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) is seeking to appoint environmental remedial contractors for phase one of its Remediation of Hydrocarbon Impacted sites in Ogoni project.
View ArticleNcondezi reviews updated EPC, operations and maintenance proposals
Power development company Ncondezi Energy is reviewing updated proposals for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts for its integrated...
View ArticleSenegal integrating more renewables with 130 MW Wärtsilä Flexicycle power plant
Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a contract to engineer, manufacture and deliver a 130 MW Flexicycle plant in Senegal, which will be an integral part of the country’s energy future.
View ArticleAirbus commissions Imperial Logistics to procure, supply tools
Aeronautics company Airbus has hired logistics service provider Imperial Logistics to procure and distribute metal cutting tools such as milling cutters, drills and countersinks for its German...
View ArticleHyperscale cloud being used to increase scope of financial services
Financial services companies in South Africa are using hyperscale cloud systems to increase their range of services, lower costs and reach into new markets, says financial services technology firm...
View ArticleSome inroads made after ten years of the Industrial Policy Action Plan - Davies
Ramping up production in the automotive sector, resuscitating the ailing tooling industry and boosting the clothing, textiles, leather and footwear industries are among successes the government has...
View ArticleStorage gets open-source software-defined boost
The growth of software-defined storage in Africa means businesses can have a bigger storage pool with a single storage budget and can add storage resources at the scaled needed, as well as changing...
View ArticleDigital Skills Academy offers digital solution development free of charge to...
Digital Skills Academy – a premier industry provider of online BSc degrees in digital skills – is inviting South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to register as industry partners and...
View ArticleSchramm appoints HUD as sub-Saharan Africa hammers, bits distributor
Equipment manufacturer Schramm Hammers & Bits has appointed HUD Mining Supplies as its reverse circulation (RC) consumables distributor for sub-Saharan Africa.
View ArticleCCP 12J appoints DRA Group as technical partner
Mining engineering firm DRA Group will act as a technical partner to mining-focused venture capital company CCP 12J Fund in respect of engineering and outsourced operations and maintenance services.
View ArticleDatatec optimistic about full Westcon turnaround within two years
International information and communications technology company Datatec expects its embattled Westcon International portfolio to return to profitability within the next year, with a full turnaround...
View ArticlePwC suggests reviewing corporate culture to combat economic crime
Digital innovation and technology have given rise to new attack surfaces for economic criminals and fraudsters, resulting in the rate of instances growing at exponential levels, PwC’s 2018 ‘Global...
View ArticleTribunal to pursue alleged price-fixing, collusion in R240m Eskom tender
The Competition Tribunal has refused an application to dismiss a complaint against companies accused of alleged price-fixing and tender collusion in a R240-million tender issued by State-owned power...
View ArticleNew partnership offers turnkey STO solutions
At Marcus Evans' tenth annual Chemical/Petrochemical and Refinery Shutdowns and Turnarounds Event in San Antonio, Texas, in May, US-based business management consultant KAP Project Services and...
View ArticleCivil contractor confidence falls to historic low in Q3 – CIDB
The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) business conditions survey has shown that civil contractor confidence fell by six index points to a historic...
View ArticleEOH hopes restructuring will create new growth platform
JSE-listed information technology group EOH has separated into two companies as part of its work to renew the business and position it for growth. The EOH-branded information and communication...
View ArticleComputicket to appeal R20m Competition Tribunal fine
Ticketing provider Computicket on Monday said it would appeal a decision by the Competition Tribunal that it used dominance between 2005 and 2010 relating to exclusive agreements with inventory...
View ArticleEOH Microsoft licence partnership woes deepen
JSE-listed information technology services company EOH announced in a statement on Monday that it had, on March 12, received a 30-day notice period from software multinational Microsoft Ireland of its...
View ArticleEOH expects Microsoft investigations to be completed by end-May
JSE-listed information technology services group EOH expects the investigations into alleged impropriety in the resale of multinational technology company Microsoft’s licences to be completed by the...
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