Labour seminar

February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Business seminar presented by Ivan Israelstam.
Date: 12 March 2010
Presenter: lvan lsraelstam, CEO of Labour Law Management Consulting.
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To have your event listed on ManufacturingHub.co.za or Ferronews.com please contact Marc on 082-561-1585 or e-mail sales@rival.co.za.
Cost is R175 excl. VAT once off

Costly protection

February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Experts at Walkers Attorneys say that the new Consumer Protection Act of 2009 is likely to have a significant impact on manufacturers of consumer products in South Africa.
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Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are one step closer to providing Tuberculosis (TB) sufferers with a once-a-week medicinal regime rather than their current daily doses. A preclinical efficacy study demonstrated that TB drugs given once a week over a four-week period were just as effective as daily doses of the drug [...]

ManufacturingHub.co.za has added a business travel support tool for professionals in the South African Food, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Cosmetic Manufacturing industries.
This will assist professionals attending business events, conferences to source:
◦Business accommodation
◦Car hire
◦Holiday Destinations across South Africa
For further information or to try it out, please click here.

Entrepreneur event

February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Gauteng based entrepreneur support initiative Rival Pioneers is hosting a workshop to assist start-up entrepreneurs navigate the maze of bootstrapping their small business.
While some people may be fortunate enough to have the savvy to raise funding from banks, venture capitalists and angel investors most start-up entrepreneurs are going to have to do it the hard-way: [...]

ManufacturingHub.co.za, South Africa’s leading online resource for the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetic manufacturing industry has undergone a facelift of its own, creating a valuable resourceful tool for market players in the industry.
The new platform enables users to access subscriber-only research and reports, as well as a business service listing and new jobs module that [...]

For reasons of safety and reliability, the importance of being able to trace products throughout the supply chain has strongly increased in recent years. The new ISO 17367:2009 standard will help manufacturers and distributors to track products and to manage their traceability thanks to standardized RF tags.
Traceability is defined as the tracking and tracing of [...]

Local SAP® BUSINESS All-in-One Partner, SCT Services, has announced a new licensing and delivery option for SAP® BUSINESS All-in-One (SAP BAiO) solutions. The new hosted and subscription-based delivery model is designed to help midsize companies obtain a world-class business application with a lower up-front cost by eliminating the capital outlay traditionally required for acquiring software [...]

Nampak Flexible, Southern Africa’s leading flexible packaging supplier, received two award nominations for their Imana Chicken Noodle soup and Imana Cream of vegetable soup packs entered into the 2010 FTA (Flexographic Technical Association) International Awards.
Judging for the awards took place between the 24th and 26th of January 2010 in New York, where all entries, judged [...]

As we face a growing epidemic around heart disease, diabetes and stroke and other non-communicable diseases in South Africa researchers and scientists have converged in Cape Town to find new health research solutions.
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