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Aspen extends rally after CEO flags vaccine, diabetes deals
2nd March 2023 By: Bloomberg

Aspen Pharmacare Holdings shares extended their rally after the chief executive officer of Africa’s largest drugmaker said it has agreed to deals to produce more vaccines and other treatments for... 


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Fujifilm opens new head office in South Africa
23rd February 2023 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Photographic and imaging company Fujifilm South Africa has officially opened its new local head office, located at 18 Holt street, in Sandton, Johannesburg. The opening of the newly built building... 


Adcock Ingram grows revenue, profit; querying low single exit price increase
21st February 2023 By: Schalk Burger

JSE-listed pharmaceuticals manufacturer Adcock Ingram has increased its revenue and gross profit by 8% year-on-year for the six-month period ended December 31. Its trading profit also increased by... 


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KAP’s interim revenue up 12%, but earnings down 2% on lower demand
21st February 2023 By: Donna Slater

Diversified industrial, chemical and logistics group KAP Industrial increased its revenue for the six months ended December 31 by 12% year-on-year to R15.26-billion but earnings before interest,... 


DSI, pharmaceutical association to collaborate on healthcare R&D
27th January 2023 By: Yvonne Silaule

The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (IPASA) this week signed a... 


South Africa to offer additional coronavirus booster shots to most vulnerable
21st December 2022 By: Bloomberg

South Africa plans to offer additional Covid-19 booster vaccines to people at highest risk of complications associated with the disease. The government intends making top-up inoculations available... 


Clinton-backed initiative ships Pfizer Covid drugs to Africa
19th December 2022 By: Bloomberg

The Covid Treatment Quick Start Consortium delivered its first shipment of Paxlovid, a Covid-19 treatment made by Pfizer, to Africa on Monday with 1 000 courses of the drug arriving in Zambia. The... 


Aspen to receive $30m from CEPI, Gates Foundation to improve Africa’s vaccine access
12th December 2022 By: Schalk Burger

JSE-listed pharmaceutical company Aspen has reached an agreement for $30-million of grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations... 


Global market for green hydrogen derivatives such as ammonia emerging
2nd December 2022 By: Darren Parker

According to the World Platinum Investment Council, there are signs that a global market in green hydrogen or green hydrogen derivatives is emerging, with more than 80 announcements between 2020... 


Cilo Cybin announces unsuccessful JSE listing
23rd November 2022 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Cannabis pharmaceuticals and health device manufacturer Cilo Cybin says it has missed the set timeframe required to list as a special purpose acquisition company on the JSE. Although the... 


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South African company to receive the capability to locally manufacture cholera vaccine
23rd November 2022 By: Rebecca Campbell

South African biopharmaceutical company Biovac and South Korea-based international non-profit organisation the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) jointly announced in Cape Town on Wednesday that... 


Omnia sees further growth in targeted sectors, interim earnings up 30%
22nd November 2022 By: Donna Slater

JSE-listed diversified chemicals producer Omnia grew its interim earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, excluding its Zimbabwean operations and impairments, by 30%... 


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Three-millionth valve controller sold
11th November 2022

Last month, global designer and manufacturer Emerson announced that a customer in China has recently purchased the three-millionth Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controller for use in the water... 


Four large valves on a blue chevron background made by Variant Air and distributed by Stewarts & Lloyds
Local supplier adds valves to portfolio
11th November 2022 By: Halima Frost

Steel, tube and valve supplier Stewarts & Lloyds’ Pipes & Fittings division has received its first consignment of vacuum break valves from local valve manufacturer Variant Air and has distributed... 


Industry embraces biocatalysis at CSIR conference
3rd November 2022

Researchers from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in conjunction with industry counterparts, have pooled efforts to use biocatalysis – a green production method – to help... 


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Inaugural South Africa Auto Week highlights sector’s significance on continent  
26th October 2022 By: Marleny Arnoldi

African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretary-general Wamkele Mene has said the automotive sector is at the heart of Africa’s industrialisation and can play a vital part in the global... 


Africa Microscopy Initiative Imaging Centre boasts quality equipment
19th October 2022 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

What is posited to be Africa’s most advanced imaging facility opened in Cape Town on October 19, boasting some of world’s best optical microscopes now available at no cost to scientists across the... 


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Health solutions company on track for JSE listing
5th October 2022

Pharmaceutical, biotech and biohacking company Cilo Cybin is in the process of listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the hopes to expand its business, both in South Africa as well as abroad. 


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Cilo Cybin progressing with JSE listing, expansion plans
30th September 2022 By: Donna Slater

Midrand-based cannabis pharmaceuticals and health device manufacturer Cilo Cybin intends to use capital raised during its planned JSE listing to ramp up cannabis product production, as well as... 


Remgro’s full-year headline earnings recover to above pre-pandemic levels
27th September 2022 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Investment holding company Remgro recorded a strong financial year ended June 30, despite headwinds that the company says can be regarded as extreme events, which disrupted the global and local... 


Humidification solutions to make maintenance easier
23rd September 2022 By: Nadine Ramdass

Maintenance schedules depend on the type of humidifier and the humidifier application. Humidification and dehumidification equipment supplier Humidair owner Pieter Aldred notes that modern... 


Maintenance neglected amid economic constraints
23rd September 2022 By: Nadine Ramdass

Economic challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in many companies’ “skimping” on air-conditioning maintenance, as it is viewed as an unnecessary additional expense, says... 


Europe’s call for medical cannabis sees South African firm thrive
11th September 2022 By: Bloomberg

Booming demand for medicinal cannabis from Europe to Australia has seen a South African producer sell all of its output for next year in advance. SafriCanna signed sale deals with Germany and... 


First African cannabis SPAC to go ahead with Cilo Cybin listing
9th September 2022 By: Bloomberg

Africa is about to get its first listing of a medical cannabis-focused SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, when Cilo Cybin raises money in Johannesburg later this year. The company is... 


A large agitator propeller installed inside a tank, with a man under the blades checking them.
Local manufacturer boasts impressive export capacity
9th September 2022 By: Halima Frost

Mixing and pumping equipment manufacturer Afromix’s AMX range of agitators comprises the lion’s share of its global exports, which accounts for about 80% of the company’s revenue.  The company’s... 


Local vaccine production, manufacturing key to combatting burden of disease
7th September 2022 By: Schalk Burger

Africa must continue to pursue, and drive the recent momentum in, the establishment of vaccine production capabilities and capacity on the continent to combat diseases and ensure healthy societies.... 


Aspen, India's Serum Institute sign vaccines deal for Africa
31st August 2022 By: Reuters

Aspen Pharmacare has signed a deal with the Serum Institute of India to manufacture and sell four Aspen-branded vaccines for Africa, as it seeks to utilise its near-idle Covid-19 vaccine production... 


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Company stresses need for women’s PPE
26th August 2022 By: Cameron Mackay

Women’s safety wear manufacturer Sisi Safety Wear is continuously educating the local market on the need to procure personal protective equipment (PPE) designed for the growing female workforce,... 


Africa Health aims to accelerate overcoming of continental healthcare resource deficit
24th August 2022 By: Donna Slater

Despite accounting for only 15% of the global population, Africa has historically borne a disproportionate 25% share of the global disease burden, while only 2% of the world’s research output is... 


Part of billionaire Soon-Shiong’s Africa vaccine plant for rent
24th August 2022 By: Bloomberg

Part of a Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plant in South Africa launched by US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong and President Cyril Ramaphosa is available to rent after a plunge in demand for... 


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Sasol prepares to ramp up decarbonisation capex from 2025
23rd August 2022 By: Terence Creamer

Energy and chemicals group Sasol expects to invest the bulk of the R15-billion to R25-billion it is budgeting to facilitate a 30% reduction in its carbon emissions by 2030 between 2025 and 2027,... 


Adcock to report up to 25% increase in full-year earnings
18th August 2022 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE-listed pharmaceutical group Adcock Ingram Holdings expects to report a 24% to 25% year-on-year increase in earnings per share (EPS) to between 492c and 495c for the financial year ended June... 


Bill Gates’ TerraPower raises $750m for cheaper nuclear
15th August 2022 By: Bloomberg

Bill Gates-backed TerraPower raised at least $750-million to advance efforts to develop small-scale nuclear reactors, including a major investment from South Korean conglomerate SK Group. SK will... 


Omnia Group CEO Seelan Gobalsamy
Omnia’s Gobalsamy wins award
12th August 2022 By: Darren Parker

Diversified chemicals company Omnia Group CEO Seelan Gobalsamy has been announced as the winner of the CEO Today Africa Awards 2022. This is the second year in a row that Gobalsamy has received the... 


Labat Africa once again partners with CSIR to accelerate cannabis projects
12th August 2022 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE-listed venture capital company Labat Africa has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to fast-track implementation of various... 


The ET3 system comprising a multichannel data logger, precision thermocouples and a thermal barrier that enables the logger with a screen and logging system laid out in display
Tracking system well received locally
12th August 2022 By: Halima Frost

Automation and control solutions provider Raytek & Control (R&C) Instrumentation says its newest heat tracking system, the Easy Track 3 (ET3), has been well received by the local automotive... 


New probe developed
12th August 2022

Japanese multinational electrical engineering and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed an explosion-proof version of its TDLS8200 probe type tunable diode laser... 


Aspen to halt Covid vaccine output as J&J orders dry up
10th August 2022 By: Reuters

South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will stop making Covid-19 vaccines from the end of this month due to a lack of orders, a senior executive said, further undermining Africa's already meager capacity... 


Natref supply partially restored, Sasol’s full-year production decreases
25th July 2022 By: Donna Slater

Chemicals and petrochemicals producer Sasol reports that crude oil supply has been partially restored from its majority-owned Sasolburg-based Natref refinery, after the company declared a force... 


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