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Neometals completes pilot work
2nd April 2020 By: Esmarie Iannucci

ASX-listed Neometals ahs completed the pilot plant test work on its lithium-ion battery recycling technology, meeting all technical objectives set and confirming the recovery of high purity... 


WIDE SCOPE
SMS group will present solutions for the full range of manufacturing materials for tube and wire products
Company to present innovations at trade fair
20th March 2020

Metallurgical industry plant and integrated systems provider SMS group will present its new plant concepts and innovations at the Tube and Wire Trade Fair taking place from March 30 to April 3,... 


Digitalisation beneficial for steel producers
28th February 2020 By: Mamaili Mamaila

Digitalisation will become an increasingly important strategy for steel producers to achieve a competitive advantage in the market, says metallurgical industry plant and integrated systems provider... 


Rising connectivity lays path for digital economy in Africa
31st January 2020 By: Natasha Odendaal

Increasing connectivity is laying the foundations for the digital economy in Africa, however, several challenges still need to be overcome for the continent to fully leverage the opportunities a... 


MTN relaunches MoMo in South Africa
24th January 2020 By: Natasha Odendaal

JSE-listed telecommunications group MTN is going live with its mobile money (MoMo) service in South Africa. The company’s third attempt at deploying MoMo services in the country follows the... 


Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
10th January 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

TNG has signed a term sheet for a life-of-mine offtake agreement for the entire high-purity iron-ore product to be produced at the project. 


MORE THAN JUST A METAL
Copper is more than just a mined metal – it not only provides jobs but also promotes a higher standard of living
Recent developments bode well for copper, copper alloys
6th December 2019 By: Mamaili Mamaila

Several developments are making copper and copper alloys increasingly important, says metallurgical industry plant and integrated systems provider SMS group. 


Company to unpack copper wire rod plant at inaugural wire conference
8th November 2019 By: Shannon de Ryhove

Metallurgical industry plant and integrated systems provider SMS group will present its modular compacROD copper wire rod plant during the inaugural Africa Wire, Cable & Tube Conference, for which... 


NETWORKING
 Event to address business opportunities for local producers and manufacturers seeking to establish new trade partnerships with international stakeholders
Conference attracts industry leaders, focuses on trade and productivity
8th November 2019

As interest in the market potential of Africa grows, the inaugural CRU Africa Wire, Cable and Tube Conference is perfectly timed to address the business opportunities for local producers and... 


Mobile giant takes another crack at mobile-money market
1st November 2019 By: Natasha Odendaal

MoMo forms a critical part of the group’s growth prospects, and MTN South Africa is confident that MoMo can mimic the success of telephony and the Internet being revolutionised and democratised... 


Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
18th October 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

TNG has optimised its planned execution and delivery strategy for the project. 


Proudly South African anticable theft technology already deployed on 12 sites
11th October 2019 By: Martin Creamer

It has been said that entering the Elvey Security Technologies headquarters in the Greenstone Hill Office Park, in Modderfontein, Edenvale, is like boarding USS Enterprise on a Star Trek movie set.... 


SOLVING A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM Hudaco executive director Louis Meiring (left) and Commercial ICT MD Brad Morein in futuristic demonstration room.
Proudly South African anti-cable theft technology already deployed on 12 sites
30th September 2019 By: Martin Creamer

It has been said that entering the Elvey Security Technologies headquarters in the Greenstone Hill Office Park, in Modderfontein, Edenvale, is like boarding USS Enterprise on a Star Trek movie set.... 


KEEP ROLLING ROLLING ROLLING
A cold rolling production line supplied to an international client by SMS group
Extrusion press concept for aluminium sector developed
27th September 2019 By: Halima Frost

As a global service partner for clients, metallurgical industry plant and integrated systems provider, SMS group has developed a concept for extrusion presses offering significant flexibility and... 


TNG unveils new plans for Mt Peake
11th September 2019 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Strategic metals company TNG has set its sight on an optimised two-million-tonne-a-year development for its Mt Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, in the Northern Territory, which has the... 


Burbanks mill gets new buyer
10th September 2019 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Junior gold company Maximus Resources has entered into a new asset sale agreement for its Burbanks gold mill, in Western Australia. The ASX-listed company has reached an agreement with Mineral... 


Company launches management solution
6th September 2019

Petroleum products and solutions provider Masana Petroleum Solutions has extended its long-standing strategic partnership with oil industry company BP Southern Africa (BPSA) – which jointly runs... 


SA firm at forefront of adding commerce string to chat platform’s bow
SA firm at forefront of adding commerce string to chat platform’s bow
6th September 2019 By: Natasha Odendaal

Chat-based customer engagement is on the rise as businesses work to stay ahead of the curve in an environment driven by consumer behaviour and change. The rapidly evolving digital age requires... 


MTN advances fintech ambitions
23rd August 2019 By: Natasha Odendaal

Telecommunications giant MTN Group is making progress on plans to relaunch Mobile Money (MoMo) in South Africa, while MTN Nigeria has been cleared to launch the first phase of its financial... 


GOOD INTENTIONS 
Steasa intends to foster closer collaborative agreements between the downstream steel tube and pipe industry and the primary industry
Steel crucial in Africa’s industrialisation aspirations
16th August 2019 By: Mamaili Mamaila

South Africa and Africa more broadly are attempting to develop their economies through industrialisation and steel forms the basic material of choice for this economic transformation, says the... 


SMS Group
SMS Group
19th July 2019

SMS group is a global, leading partner for the metals industry. Headquartered in Germany, established since 1871, quality and innovation is in our DNA. As a single source systems and processing... 


Tulkubash oxide gold project, Kyrgyzstan
Tulkubash oxide gold project, Kyrgyzstan
19th July 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

An updated bankable feasibility study has produced a 22.18-million-tonne reserve. 


HIGH TECH LEAPS
US steel producer Big River Steel is the first learning steel plant in the world
Creating innovative digitalisation solutions
5th July 2019

The steel industry faces its own set of challenges and metallurgical plant supplier SMS group MD Pieter Bezuidenhout says digitalisation is vital in navigating these challenges. 


Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
5th July 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

TNG has signed binding heads of agreement with rail operator Genesee & Wyoming Australia to provide rail haulage services for the project. 


New drive technology meets industry demands
21st June 2019

The current trend of rolling high-strength materials requires higher torque capabilities at the drive train in metallurgical plants and stainless steel technical services and products provider SMS... 


Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
17th May 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

TNG has signed a binding life-of-mine offtake and marketing agreement for all the titanium dioxide pigment to be produced at its Mount Peake project. 


Vodacom, Samsung team up for OneNumber and first eSim wearable
29th March 2019 By: Natasha Odendaal

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... 


MANSHIL SINGH
SMS group is working on several project opportunities spanning various market segments of the company
SMS group helping clients understand benefit of digitalisation
1st March 2019 By: Jessica Oosthuizen

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... 


Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
30th November 2018 By: Sheila Barradas

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


Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland
Gold Fields warns striking workers there will be no ‘sweetener’ deals
28th November 2018 By: Nadine James

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... 


TNG raises A$3.8m from shareholders
8th November 2018 By: Esmarie Iannucci

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... 


FEED studies planned at Mt Peake
2nd November 2018 By: Esmarie Iannucci

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... 


Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
Mount Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, Australia
2nd November 2018 By: Sheila Barradas

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. 


Solwara 1 seafloor copper/gold project, Papua New Guinea
Solwara 1 seafloor copper/gold project, Papua New Guinea
23rd February 2018 By: Sheila Barradas

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


Poor market conditions lead to diversification
8th September 2017 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Owing to tough ferrochrome and ferromanganese market conditions globally, process and engineering service provider Metix has had to widen its focus beyond ferrous metals and target the processing... 


ALTERNATIVE POWER 
Five mobile transformers delivered to Eskom’s Mkondeni unit can be used to replace existing equipment during scheduled maintenance
Five mobile transformers delivered to Mkondeni unit
19th May 2017

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... 


CEO Magara’s COO role revives memories of New Denmark success
7th April 2017 By: Martin Creamer

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... 


Nautilus shrugs off activists’ critique as ‘unscientific’
Nautilus shrugs off activists’ critique as ‘unscientific’
2nd October 2015 By: Henry Lazenby

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,... 


Solwara 1 seafloor copper/gold project, Papua New Guinea
Solwara 1 seafloor copper/gold project, Papua New Guinea
2nd October 2015 By: Sheila Barradas

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


While first steel gets cut for Nautilus’s support vessel, critics ramp up opposition
29th September 2015 By: Henry Lazenby

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... 


Pieter Bezuidenhout
Pieter Bezuidenhout
12th September 2014 By: Ilan Solomons

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... 


Solwara 1 seafloor copper/gold project, Papua New Guinea
Solwara 1 seafloor copper/gold project, Papua New Guinea
16th May 2014

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. 


11/10/2013 (On-The-Air)
11/10/2013 (On-The-Air)
11th October 2013 By: Martin Creamer

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... 


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