As 2020’s brutal lockdowns came into force, many entrepreneurs feared the worst. Consumers stuck at home, businesses closed, site activity ceased, investment crashed, and every penny being covered away for a brighter time. Negative sentiment was...
Construction & Engineering
TRENCON CONSTRUCTION: Building for the Long Term
South Africa’s construction industry, like its economy, is unpredictable and challenging. To make it here, you have to truly understand the market and appreciate the local conditions in the country which presents significant opportunity alongside...
ABLAND: Inspirational, Connected, the Rubik is a new Flagship Address for Cape Town
In December 2021, leading property development business – Abland – was busy with the bold and ambitious Rubik development in Cape Town’s CBD. The city bowl has been neglected for decades. Just a few multi storey buildings stand in the centre, and...
DOGON GROUP PROPERTIES: The Fynbos Takes Root in Cape Town
In December 21, Alex Horne, Managing Director at Dogon Group Properties, told Enterprise Africa that the company was thrilled to be involved in Africa’s first ever biophilic building. As the lead agent, the company would sell modern, beautiful...
RHEINMETALL DENEL MUNITION: Sights Set Firmly on the Future
As an integrated technology group, Rheinmetall AG stands for a strong, internationally successful company that operates in various markets world-wide with an innovative range of products and services. Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM)’s own...
MASTERPARTS: Masterparts Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing
Traditionally the African leader of the automotive industry, South Africa now produces more than half a million automobiles of all types each year. Amid the despondency around load shedding and other weakening economic indicators, the National...
THE SBS GROUP: Quarter Century of South African Success for SBS
“When I stand in front of a SBS Tanks customer, I am able to say: ‘Everything that will go up on this site is South African by origin’,” says Delayne Gray, Group CEO at The SBS Group. Perhaps one of South Africa’s proudest advocates, Gray heads one...
HARVEY ROOFING PRODUCTS: HRP EcoTile® to Totally Disrupt Roofing Market
Exciting things are happening at the Harvey Roofing Products (HRP) plant in Gauteng. In a world-first, this expert manufacturing business has installed all-new equipment capable of producing an innovative, strong, and in-demand new product that...
R&D CONTRACTING: Building Valuable Skills for SA Industrial Maintenance Sector
For David Williams and Remo Torrente, Directors at R&D Contracting, the past 16 years have been a journey of learning. Establishing a contracting business in South Africa’s developing and changing compliance environments was not easy, but these...
PORT OF EAST LONDON: Port of East London to Expand
A significant manoeuvre is underway at the Port of East London as Transnet National Ports Authority targets considerable growth from South Africa’s premier river port. Underutilised and threatened by a lack of diversity in its client base, this...
ELPHICK PROOME ARCHITECTURE: Architectural Visionary’s Ambition Knows No Bounds
Committed to architectural excellence since its establishment in 1989, EPA has been in the business of creating exciting buildings, environments and spaces with functionality at their heart ever since. The result of a longstanding partnership...
REINFORCING & MESH SOLUTIONS: Strong RMS Builds Solid Growth Strategy
Economies in sub-Saharan Africa continue to show reasonable recoveries following the Covid-19 pandemic. The region itself is expected to grow 3.6% in 2022, down from 4% in 2021 according to the World Bank. But South Africa’s struggles with economic...
AFRIMAT: Diversification Cements Afrimat as Mining and Materials Leader
With more than half a century of experience driving it, Afrimat has built up a vast geographical footprint already covering swathes of urban and rural southern Africa, and growing quickly. An integrated product offering is today distributed across...
CADCON STEEL CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING: Strong CADCON Builds on Quality Reputation
For 35 years, CADCON Steel Construction and Engineering has been building, creating, innovating and engineering unique and imaginative steelwork solutions for quality-conscious clients in South Africa. As a brand, CADCON has developed significantly...
MRC GROUP: Building Envelope Contractor Fixed for Global Expansion
In building and construction, the often-misunderstood concept of the building envelope has been overlooked in South Africa for too long. Typically, a construction firm will work with an architect, quantity surveyor, and engineer to create spaces...
SIEMENS: Transformation Occurs When Real and Digital Worlds Collide
Focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare, Siemens is a technology company which exists to create technology with purpose, which in turn adds real value for customers spanning the fields of IT, industry, finance, and energy....
ATTACQ: Architect of Development and Progress
Attacq is firmly positioned as one of South Africa’s preeminent Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), supported by one of the most comprehensive and diverse real estate portfolios in the country worth over R28 billion in total asset value. “Attacq...
METSO OUTOTEC: Planet Positive Plan Set out by Metso Outotec
In 2021, Metso Outotec – the global supplier of sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services to the aggregates, minerals processing, and metals refining industries – featured amongst the top 100 in the Corporate Knights 2021 Global...