RS South Africa to Showcase Smart Industrial Solutions at Kite 2025: As the industrial sector gears up for the KwaZulu-Natal Industrial Technology Exhibition (KITE) 2025, taking place from 22 to 24 July at the Durban Exhibition Centre, RS South Africa will showcase smart technologies designed to enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability across the region’s manufacturing …
Fourth industrial revolution in South Africa: inequality stands in the way of true progress: Low-income South Africans in rural areas feel left out of the technological advancements linked to the fourth industrial revolution. Lucian Coman/Shutterstock In his 2019 State of the Nation address, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he was creating a commission …
Labour has bet big on green industrial policy. But there may be there cheaper ways to net zero: Labour’s first budget in 15 years included a highly anticipated change to the so-called fiscal rules which constrain how much the government can borrow or spend. By relaxing the rules, chancellor Rachel Reeves has opened the door …
Turning camels into cows: megafarms are being set up to produce camel milk on industrial scales: Yasser El Dershaby / Shutterstock The camel may be the next cow. An animal that once grazed and browsed over huge distances is increasingly being enclosed in vast Middle Eastern dairy farms, where thousands of camels are milked by …
Strikes: when companies collaborate with unions, industrial action can benefit business: Nigel J. Harris/Shutterstock More than 4 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the UK in 2023. This is more than at any point since 1989 and around nine times more than the yearly average of 450,000 days in the 2010s. …
Industrial Magnets and Magnetic Separators: A Comprehensive Guide: Introduction In the vast realm of the industrial sector, magnets play an instrumental role, often operating behind the scenes but making a significant impact. Their importance is further magnified when one considers the crucial process of magnetic separation, a technique employed across various industries to segregate magnetic …
Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution – my research reveals all the biodiversity we’ve lost: The extinction of the wolf in Britain was widely celebrated as an achievement towards the creation of a more civilised world. Biodiversity Heritage Library Travel back with me a few hundred years to before the industrial …
Grand infrastructure projects aren’t a magic bullet for industrial development – insights from Ghana and Kenya: Kenya Lamu Port Project The African Union’s flagship Agenda 2063 initiative prioritises large-scale infrastructure development and promises to “link the continent by rail, road, sea and air”. This is being undertaken in parallel with efforts to improve economic integration. …
The UK needs a new industrial strategy or it will lose the global green subsidy race: Making industry greener — and stronger petrmalinak/Shutterstock UK businesses have criticised the government for the lack of a clear industrial policy. Industry body Make UK has warned the country “risks being squeezed” by US and EU green subsidy packages. …
How Gda?sk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront: Andrzej Grzesiak/Unsplash The prosperity of port cities, throughout history, has been closely tied to the ports’ ability to adapt to economic and technological change. As ships got bigger, ports had to keep up. This has often seen the port proper grow apart from the city whose name it …
Why the promised fourth industrial revolution hasn’t happened yet: shutterstock It’s nearly a decade since the term “fourth industrial revolution” was coined, yet many people won’t have heard of it, or know what it refers to. Also known as industry 4.0, it’s a way of describing how connecting together different advanced technologies could transform how …
Strikes: how rising household debt could slow industrial action this year: William Potter/Shutterstock After decades of declining real wages and deteriorating working conditions, strike activity has spiked over the last year, particularly in the United Kingdom. From nurses and teachers to railway and postal workers, employees are demanding wage increases and improved working conditions – …
Strikes: why teachers in England and Wales are set to take industrial action: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock The National Education Union (NEU), the largest education union in Europe, has announced that its teacher members in England and Wales have overwhelmingly voted for strike action. The NEU announcement follows the results of a ballot called by another …
UK strikes: what ongoing industrial action means for the future of Britain’s railways: All aboard. alice-photo/Shutterstock Rail unions and operators have been meeting with the government to attempt to break an industrial action deadlock that, according to Network Rail, has lost the industry more than £400m in revenue since last summer. Workers for UK rail …
Global economy 2023: what happens next with industrial action: Worker unrest has been surging around the world. voy ager This is the fifth instalment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023. It follows recent articles on inflation, energy, food and the cost of living. Canada: assertive unions getting results Jim …
Strikes: why soaring CEO pay could help explain UK’s recent industrial action: Lower earners are counting the cost of a growing wage gap. Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock The pay gap in UK business is eye-watering. Bosses of the largest UK companies earn around 100 times more than the lowest-paid employees in their organisations, according to some …
Dead crustaceans washing up on England’s north-east coast may be victims of the green industrial revolution: Thousands of dead and dying crustaceans were found along Teesside's coastlines last year. FlorianKunde/Shutterstock Thousands of dead and dying crabs and lobsters washed up along a 50km stretch of England’s north-east coast last autumn. Observers reported seeing the animals …
Quiet quitting is a new name for an old method of industrial action: With the rise of quiet quitting, could the days (and nights) of staying late at the office be over? Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a …