April 2011
This month we do a photo montage of two exhibitions: The CONEXPO-AGG in Las Vegas and locally, Automechanika 2011, held at the Johannesburg Expo Centre.
The huge Conexpo event was extremely well attended, attracting nearly 120 000 registered attendees and despite continued uncertainty in the US construction markets, industry professionals flocked to the Las Vegas Convention Centre where an atmosphere of hopeful optimism prevailed. There was so much to see and unfortunately, much of it won't be on our shores any time soon, but made for a fascinating visit nevertheless.
Automechnika 2011 saw streams of visitors pouring into the biennial international trade fair for the automotive aftermarket. With former president and current deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe giving the keynote address at a round table executive breakfast arranged by the Motor Industry Staff Association, the tone was set for professionalism and diversity.
For our Industry Insight article, CEN had a chance to speak with Dirk van Dyke, CEO of the National Tool Initiative Programme (NTIP) in an effort to ascertain what role it is playing in resolving the dire skill shortage that besets South Africa. There is some innovative thinking behind the programme.
So, be informed and enjoy the read!
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Company Profile
From its humble beginnings in Kwa-Zulu Natal eleven years ago, Action Training Academy (ATA) has since emerged as one of South Africa's frontrunners in occupational health and safety (OHS) and emergency medicine training. CEN went behind the scenes to see how they attained this status.
Trucks: On-road
BHL Zambia, in collaboration with Top Trailer and Flexi Manufacturing are collectively launching a revolutionary dual purpose trailer, the BUCKSTA. The uniqueness of this trailer is it can haul dry bulk product like chrome in one direction and liquid bulk like molasses in another direction on the return leg in separate stainless steel tanks. Read about it on page 14.
Freight and logistics: Fleet management
Read how specialists in rail and road in-motion weighing systems, SA Automation, offer their locally designed and manufactured Datarail 100 and Dataroad 100 systems in both an assize approved version specific for trade requirements and in a low-cost non-certified version for use as a simple check scale.
Next month:
CEN takes a look at how exactly the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan has had ramifications around the globe and on a higher note, we run our second Lifting feature of the year.
