Steinmüller Africa secured nine awards at the 2025 Eskom Welding Awards, led by three site-level honours for consistent world-class welding performance at Kendal and Camden Power Stations. Building on this site-wide achievement, Steinmüller Africa’s welders also claimed six individual awards, all earned on a single, measurable discipline: high-quality butt weldsContinue Reading
As South Africa’s coal industry navigates ongoing operational and environmental challenges, there is a renewed emphasis on practical, regionally focused support models developed by companies serving the mining sector, particularly coal. Mpumalanga province lies at the heart of this industry, contributing approximately 81% of the nation’s coal production and housingContinue Reading
South Africa has cemented its position as a global centre for the production of Weir’s cutting edge ENDURON® Elite banana screens. Backed by major infrastructure investment at Weir’s Alrode facility in Gauteng, this site is now the first in the world dedicated solely to manufacturing this advanced new range. TheContinue Reading
The organisers of the DRC-Africa Battery Metals Forum have announced the launch of a new, co-located event to this flagship annual gathering in Kolwezi, namely, the DRC Critical Minerals & Industrialisation Forum. “The successful 2025 edition of DRC-Africa Battery Metals Forum reaffirmed that industrialisation is the key to transforming theContinue Reading
Bradman Lake, a global leader in packaging technology, has successfully engineered and commissioned a customised cartoning and shrink-wrapping solution for Birds Eye, part of the Nomad Foods Group. Installed at Birds Eye’s flagship Lowestoft facility, the system is designed to efficiently package up to 770 individual potato waffles per minuteContinue Reading
Environmental stewardship and sustainability will undoubtedly stimulate discussion at this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town – with Omnia Holdings company BME’s teams from its blasting solutions and mining chemicals divisions on hand to offer their insights. According to Dr Ramesh Dhoorgapersadh, General Manager: Operational Excellence &Continue Reading
Best known for its work in dry bulk materials handling, Weba Chute Systems has successfully applied its depth of expertise to resolve transfer point challenges in the wet plant of an iron ore mine in Sierra Leone. According to Dewald Tintinger, Technical Director at Weba Chute Systems, the mine wasContinue Reading
HAVER & BOECKER expands its QUAT2RO® AI product suite — including QUAT2RO® MATEXcheck and QUAT2RO® VALVEcheck — with the addition of QUAT2RO® BAGcheck and QUAT2RO® SEALcheck for industrial packing and filling in the cement, building materials, food and chemical industries. The new AI-powered QUAT2RO® BAGcheck prevents the use of incorrectContinue Reading
The world premiere of a documentary film depicting an extraordinary, record-breaking underground marathon drew an audience of hundreds on the second day of the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2026 today. The movie World’s Deepest Marathon follows novice and seasoned runners – including representatives from 20 mining companies – asContinue Reading
. In the face of tariffs, immigration curbs, reduced development funding and growing nationalism, conventional wisdom suggests Africa faces strong geopolitical headwinds. However, the apparent disorder may have a significant upside for the continent. This emerged from a passionate debate on the main stage on Day 2 of Investing inContinue Reading
