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Preventative maintenance keeps KZN fibre manufacturer on the boil

A LOCAL manufacturer of nonwoven materials with operations in Hammarsdale, Fibertex South Africa, has key customers in the automotive, bedding, filtration, furniture and geotextiles...

Accelerator programmes now open for the furniture and textile sectors

THE eThekwini Municipality-sponsored Business Accelerator connects high potential, black-owned small businesses with large customers in their sector, explains the head of the accelerators at...

Last chance to fast-track your small business

IS your company an SME in the clothing and textile, automotive or chemical industry? Then you’re almost out of time to enter the 2021...

Oxygen shortage hits industrial production

IN recent weeks, there have been news reports of the high demand for medical oxygen putting significant pressure on oxygen suppliers and affecting industrial...

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Industrial Ecology: Deep sustainability must be modelled after nature’s systems

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