It is no secret that the manufacturing sector is critically important for both developed and emerging economies. From producing necessities like food for a nation to creating much-needed jobs...
Kevin Dherman 13 Dec 2019
The Shoprite Group honoured its most innovative and reliable suppliers at its annual Supplier Awards this past weekend...
19 Nov 2019
President Cyril Ramaphosa has opened South Africa's first smartphone factory at the Dube TradePort in Durban...
21 Oct 2019
Diageo, one of the world's largest producers of spirits and beers, has committed to investing $219million in renewable energy upgrades at 11 of its breweries in Africa...
8 Aug 2019
The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it will maintain its majority stake in Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, abandoning plans to refranchise its Africa bottling business...
21 May 2019
The fifth annual Condé Nast International Luxury Conference kicked off in Cape Town yesterday, bringing some of the biggest names in global luxury to African soil...
Lauren Hartzenberg 11 Apr 2019
Ramona Kasavan is taking over Africa one sanitary towel at a time. She started her company, Mimi Women, after seeing large numbers of girls missing school over their monthly menses...
Maroefah Smith 14 Mar 2019
Airbus released The Great Enabler: Aerospace in Africa, a white paper on the role of aerospace technologies in Africa...
31 Oct 2018
Ratifications are moving ahead, if slowly, on the newly signed AfCFTA - the world's largest free trade agreement (with the most member countries) since the founding of the World Trade Organization...
Richards Munang and Robert Mgendi 22 Oct 2018
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) launched its first-ever African Masters in Machine Intelligence at its AIMS Rwanda Campus...
17 Oct 2018
The framework offers a detailed look at the history of machinery in Africa and points the way towards addressing challenges and creating new opportunities to assure the successful adoption of mechanisation...
8 Oct 2018
The top 10 nominees in the African Innovation Foundation's (AIF) Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2018 have been announced...
14 Sep 2018
Manufacturing Indaba 2018 promises to be bigger and more innovative than ever before, providing the broader manufacturing industry with a roadmap and the connections to unlock their growth potential and deliver accelerated GDP growth...
Lauren Hartzenberg 28 May 2018
Ammonia is a critical ingredient in agricultural fertilisers. With a growing world population, escalating demand for food and energy and the looming perils of fossil fuel induced climate change, there is an urgent need to make ammonia synthesis more sustainable by using renewable energy sources...
Xiaofeng Feng 22 May 2018
African countries from South Africa to Ethiopia to Nigeria are pinning some of their hope for economic growth and job creation on industrialisation...
Matthew Kibby 20 Mar 2018
Plastics are incredibly useful materials with extremely diverse properties, allowing a multitude of different applications that benefit our lives...
James William Comerford 26 Feb 2018
When you think 'IoT', is your first thought newly affordable, available sensors being added to products after they've been manufactured? If it is, well I believe 2018 will change that...
Antony Bourne 5 Feb 2018
With the aim to revolutionise the farming industry as well as increase their market reach and revenue, organisations have been gearing up for new robotic technologies in recent years...
Piyush Mandhare 18 Jan 2018
African countries are forging ahead to complete negotiations for a continental free trade area between 55 countries by early next year...
Calestous Juma 2 Jan 2018
Businesses within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) could save up to $450 million in clearance documentation once the bloc adopts blockchain technology...
Julius Barigaba 28 Dec 2017
The Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute said the foreign currency generated from the textile sector has been steadily growing...
Abebe Wolde Giogis 13 Dec 2017
The fourth edition of the annual Made-in-Rwanda Expo concluded yesterday with a call from leaders to embrace locally produced products...
Julius Bizimungu 6 Dec 2017
Swiss food giant Nestle announced Sunday that it would close its factory in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
4 Dec 2017
A delegation from South Africa's Black Business Council recently held talks in Johannesburg with business leaders from Singapore and Malaysia on potential investment...
16 Nov 2017
"We are not going to import anything any longer," said Aliko Dangote in a candid discussion with Claridges in London editor in chief Lionel Barber at the Financial Times' 4th annual Africa Summit...
10 Oct 2017
A delegation of South African companies is currently on a trade and investment mission in Tunisia and Algeria, where they are exploring export markets...
3 Oct 2017
In today's on-demand retail landscape, manufacturers are undergoing massive changes to meet customers ever-increasing expectations...
8 Sep 2017
Without going into the specifics too deeply, blockchain is a huge, global distributed ledger or database running on many devices and open to anyone within the blockchain...
Bas de Vos 1 Aug 2017
Digital transformation, as we've come to realise, means something different in every industry. In manufacturing, the term can be broad-reaching...
Dereshin Pillay 27 Jul 2017
The internet of things (IoT) offers many more opportunities than merely improving efficiency and reducing costs...
Morne Bekker 27 Jul 2017
