In South Africa’s safety-critical industries, a single breathalyser reading can carry serious consequences - from removing a worker from a site to defending a dismissal at the CCMA. Yet workplace alcohol testing operates in an environment with limited formal regulation, leaving employers exposed when results are challenged.

Trafo Power Solutions’ early-stage involvement in mining projects allows customers to design electrical infrastructure that can scale and adapt as their operations evolve, avoiding costly re-engineering later. By engaging from the concept phase, the company helps mines plan for shifting equipment layouts and changing load requirements, ensuring transformers and substations are future-ready from the outset.

Glass is one of the most recyclable materials, offering endless opportunities to reduce waste, save energy and create new value streams across industries from construction to filtration. Pilot Crushtec is enabling this transition with its modular crushing and screening plants which efficiently convert waste glass into high quality cullet ready for reuse.

As mines, quarries and aggregate producers face rising costs, tighter margins, skills shortages and increasing pressure to improve safety and reduce their environmental impact, mobility is emerging as one of the most effective levers to improve operational resilience.

Bobcat has announced the introduction of the AutoShift transmission in the B730 M-Series backhoe loader, alongside a number of other updates to this model aimed at markets in the Middle East and Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).