Some two billion years ago, a series of violent volcanic eruptions, which took place over a period of millions of years, gave rise to a rich body of minerals, which became known as the Palabora Igneous Complex. The unique......Some two billion years ago, a series of violent volcanic eruptions, which took place over a period of millions of years, gave rise to a rich body of minerals, which became known as the Palabora Igneous Complex. The unique ore body outcropping at a small saddleback hill, later to be called Loolekop, contains a unique variety of minerals - copper, phosphates, magnetite, uranium, zirconium, nickel, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Two other volcanic pipes nearby contain vermiculite and phosphate. Smelting of copper iron occurred in the district prior to the discovery. We know from the artifacts found in the area, that copper of remarkable purity was produced in the Phalaborwa area as early as the 8th century. Development of modern mining activity started at the beginning of the century when several geologists in the noted the occurrence of the phosphate bearing mineral, apatite, in the vicinity of Loolekop. Palabora Mining Company Limited extracts and beneficiates copper and vermiculite from its mines in the Limpopo Province. The company was incorporated in South Africa in August 1956. It is South Africa’s only producer of refined copper. The mining of the company’s copper ore-body commenced in 1956. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the company’s open-pit copper mine and associated processing plants produced over 2, 7 million tones of copper. During the early 1990s, the company embarked on a series of feasibility studies on underground mine. In 1996, it announced that it would proceed with the development of an underground block caving mine with a production rate of 30 000 tonnes per day. Products The primary product of the company is copper, together with by-products, which include magnetite, nickel sulphate, anode slimes, sulphuric acid and vermiculite. The Industrial Minerals division produces and markets vermiculite. Operations The copper operations comprises an underground mine, a concentrator, a copper smelter with anode casting facilities and an associated acid plant, an electrolytic refinery tank house, arod casting plant and by-product recovery plants. The vermiculite operation comprises an open-pit mining operation and recovery plant. Overseas subsidiaries in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Singapore performs the marketing of vermiculite. Mission statement It is the primary aim of the Company, a member of the world-wide Rio Tinto Group, to achieve excellence in all aspects of its activities and to develop the Company’s resources and assets in a social and environmentally responsible way for the maximum benefit of its shareholders, employees, customers and the community in which it operates. It is the Company’s firm belief that efficient and profitable operations go hand-in-hand with high-quality products and comprehensive and effective safety, health and environmental protection programmes.

To create superior value and benefits on a sustainable basis across commodity cycles for all stakeholders, by developing the business into a low cost steel and vanadium slag producer.

Using a revolutionary concept to harness the hitherto un-exploitable benefits of CVT conventions, the Naudic patents combine in two unique systems to change the automotive world as we know it. The first system, the Naudic......Using a revolutionary concept to harness the hitherto un-exploitable benefits of CVT conventions, the Naudic patents combine in two unique systems to change the automotive world as we know it. The first system, the Naudic iCVT, employs a unique synchronisation concept to allow small incremental ratio shifts with full mechanical positive drive at all times. Providing multiple ratios, the second system, the Naudic rotorCVT, is a two-stage parallel machine, incorporating "ratcheting technology" to eliminate point contact stresses and rippled output associated with conventional ratcheting CVTs. Both patents have been proven in working prototypes. Providing multiple ratios, the second system, the Naudic rotorCVT, is a two-stage parallel machine, incorporating "ratcheting technology" to eliminate point contact stresses and rippled output associated with conventional ratcheting CVTs. Both patents have been proven in working prototypes. The result is two technologies, which both offer higher overall efficiencies than even conventional, manual gearboxes, but with vastly improved performance. The Naudic inventions offer a practical and economical alternative to conventional transmission technology and heralds a radical departure from conventional thinking. The Naudic CVT technologies are destined to become the preferred option for vehicle design and manufacture, now and in the future.

Hugo Molenaar, the companys founder, came to South Africa as a young technical engineer from The Netherlands in 1935. Soon afterwards, he secured a job with leading Western Cape nurserymen, Pickstone Farms, then the main ......Hugo Molenaar, the companys founder, came to South Africa as a young technical engineer from The Netherlands in 1935. Soon afterwards, he secured a job with leading Western Cape nurserymen, Pickstone Farms, then the main supplier of fruit trees to, amongst others, Rhodes Fruit Farms one of the first groups to can fruit in South Africa. After serving as an aircraft engineer in the South African Air Force during the Second World War, Molenaar teamed up with fellow serviceman Jock McKenzie to start a company, then known as Molenaar & McKenzie. Three years later, the pair went their separate ways, and his brother Guus, a mechanical engineer, joined Hugo. The company H.G. Molenaar was registered in January 1949. At first, the company provided mechanical and engineering assistance to farmers and general industries in and around Paarl. One of H.G. Molenaars major early contracts was to help equip the developing fish processing industry on the West Coast of South Africa. This lead to work in South America in the 1960s, as well as other contracts, following the moving shoals of the Atlantic into what was then South West Africa. Through earlier contact with Pickstone Farms, Hugo already had a network of contacts among farmers in the Western Cape. As the deciduous fruit canning industry developed in the late 1940s through to the 1960s with the founding companies such as Ashton Canning in Ashton and the SA Preserving Company (SAPCO) in Tulbagh there came a growing need for fruit handling, peeling, coring and canning machinery. H.G. Molenaar was to fulfill that need. In 1962, Cor Molenaar, Hugos second son, who had graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Cape Town, set off for the US, where he was employed by various canning companies, including the Green Giant company and Del Monte. Through US company, Atlas Pacific, which was already doing business in South Africa, he became familiar with pear peelers, so when he returned to South Africa in 1963, he both joined HG Molenaar as sales and service manager and started the agency for Atlas Pacific pear peeling machines, thus beginning a long association with various leading US companies. After joining the company in January 1966, Cors elder brother, Guus, a graduate electrical engineer, visited the US in 1967 to familiarize himself with Peco, Angelus and Votator, and to secure the agencies for these machines. In 1965, Filper, leader in the field of peach pitting machinery, was represented by an agency that had not fared very well in South Africa. The Agency was then given to HG Molenaar, who determinedly recovered the core of the business and it started to flourish. Filper, sensing the keenness and vigor of the company at the foot of Africa, acquired a half-share in HG Molenaars business in 1968. As a result of this connection H.G. Molenaar started building a wider range of machines for a broader market. These decades were characterized by rapid growth, with an added burst being provided by increased tonnages and the first step towards rationalization of the deciduous fruit industry, when more modern factories were required. In the 1970s, politics began to impinge on business as economic sanctions were imposed on US companies doing business with South Africa. As a result, Filper in the US was forced to abandon its small, but vibrant partner. However, as so often happened in such cases at the time, the local company benefited in the long run. Filper was taken over by Atlas Pacific in 1978, and although the Filper brand name still exists on peach processing machines, the company now trades under the Atlas Pacific hierarchy. When the companys founder retired from active work in 1972, although he remained as chairman until his death in 1994 , one era came to an end and a second era began with his son Cor taking over the reins as managing director. In 1994, one of the chairmans other sons, Nick, a chartered accountant joined the company. Today the company has established an export market for its products and supplies customers around the world including the U.S.A, Thailand, Australia, Europe, Russia and the United Kingdom. In 1998 the third generation of Molenaars started to enter the company, first Nicks son Martin, followed a year later by Cors son Stefan, both Mechanical Engineers. Both Martin and Stefan worked for several years at Atlas Pacific Co. in the U.S.A. prior to joining H.G. Molenaar and are being groomed to follow the tradition of service and technical excellence that was started in 1946 by Hugo Molenaar. In 1998 Molenaar bought Vintec, now a sister-company, their main function being the supply and servicing of the wine industry in South Africa. In order to fully supply the wine industry Vintec signed a partnership with a Portuguese cork manufacturer thus giving birth to Corcap (Pty) Ltd, now also part of the Molenaar group of Companies. Molenaar recently became the sole agent in South Africa for Sinclair International, a company specializing in the labelling of fruit. Molenaar has been the representative for Sinclair in the Western Cape for many years and during 2001 also took over representation in the North of South Africa. In recent years the growth in the fruit labeling, due to increase in exports, has grown to such an extent that Molenaar established a joint venture with Sinclair International and Simoco (Pty) Ltd was formed to produce fruit labels locally.

The CAL2k bomb calorimeter systems are the most advanced fully automatic "dry" static jacket isothermal bomb calorimeter systems available today. A quality product which produces accurate results. The calorimeters can ope......The CAL2k bomb calorimeter systems are the most advanced fully automatic "dry" static jacket isothermal bomb calorimeter systems available today. A quality product which produces accurate results. The calorimeters can operate as either a stand alone unit or via a PC. The cooler reduces the temperature of a fired vessel by having its hot junction of the peltier elements cooled down by a continous trickle of mains water supply. The filling station fills the vessel with oxygen to 3000Kpa (3Mpa) at a controlled pace, so as not to disturb the sample inside the crucible. The vessel is the heart of the calorimeter systems. It has an isothermal design with a microprocessor in its base. The vessel also has a number of temperature sensors within its cylindrical walls, ensuring absolute accuracy. The CAL2k bomb calorimeters with their easy maintenance and compact size are a must for any calorimetry application.

GrahamTek Systems is a South African Proprietary Limited, privately owned company in alliance with GrahamTek Singapore Pte Ltd, forming a joint international group that devotes its efforts to the development and provision......GrahamTek Systems is a South African Proprietary Limited, privately owned company in alliance with GrahamTek Singapore Pte Ltd, forming a joint international group that devotes its efforts to the development and provision of clean and healthy mineral quality water to the world. GrahamTek™ has been actively involved in the market since 1998 in manufacturing, marketing and distribution of innovative environmentally friendly, chemical free and energy efficient GrahamTek™ Filtration and Desalination Water treatment Systems that are capable of providing world markets with affordable, high quality water, and outperforms conventional membrane separation systems. GrahamTek™ has successfully developed its global market by formation of strategic alliances which have assisted the company to establish infrastructures to respond to the global demand for the needs of water in a professional and effective way. The GrahamTek innovations offer the only systems available in the world today that inhibit fouling & scaling during operation, eliminating the need for chemicals and achieving higher performances than conventional, higher energy reliant water systems. The company produced the worlds first 16-inch membrane element, providing significant capital cost reductions, flexible & modular plant design configurations, operational efficiencies and large reductions to the plant footprint. The company designs and configures application specific waste water recycling and sea water desalination solutions. Thorough pilot plant trials form an integral part of the final process design and the optimisation of operational efficiencies. Providing unique, high-quality, low cost solutions.

ICEsonic dry ice blasting and cleaning systems (often referred to as CO2 blasting) are the most economical dry ice blasting units on the market, both in initial cost and in continued use. Because of design and manufacturi......ICEsonic dry ice blasting and cleaning systems (often referred to as CO2 blasting) are the most economical dry ice blasting units on the market, both in initial cost and in continued use. Because of design and manufacturing efficiencies, ICEsonic has been able to keep production and overhead costs low. ICEsonic does not spend enormous amounts of money on unnecessary advertising and does not have layer upon layer of marketing and distribution. Therefore, you save up to 50% or more over the price of competitors of CO2 blaster models.

AllyCAD is developed and distributed by Knowledge Base Pty Ltd and enjoys loyal support from its expanding user base worldwide, now spanning the civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, architectural and manufacturing e......AllyCAD is developed and distributed by Knowledge Base Pty Ltd and enjoys loyal support from its expanding user base worldwide, now spanning the civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, architectural and manufacturing engineering disciplines and other design niches. AllyCAD is intuitive to use and is rated as one of the most user-friendly packages on the market. AllyCAD places all the draughting functionality that you need at your fingertips, allowing you to design the way you want to! The Toolkits further enable you to complete many time consuming tasks in just a few seconds. Industrial Strength, User-friendly & Customisable AllyCAD is an industrial strength 2D CAD that has established itself as the best of its breed in South Africa, Europe and the United States. As a core focus, we strive to give you essential functionality combined with operational simplicity to increase your productivity. You can also graphically customize all menus and toolbars to your liking. Our Specialised Toolkits We have developed a number of specialised toolkits that allow you to complete many time consuming tasks in a matter of seconds. The General, Architectural, Survey, Mechanical, Structural and Civil Toolkits are all included in AllyCAD. Data Compatibility When it comes to compatibility, AllyCAD fully supports the reading and writing of AutoCADs DWG format, DXF, Caddie CEX, Arcview SHP and ASCII files. This gives you the flexibility to move between drawings without having to worry about incompatibilities and data exchange problems. In addition to this, AllyCAD handles JPG, TIFF and BMP files and also supports TFW, LOG and HGR geo-referenced bitmaps. Work, Cut and Paste Between Multiple Drawings With AllyCAD you can open multiple drawings at once and use the Windows clipboard to cut and paste between the drawings. You can also add drawings to other documents by simply copying the portion of the drawing you would like and pasting it into the document. The AllyCAD Promise When you become a member of the international community of AllyCAD users you are buying into much more than just a powerful CAD system. You will be signing on to the broad range of support services that all AllyCAD users enjoy. These services include: Visits to your offices, User group meetings, Regular product upgrades, Email and hotline support, Tech Tip tutorials, Specialised training to meet your needs, AllyCAD Newsletters and updates. The Knowledge Base development team is continually improving AllyCAD in order to meet our users requirements and keep up with the latest industry developments. This close relationship we have with our users is highly prized by our existing clients and is the reason why AllyCAD is the preferred choice of professionals, consultants, local authorities, technikons and universities. Our Support Contract ensures that you receive the latest updates as soon as they are released and allows you priority access to our Customer Support Centre.

Multenet Technologies was first registered as an subsidiary of Control Instruments Group Ltd in 1999. The first device connectivity product, the E88, emerged to provide banks with an effective method of connecting ATM Mac......Multenet Technologies was first registered as an subsidiary of Control Instruments Group Ltd in 1999. The first device connectivity product, the E88, emerged to provide banks with an effective method of connecting ATM Machines to their Ethernet networks. Excellence in device networking soon established the company as a reliable technology partner to some major industry players. Since then, a range of products has been developed to service the growing networking and communication market verticals in Telemetry, Process Control/Industrial Automation, Building Automation and Access Control. Multenet has worked in association with companies like Schneider Automation, and Hirschmann Electronics to produce products specifically designed for the Industrial Automation and Industrial Ethernet markets. These references, together with an enviable reputation as a company that provides excellent service and support, have secured a group of loyal customers who now rely on Multenet to keep their products at the forefront of available networking and communication technology. To ensure prompt product and service delivery worldwide, Multenet resellers can be found in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australasia. Looking towards the future and guided by customer requirements, Multenet foresees growth by continued focus on network control technologies including wireless, switching, power over ethernet and the emerging convergence technologies.

OMNIFLEX designs and manufactures electronic products and systems for the automation and control industry worldwide, specialising in industrial networking, remote I/O systems, process automation systems, signal conditioni......OMNIFLEX designs and manufactures electronic products and systems for the automation and control industry worldwide, specialising in industrial networking, remote I/O systems, process automation systems, signal conditioning, and alarm and event management. The company was founded in 1965 in South Africa and was originally named CONLOG, developing expertise in systems integration and product development for the process control and instrumentation market. The company’s products are now sold on 5 continents and include such well known brands as OMNI16 alarm annunciators, MAXIFLEX process automation and remote I/O systems, and OMNITERM signal conditioning and RTU systems.