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Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has pulled back from his statement that the release of the revised Integrated Resource Plan, which he has dubbed IRP 2023, is imminent, revealing during his Budget Vote on Tuesday that the draft will be presented to Cabinet only in the second quarter of this financial year. Government’s financial year runs from the start of April to the end of March, implying that the presentation to Cabinet will be made between July and September .

The board of Russian diamond mining company Alrosa will consider the appointment of Pavel Marinychev  for the position of CEO, following the planned resignation of Sergey Ivanov. Marinychev oversees one of Alrosa’s main production units, Almazy Anabara.

The South African Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) is not anticipating a domestic diesel supply crunch this winter as a result of a spike in generator-related demand, despite ongoing warnings of possible higher levels of loadshedding and the prospect of Eskom, businesses and even some households turning to the fuel in an effort to mitigate the impact of regular power cuts. Sapia executive director Avhapfani Tshifularo tells Engineering News that domestic diesel demand has remained relatively static over the past few years and that the average monthly consumption is about 1.1-billion litr...

Additive manufacturing (AM), popularly called 3D printing, has an important role to play in greatly reducing the global manufacturing industry’s carbon emissions, Cape Town-based Evanswerks Labs co-founder and CEO Justin Evans tells Engineering News Online. “3D printing is not zero-carbon but it produces a lot less carbon emissions than conventional manufacturing,” he points out. Today, 3D printing can be done with metals, composites, polymers, ceramics and even biological materials. Regarding metals, a wide range can now be used – aluminium, cobalt chrome, copper, low ...

JSE-listed property investment company Calgro M3 has announced record headline earnings for the financial year ended February 28, with revenue having increased to R1.5-billion from R1.3-billion in the previous year, driven by increased unit registrations and additional investment in bulk and link infrastructure funded by government throughout the year. Calgro specialises in the development of integrated residential housing developments and the development and management of memorial parks. The company reported that the residential property development business was the largest contributor to rev...