PPC, southern Africa\'s leading cement supplier, confirmed that it has a taken a decision to withdraw from the South African Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI). The cement company will redirect its funding to various research and development initiatives that will benefit the cement and concrete industry. This follows an announcement…
Portland Holdings Limited (PHL), PPC’s Zimbabwe subsidiary, has announced that it intends to construct a new cement plant to service the Harare and central Mozambique markets. The new plant will have a capacity of approximately one million tons of cement per annum and will coincide with the construction of a…
Clients, developers and contractors are often presented with a choice of flooring contractors to use for their new warehouse developments. Comparing like for like is not always straightforward and a decision based only on price could result in long term operational/maintenance issues for the warehouse operator. 1.Think long term Purely…
Twintec Industrial Flooring and Llevell Laser Floors have formed a strategic partnership for the design and construction of industrial concrete flooring throughout South Africa. The Twintec Group are recognised world leaders in steel fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC) ‘jointless’ floor slabs design and construct in excess of 6 million m2 worldwide…
Twintec Sales Manager appointed Western Cape Concrete Society Treasurer The recent annual Western Cape Concrete Society AGM was held at the Premier Cape Manor hotel. The new Committee for 2013/2014 was appointed by the members. Miss Jennifer Edwards, Sales Manager, Twintec South Africa, was appointed as the Treasurer for the…
31,300m² of ‘jointless’ SFRC floor slab has been designed and built by Twintec for the new Massbuild RDC in Midrand. Working for Archstone Construction at Atterbury’s Waterfall Business Estate, Twintec laid up to 2,350m² per day, incorporating 30kgs/m³ of high tensile strength steel fibres to deliver a 180mm thick slab…
Bongani Mabizela has spent much of his time over the past seven years nurturing a firm he hopes will one day be a big counter on the JSE. Bongani Mabizela is building an empire. He has spent much of his time over the past seven years nurturing a firm he…
Murray & Roberts is South Africa’s leading engineering and construction services company. It has delivered infrastructure throughout South and Southern Africa for more than 110 years and is today recognised as an international engineering and construction…