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March 2024
 

The power of the independent press still holds sway

Navigating South Africa’s transition from the NQF to OQSF framework – why meeting the 2024 June 30 deadline matters

COVER STORY: In focus with Victor Taichung South Africa: Talking to Dudley

Technipunch looks after its engine room

Trax Engineering gets going as a fabricator

ITAC investigation into the alleged dumping of flat-rolled products

Duncan Macdonald appointed South Africa agent Assfalg industrial lifting magnets and surface finishing technology equipment

Mintek adds a laser powder bed fusion 3D printer to array of cutting-edge technology

Machine Tools Africa 2024 for everything that twists, turns, rotates, cuts, forms, bends or shapes

KYB Academy opens new technical training facility in Potchefstroom for artisan careers and skills in the engineering, mining and manufacturing space

Naamsa welcomes government’s strategy to support the transition to electric vehicles

Glencore encouraged by collaboration between miners and car manufacturers

Volkswagen builds 1.5-millionth export vehicle

Denel concluding Hoefyster development but fewer vehicles to be manufactured

Port inefficiency threatens to overtake load shedding as single biggest threat to national wellbeing

Coleus Packaging in a new PMC 500 crown manufacturing machine

Major blow for one of South Africa’s biggest employers

South African platinum industry could shed up to 7 000 jobs to cut costs

3C Metal Belmet South Africa wins order to fabricate main frame structural steelwork for De Beers Marine’s generation crawlers

South Africa could be a nuclear reactor exporting country

Leading Edge fabricating

LEDA Group – Internationally recognised leaders in precision engineering services for the dairy industry

Helical Motion: Iscar

German machine tool industry expecting a decline in production in 2024

Steel industry giants lead ‘green steel’ shift towards sustainable manufacturing

GrindingHub 2024 exhibition expands

Italian machine tool market looks toward 2024

Mazak commences in-house production of ‘Mineral Cast’ machine tool bases

Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Association reports rise in sales

BAE Systems shows off mystery drone at defence show

Trumpf and The Exploration Company cooperate with 3D printing

Umati reveals new members

Machine tool manufacturer Heller celebrates 130th anniversary

Ferrous scrap is emerging as a key strategic raw material

DMG MORI Open House 2024 in Pfronten focused on process integration, automation, digital transformation (DX) and green transformation (GX)

Sandvik Coromant’s net-zero target

ModuleWorks partners with DN Solutions to develop machine tool software

Taiwan tightens export controls after report of Russian arms use

Kennametal’s HARVI I TE 4-flute solid-carbide endmill

DMG MORI’s new PH Cell 500, a modular system for handling machine pallets

Iscar introduces new trepanning cartridges carrying MINCUT inserts mounted on ITSBORE boring head

TaeguTec’s premium high-feed milling line, WIN-4-FEED has been expanded

AMADA has released its next-generation large press brakes in the HRB Series

Sandvik Coromant’s CoroDrill 860 with -SD geometry

Hurco’s VM30i now available as a Plus version