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South African automotive lead-acid battery manufacturer AUTO-X solar 0 & M manager Jaco Weideman discusses the importance of digitalisation in ensuring sustainable farming operations, while AUTO-X graphic designer Johann Coetser elaborates on battery brand Willards’ 70-year history. The manufacturer exhibited from May 14 to 17 at Nampo 2024, themed ‘Agriculture in a Digital Age’, which was held near Bothaville, in the Free State.

Biometric time and attendance and access control systems provider Uniclox senior sales executive Christo Wandrag talks to Engineering News about the role the company is playing in the digitalisation of the agriculture industry at Nampo 2024, which was held from May 14 to 17 near Bothaville, in the Free State.

Gear motors, frequency inverters and drive automation specialist SEW-EURODRIVE electronics business development manager Willem Strydom highlights the company’s role in the agriculture industry’s digitalisation journey and the importance of attending Nampo 2024, which was held from May 14 to 17 near Bothaville, in the Free State.

Platinum group metals (PGM) and chrome concentrate producer Tharisa has warned that its earnings per share (EPS) and headline earnings per share (HEPS) are likely to be up to 29% lower year-on-year for the financial year ended March 31, as a result of a 40% decrease in PGM price and increased cost pressures. EPS are expected to be between 22.4% to 28.2% lower year-on-year at between $0.125 and $0.135, while HEPS are expected to be between 23.3% and 29% lower year-on-year at between $0.125 and $0...

It’s no longer good enough to just produce electric vehicles (EVs). You have to produce green EVs. To do that, you need green steel and to get green steel, you need the green molecules that green hydrogen provides.

JSE-listed chrome producer Merafe Resources has advised that the quarterly European Ferrochrome Benchmark (EUBM) price will be discontinued with effect from June. The company will, therefore, no longer publish the EUBM price on the JSE news service.

Africa’s premier gold producer, Ghana, hosts major mining firms such as Perseus Mining and Newmont, the largest gold producers globally. Perseus,

The election storm, which has just past, carried with it developments that were at times entertaining, at times revealing and at times downright disconcerting. Now that it has passed, attention will turn to the governance arrangements that will follow in its wake.

The gold price is extremely sensitive to global developments and to newsflow, and the strong upward momentum in the price of the precious metal during 2024 has been underpinned by geopolitical uncertainty. This month, gold surged to an all-time dollar high, and with persistent inflation, economic pressures and central bank interest, supportive factors appear to remain in place.

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