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Organisation resolute on future infrastructure, development agendas
26th September 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

To drive economic recovery and job creation in South Africa’s steel sector, industry organisation Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) emphasises the... 


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Certainty required to drive industrial growth
26th September 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

Government must establish policy certainty if it wants to continue driving industrialisation to increase economic growth, says trade union Solidarity metals and engineering deputy general secretary... 


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Association highlights tariff implications
26th September 2025

Industry body the Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) has raised concern over new trade headwinds following the US’ imposition of an average 30% tariff on South African... 


Itac recommends temporary duty waiver for stainless steel tubing
16th September 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has recommended that a temporary rebate provision be created for the importation of stainless steel tubing used in the... 


Glencore Allloys CEO Japie Fullard
Glencore to meet with Ramokgopa in bid to save smelters
16th September 2025 By: Bloomberg

Glencore will meet with the South African government this week to seek ways to prevent smelters that make a key stainless steel ingredient from shedding thousands of jobs as they grapple with... 


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New tech-driven welding programme launched
12th September 2025 By: Halima Frost

This month sees the option to study laser welding – a new technology-driven training programme – being formally added to the Southern African Institute of Welding’s (SAIW’s) training portfolio.... 


Mathe Group's Minenhle Mkhize and Dr Mehran Zarrebini inspect de-beaded steel wire taken from the side wall of a truck tyre
Mathe Group to export steel recovered from waste tyres to India, South Korea
8th September 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Radial truck tyre recycling company Mathe Group has commissioned new equipment, including a new clean steel mill with an automated packaging line and several de-beading machines, to extract... 


Steel
Firms across steel value chain gear up to reply to Itac’s sweeping tariff proposal
27th August 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Companies across South Africa’s steel value chain are gearing up to submit responses to a preliminary determination by the International Trade Commission of South Africa (Itac) that proposes the... 


Steasa CEO Keitumetse Moumakoe
South African steel tube exporters to participate in Nigeria, Ghana trade mission
22nd August 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Industry body the Steel Tube Export Association of South Africa (Steasa) will participate in an outward selling mission (OSM) to Nigeria and Ghana from August 25 to 30 as part of efforts to... 


Macsteel retrenches 39 employees, 253 accept voluntary severance packages as it undergoes restructuring
21st August 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Steel merchandiser and distributor Macsteel has confirmed that 39 employees, or 1.4% of its total workforce, received formal notices of retrenchment on August 18, while 253 employees have accepted... 


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AI, automation optimise high-temperature work environment
8th August 2025

Metal production technologies company Primetals Technologies has been awarded a contract by steel producer JSW Steel Salem Works to implement advanced process optimisation solutions at the Salem... 


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New technology enhances operationality
8th August 2025

Metals and technologies supplier SMS group in June announced a partnership with US-based metal innovation and technologies company The Systems Group, to deliver safer, more sustainable and... 


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US tariffs expected to have significant impact on metals, engineering sector, Seifsa warns
4th August 2025 By: Darren Parker

The 30% tariff on South African exports to the US is expected to have a significant and multidimensional impact on the South African metals and engineering sector, Steel and Engineering Industries... 


a metal steel cut chair frame for a car
Manufacturer anticipates good connections
1st August 2025 By: Halima Frost

The 2025 iteration of the National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers (NAACAM) Show will be attended by automotive components manufacturers and suppliers from across South... 


Innovating stainless steel solutions across industries in South Africa
11th July 2025

Founded in 2010 with a strong vision to be a reliable, technically capable, and customer-focused supplier of stainless steel fasteners in South Africa, Fastenright has become a trusted partner... 


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Cabinet endorses support for SA's embattled ferrochrome sector
4th July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the plan endorsed by Cabinet to support South Africa embattled ferrochrome sector through export restriction on chrome ore and lower electricity... 


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On-site gas generation provides direct control
4th July 2025 By: Lynne Davies

As global logistics and energy markets become more volatile, oxygen equipment supplier O2Africa offers locally manufactured, on-site gas generation systems that enable steel manufacturers to have... 


CSIR now producing stainless steel powder for 3D printing
19th May 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) can now provide the local additive manufacturing (AM – popularly called 3D printing) sector with 316L stainless steel powder on a pilot... 


dtic imposes duties on hot-rolled steel in line with Itac determination
5th May 2025 By: Schalk Burger

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) has published a notice in the Government Gazette to impose safeguard duties on imports of hot-rolled steel products. This is after the... 


Electric Steel Producers warns of wider sector job losses amid scrap shortages, AMSA bailout
24th April 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Industry organisation the Electric Steel Producers of South Africa says a financial bailout of the long steel operations of troubled steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) will further... 


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Association highlights stagnation of localisation levels
11th April 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

Faced with many domestic and global obstacles over the past five years, the automotive sector is tracking behind the growth targets it set out to achieve when South Africa’s Automotive Industry... 


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Localisation policies can benefit stainless-steel sector
4th April 2025

South Africa’s stainless-steel industry is under pressure owing to increasing imports of finished steel products and declining local manufacturing, says industry body Southern Africa Stainless... 


A picture of stainless-steel products in a warehouse
Volatile global demand negatively affecting steel, associated industries
4th April 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

Shrinking local and global demand for steel, owing to an oversupply of raw and processed variants – especially in China – and increased imports are the main causes for the declining steel and... 


An image of a welder manufacturing a steel component
Stainless welding solutions promising despite outlook
4th April 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

Local steel supply shortages and the increased reliance on imports, owing to the, at the time of writing, anticipated shutdown of ArcelorMittal’s long-steel plants, could have a negative impact on... 


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New steel mills will benefit industry, enhance economy
4th April 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

To revive the South African steel and stainless-steel industry, reduce job losses therein, and improve support for local manufacturing of stainless-steel goods, International Zinc Association... 


Steel firms run ‘collateral damage’ risk if they fail to respond to big Itac tariff review
Steel firms run ‘collateral damage’ risk if they fail to respond to big Itac tariff review
28th March 2025 By: Terence Creamer

A leading trade adviser is urging companies and individuals with interests in South Africa’s steel value chain to respond to the International Trade Administration Commission’s (Itac’s) call for... 


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Stainless-steel components aid food safety
14th March 2025

Industrial equipment supplier BMG has highlighted the significance of its stainless-steel components in enhancing food safety. BMG’s team of fastener specialists advises food and beverage plants to... 


Seifsa lauds dtic's Industrialisation Think Tank, but questions lack of steel representation
31st January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Industry organisation the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) applauds the establishment of an Industrialisation Think Tank housed within the Department of... 


Global steel production increased 5.6% in December
24th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Global crude steel production for the 71 countries reporting to industry organisation World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 144.5-million tonnes in December, which is a 5.6% increase compared... 


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Security guards foil robbery attempt at Public Works House
23rd January 2025 By: Darren Parker

Security personnel stationed at the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure’s (DPWI’s) Public Works House, in the central business district (CBD) of Pretoria, foiled efforts on the eve of... 


Steel pipes
Much at stake as Itac moves on ‘flagship’ review of steel tariffs
15th January 2025 By: Terence Creamer

The review of South Africa’s steel tariff structure set to be undertaken by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has been described as the largest ever and is,... 


South Africa needs strong steel policies or risks losing more manufacturing, Memsa warns
14th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Localisation policies and incentives for manufacturers must be restored and expanded to shield the South African economy from further de-industrialisation, with the closure of steel producer... 


SEIFSA CEO Lucio Trentini
Strong policies and partnerships needed to boost steel industry – SEIFSA
8th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

The de-industrialisation trend plaguing South Africa’s metals and engineering sector stems from the absence of a well-considered and all-encompassing metals sector industrial policy, says Steel and... 


Closure of AMSA operations to devastate communities, local manufacturing, warns NUMSA
7th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has raised alarm over troubled steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa’s (AMSA’s) decision to shut down its Newcastle and Vereeniging Works,... 


A man wearing PPE and Gloves cutting sheet steel for SteelTech in Edenvale
Steel supply company offered ESD opportunity
22nd November 2024

Edenvale-based steel supplier SteelTech Trading is one of two companies that will benefit from a significant enterprise and supplier development (ESD) programme, which has been launched by Astec... 


A steel footbridge being built in Sunderland
Delivery of steel bridge sections completed successfully
22nd November 2024

Heavy lifting transportation service provider Mammoet has succeeded in performing the heavy lift and heavy transport of all four New Wear Footbridge steel sections for the project being spearheaded... 


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Group against scrapping scrap export tax
22nd November 2024

The electric steel producers of South Africa are calling on government to keep the export tax on scrap steel in place as it helps ensure the viability of greener domestic steel production by... 


The above image depicts SKF and voestalpine Wire Technology spherical roller bearing prototype
Collaboration produces first successful H-DRI prototype bearing
8th November 2024

Engineering consultant SKF and steel-based technology company voestalpine Wire Technology earlier this year successfully produced the first prototype bearing made from steel that contains hydrogen... 


A factory manufacturing steel components with a furnace in the foreground
Carbon-intensive power will hinder local manufacturers
18th October 2024 By: Halima Frost

It is anticipated that the implementation of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which will take effect in 2026, will significantly affect the South African manufacturing sector,... 


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