Mpumalanga

Industrial Development Corporation Regional Manager Mashweu Matsiela explains how the IDC’s mandate helps to improve lives.

Over the past year Columbus Stainless has spent in excess of R380-million in new capital projects and equipment upgrades.

Highveld Industrial Park has a number of key assets that form the basis of its unique rental proposition that allows it to provide a holistic rental solution to its clients, in a prime location.

Highveld Industrial Park started with only four tenants in 2016 and has gone from strength to strength. In August 2019, it reached the 50-tenant mark.

CEO Johan Burger highlights the diverse range of services enjoyed by industrial and office tenants of Mpumalanga’s newest industrial park.

Steel and associated manufacturing remains one of the province’s strong suits, but a number of initiatives are being pursued to promote beneficiation and other forms of manufacture through a clustering approach and through tax incentives in Special Economic Zones.

South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon will continue their bidding round efforts at the flagship Africa Oil & Power (AOP) conference and exhibition.

Huge potential exists in Africa to create biomass-to-energy projects, as a more sustainable alternative to coal power plants.

Entries are open across 12 innovative categories which reward individuals, small and large organisations for powerful and compelling work in promoting tourism across Africa.

About 4 000 hectares of new trees is added each year across South Africa, with most of that in Mpumalanga and neighbouring Limpopo.