JSE-listed Vodacom and technology giant Samsung have teamed up to launched a new service to allow customers to connect and link a number of devices and wearables to their primary account using the... 

Liberty Life Assurance Kenya has contracted SilverBridge to develop a paperless application form that integrates with its existing policy administrative system. This streamlines not only the... 

While there is little doubt over the hype attached to cloud computing and services, the reality is that South Africa businesses are embracing cloud, especially solutions that are being used to... 

In direct response to the systemic challenges facing government departments, the National School of Government’s (NSG’s) mandatory and compulsory programmes were launched on Monday, in Pretoria.... 

The South African arm of Germany-based metallurgical plant and rolling-mill technology provider SMS has developed strategies for advancing digitalisation in the steel industry. It is assisting... 

Digital assistance system improves yield Marcegaglia Ravenna S.p.A. has contracted SMS group 

Our immediate answer is "it remains to be seen". This is simply because the guidelines are new and their implementation is yet to be tested. In particular, a question remains whether any trade... 

High output of premium threads SMS group www.sms-group.com has received a new order from JFE Steel Corporation, Chita works, Chukyo Industrial Zone, Japan, for a premium threading machine. This new... 

With 40 years in the lifting business, Johnson Crane Hire’s expansion last year into the access rental space has given customers a whole new range of access solutions, according to Ramona van... 

TNG has been granted mineral leases for its Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project. 

JSE- and NYSE-listed Gold Fields says the settlement agreement offered to striking workers will expire at 17:00 on Friday, November 30, and warns that no further “sweetener deals” will be... 

Prometal Aciérie, Cameroon, Africa, has awarded SMS group the order to supply a new hot rolling mill for rebars, sections and wire rod. The new rolling mill will be designed for the production of... 

South-Korean Daehan Steel Co. Ltd. has placed an order with SMS group for a bar mill modernization. This new order further strengthens the longstanding cooperation between SMS group and Daehan... 

Hertwich Engineering, a subsidiary of SMS group, has received an order from Hydro Extrusion Lichtervelde NV for the supply of an Ecomelt-PS200 multi-chamber melting furnace including a skimming... 

IMImobile SA, part of IMImobile PLC - a leading global cloud communications software and solutions provider - has joined Google’s Early Access Program for RCS (Rich Communication Services) business... 

NuPay, a division of JSE-listed Altron, has launched NuPayGO, a cost-effective payment solution to accept real-time debit and credit card payments anywhere and anytime. “One of Altron’s social... 

Strategic metals company TNG has raised A$3.8-million through a share purchase plan (SPP), with the funds to be used to progress development activities at the Mt Peake vanadium/titanium/iron... 

ASX-listed TNG has appointed engineering group SMS to start front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, in the Northern Territory. Under the... 

DKSH has signed a binding term sheet with TNG to acquire all the titanium dioxide pigment produced at the Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project. 

Construction of Nautilus’s production support vessel has passed the 75% completion mark. 

ArcelorMittal Asturias (Avilés) has contracted SMS group for tailor-made conversion of slab caster No. 2 ArcelorMittal Asturias, Avilés, Spain, has contracted SMS group www.sms-group.com for a... 

Five mobile transformers were delivered to State-owned power utility Eskom’s Mkondeni unit in KwaZulu-Natal in March.  The plan to purchase the five 132/88-22/11KV mobile transformers started in... 

During his days as COO of the New Denmark Colliery, Lonmin CEO Ben Magara recalls how former Anglo Coal CEO Tony Redman instructed him to do what it took to save New Denmark from closure in the... 

apt Hiller GmbH headquartered in Monheim, Germany, has meanwhile ordered already the fourth front-loading extrusion press from SMS group www.sms-group.com. The new extrusion press operates with an... 

Central Executive Committee meeting, 30 March 2015 In what seemed a completely unreal way, the Central Executive Committee … spent time briefly discussing the Treasury’s plan for an Unemployment... 

Sweden-based Uddeholm AB Hagfors, manufacturer of tool steel for industrial tools, has successfully commissioned phase one of the modernization of the EAF fume treatment plant with latest filter... 

Bulgarian aluminum product manufacturer Alcomet AD, located in Shumen, has awarded SMS group www.sms-group.com the order to supply a flexible, modern cold rolling mill for the production of a wide... 

Telecommunications giant Vodacom and South Africa’s Department of Health (DoH) have spent the last few months deploying a mobile-based real-time system that monitors the availability of medicines... 

Uses CEM on Demand to understand and improve the daily network experience of each Safaricom customer Prioritises network investments based on customer experience insights including cell/MSISDN... 

The expansion of bar mill 2 of Lech-Stahlwerke GmbH at the Meitingen site will be completed by SMS group (www.sms-group.com) in the fall of 2017 when the mill will go into production. The scope of... 

World’s first MultiFlex-Quench® successfully commissioned by SMS group at Acroni in Slovenia On June 30th, 2016, the MultiFlex-Quench® newly developed by SMS group (www.sms-group.com) has... 

Opposition party the Democratic Alliance (DA) has announced the use of mobile messaging in during its election campaign to interact with voters and campaigners and to secure its IT infrastructure... 

Deep sea mining pioneer Nautilus Minerals is making light of an environmentalist attack on its flagship Solwara 1 copper/gold/zinc/silver project, in the Bismarck sea, earlier this week,... 

Steel cutting for Nautilus Minerals' production support vessel has started. 

Steel cutting for deep-sea mining pioneer Nautilus Minerals’ production support vessel started last week while environmentalists ramped up protests against the project, citing flawed environmental... 

Al Gharbia Pipe Company has awarded the consortium of Larsen & Toubro Limited and SMS group (www.sms-group.com) as the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) contractor with the supply of a... 

Main Activity of the Company: Engineering, manufacture and supply of processing technology, plant, equipment, components, spare parts and technical services for the steel, ferroalloys and... 

Government has paid $113-million into escrow, representing the balance of the State’s 15% share of capital required to complete the Solwara 1 offshore project up to first production. 

The Cabinet this week gave firm approval for the production of shale gas in the Karoo. This week saw another important step towards the production of valuable natural gas off the seabed of Cape... 

With the South African ‘strike season’ at its end for some industries, turning the focus on what can be done in terms of risk mitigation during labour strikes is a matter of focusing on prevention... 

Fawu accused South African Breweries (SAB) on Monday of using underhand tactics to end an ongoing strike. "Fawu is in possession of sms's sent to workers by management to lure them into abandoning... 

In Pohang, South Korean tube manufacturer SeAH Steel Corporation has taken a JCO® pipe forming press from SMS Meer, Germany, into service. Commissioning of the forming press only took two and a...