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Petco’s efforts saved 76,000m³ of South Africa’s scarce landfill space in 2024. Image supplied.

Circular Economy & Waste Management

How Petco saved 76,000m³ of recyclable packaging in 2024

26 Jun 2025

How falling oil prices could impact South Africa’s HoReCa sector

Food & bev. services

How falling oil prices could impact South Africa’s HoReCa sector

Morne Botes 29 Apr 2025

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Trump tariffs poised to exacerbate woes of ailing petchems sector

4 Apr 2025

Agriculture

The role of sugarcane in securing South Africa's aviation fuel supply

Higgins Mdluli 14 Mar 2025

#MiningIndaba: Anglo pivots to Sasol biodiesel for emissions gains

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

#MiningIndaba: Anglo pivots to Sasol biodiesel for emissions gains

Lindsey Schutters 4 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: 5 trends shaping the travel sector in 2025 and beyond

Trends

#BizTrends2025: 5 trends shaping the travel sector in 2025 and beyond

Kelly Jackson 28 Jan 2025

Sasol Secunda Facility Benfield units Phase 1 and 2. The sole purpose of the Benfield is to remove CO2 from the Feedgas from Synthol. The Benfield circulation Regen column releases the CO2 and steam into the atmosphere. Each Benfield has a Feedgas flow rate of 400 000Nm3/hr, of which 12% is CO2. So about 48,000Nm3/h CO2 into the atmosphere per column per hour, seven days a week, 365 days per year. There are 4 Benfield Regen columns on the Sasol Secunda facility. Source:

Markets & Investment

Sasol battles production declines and changing chemicals landscape

Lindsey Schutters 3 Jan 2025

Source: Rufino Uribe via

Agro-processing

SA’s sugarcane output drops by 10% amid drier conditions

12 Nov 2024

Sasol Secunda CTL is a cornerstone of SA's energy transition. Source: Horst Vogel/Flickr

Coal, Oil & Gas

New report shows depth of Sasol Secunda distress

Lindsey Schutters 28 Oct 2024

The newly formed SANPC will operate as a subsidiary of the CEF

Coal, Oil & Gas

New SA National Petroleum Company gets Compcom nod

Lindsey Schutters 20 Sep 2024

Pick n Pay reintroduces e-waste recycling bins at stores

ESG

Pick n Pay reintroduces e-waste recycling bins at stores

13 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied. Sarah Slabbert, consulting analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Healthcare

#AfricaMonth: Exploring bioplastics as a sustainable and health-conscious solution

Katja Hamilton 28 May 2024

In February 2022, Sibanye-Stillwater successfully concluded the €85m transaction to acquire French mining group Eramet’s Sandouville hydrometallurgical nickel processing facilities near Le Havre, France’s second largest industrial port.

Markets & Investment

Sibanye Q1 update progress on safety, restructuring planned

Lindsey Schutters 10 May 2024

Promising SA-first solution to convert paper sludge, food and textile waste into bioethanol

ESG

Promising SA-first solution to convert paper sludge, food and textile waste into bioethanol

Issued by Sappi 29 Apr 2024

Aviation

Iata collaborates on aviation, unveils net-zero CO2 roadmaps report

17 Apr 2024

HE Haitham Al Ghais, Secretary General of OPEC

Materials & Equipment

We face a transport and construction apocalypse if oil vanishes

Haitham Al Ghais 25 Mar 2024

Sasol is in for a rough fiscal. Source: Sasol

Health & Safety

Sasol profit down 34% midway through fiscal year

Lindsey Schutters 26 Feb 2024

Peter Hodgkinson, Director for Strategic Growth and Major Projects: Property & Buildings, WSP in Africa

Construction & Engineering

The indispensable role of battery giga factories in a net zero future

Peter Hodgkinson 5 Feb 2024

EU has established its own infrastructure fund for African sustainable aviation fuel. Source: Reuters/Yves Herman

Energy

EU scouts African clean jet fuel projects with 'Belt and Road' type fund

Wendell Roelf 29 Aug 2023

Sasol, Topsoe plan sustainable aviation fuel venture

Sustainability

Sasol, Topsoe plan sustainable aviation fuel venture

Nelson Banya 22 Jun 2023

Eni bets on agribusiness in Africa to expand biofuel production

Energy

Eni bets on agribusiness in Africa to expand biofuel production

Francesca Landini 1 Jun 2023

Plastic-eating enzymes could help combat fashion's polyester waste problem

ESG

Plastic-eating enzymes could help combat fashion's polyester waste problem

6 Feb 2023

South Africa faces a hydrogen skills crisis

Skills Development

South Africa faces a hydrogen skills crisis

Yershen Pillay 20 Dec 2022

Niger to see first exports from new $2.5bn oil pipeline in mid-2023

Coal, Oil & Gas

Niger to see first exports from new $2.5bn oil pipeline in mid-2023

Wendell Roelf 20 Oct 2022

South African engineers are trying to solve the global water crisis

Infrastructure & Utilities

South African engineers are trying to solve the global water crisis

Neil Thomas Stacey 11 Jul 2022

How Petco's Project Up is using blockchain technology to boost SA's recycling efforts

Circular Economy & Waste Management

How Petco's Project Up is using blockchain technology to boost SA's recycling efforts

7 Jun 2022

Court orders government to clean up air in coal belt

Environment & Natural Resources

Court orders government to clean up air in coal belt

22 Mar 2022

Shell seismic tests approval complied with rules, Mantashe says

Coal, Oil & Gas

Shell seismic tests approval complied with rules, Mantashe says

Tim Cocks 14 Jan 2022

#BizTrends2022: Circularity, industrial symbiosis and carbon reduction will drive waste management in 2022

Trends

#BizTrends2022: Circularity, industrial symbiosis and carbon reduction will drive waste management in 2022

Brian Kusel 5 Jan 2022

The cost of coal in South Africa: dirty skies, sick kids

Circular Economy & Waste Management

The cost of coal in South Africa: dirty skies, sick kids

Tim Cocks 17 Nov 2021

Source@Eskom Duvha Power station, approximately 15 km east of Emalahleni in Mpumalanga

Healthcare

The dirty impact of coal on health

4 Nov 2021

ESG

How palm oil became the world's most hated, most used fat source

Jonathan E. Robins 30 Jul 2021

Mining

Rio Tinto to shut furnace at South Africa mineral sands project

22 Jul 2021

Source: meriç tuna via

Agribusiness

Food crisis looms as KZN agricultural production and value chains are halted

16 Jul 2021

CRDC SA receives $100k Dow award to scale up Resin8 production

Materials & Equipment

CRDC SA receives $100k Dow award to scale up Resin8 production

15 Apr 2021

Government needs to remove restrictive regulations to allow the agricultural sector to grow

Agriculture

Government needs to remove restrictive regulations to allow the agricultural sector to grow

Ian van Niekerk 17 Mar 2021

How wheat straw, mango peels could be used for renewable food packaging

Research & Development

How wheat straw, mango peels could be used for renewable food packaging

15 Mar 2021

Angola's focus on local content in oil & gas sector

Coal, Oil & Gas

Angola's focus on local content in oil & gas sector

NJ Ayuk 12 Jan 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Coal, Oil & Gas

LNG projects could transform Mozambique - if Western environmentalists don't interfere

NJ Ayuk 21 Sep 2020

Coal, Oil & Gas

Don't dismiss Africa's voice in the energy debate

NJ Ayuk 24 Jun 2020

PAMSA bursary, research programme application extended

Research & Development

PAMSA bursary, research programme application extended

22 May 2020

Sappi Symbio bio-composite solution chosen to help reduce the environmental impact of motor vehicles

Manufacturing & Parts

Sappi Symbio bio-composite solution chosen to help reduce the environmental impact of motor vehicles

Issued by Sappi 15 Apr 2020

Food processing is exempt from the Covid-19 lockdown

Covid-19

Essential services and businesses allowed to operate under lockdown

24 Mar 2020

Equatorial Guinea positioning itself as a regional gas hub

Coal, Oil & Gas

Equatorial Guinea positioning itself as a regional gas hub

31 Jan 2020

South Africa has huge 'green fuels' potential. But it needs to act now

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

South Africa has huge 'green fuels' potential. But it needs to act now

David Richard Walwyn and Rod Crompton 10 Jan 2020

Plastic Atlas highlights scale of global plastic pollution crisis

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Plastic Atlas highlights scale of global plastic pollution crisis

7 Nov 2019

Gwede Mantashe, SA minister of minerals and energy

Coal, Oil & Gas

#AOW2019: Mantashe calls for gas investment

Nicci Botha 6 Nov 2019

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Agriculture

New report: 10-year outlook on global agriculture and fish commodity markets

9 Jul 2019