Attached please find a press release on: One of South Africa's leading mobile crane operators, Target Cranes, has been awarded a substantial level 3 contributor to BEE rating, with a procurement recognition level of 110%, as confirmed by BEE verification

In an ongoing drive to remain the mining contractor of choice, to be an employer of choice and to attract high calibre employees, Murray & Roberts Cementation recently launched the ‘1st Choice' programme according to Theunis Mienie, HR director of Murray & Roberts Cementation.

SGS was issued United States Patent No. 7,596,419 on September 29, 2009, for their inspection system for performing retro Positive Material Identification.

Australian Exhibitions & Conferences (AEC), organiser of Australia’s leading Safety Trade Shows, have announced that the WA Safety Show 2010 will be held 24-26 August at Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. The event will provide suppliers of OHS and materials handling equipment and services with a forum at which to make the most of the anticipated economic improvements.

Attached please find a press release on: Weir Warman Africa's Warman SLR is a new ‘Medium' duty pump range designed for slurry handling duties in the mining and chemical industries where the use of a heavy duty pump cannot be justified.

Bucyrus will supply Whitehaven Coal's North Narrabri mine with a 300-meter longwall with a capacity of 8 million tonnes per year. A special feature of the 146 Bucyrus roof supports is that they can be retrofitted for Longwall Top Coal Caving (LTCC) at a later date.

Humboldt Wedag, one of the leading suppliers of materials processing technology to the mining and industrial minerals industries in southern Africa, recently achieved a BBBEE Level 5 accreditation rating.

SEW Eurodrive South Africa was announced as the winner of the Top Gender Empowered Company award in the Mining, Engineering and Construction sector during a glamorous awards ceremony held in Johannesburg on 18 November 2009.

Africa has not benefited from its links with rich nations and should ensure economic interactions with others are not one-sided, South Africa's Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Monday.

The South African government is expected to reject a proposal by utility Eskom to triple tariffs partly because of the impact they would have on the gold sector, the chief of AngloGold Ashanti said on Wednesday.

South Africa's Chamber of Mines is calling for a new electricity dispensation for the country and a prospective Botswana-based independent power producer (IPP) is already working directly with the South African government and bypassing the troubled State-owned power utility, Eskom.

Emerging market economies, including those in Southern Africa, were showing stronger demand patterns for power and automation products and services in the wake of the global economic crisis than was the case in more established territories, ABB Global CEO Joseph Hogan told Engineering News Online on Wednesday.