- Trending Decorative Ceilings Ceilings no longer have to be boring. A good way to update the home is to have a feature ceiling. The fifth wall can be modernised with these top ceiling design techniques. Dark Ceilings To draw the eye upwards, have a dark ceiling. But don’t dark ceilings make the room look dark? For small low...
- GROHE ESSENCE: A NEW ERA OF BATHROOM DESIGN Following the global trend to individualisation, the bathroom is becoming a highly considered space in the home. Architects and designers need the means to express their customers’ individual style. GROHE’s broadest faucet range, Essence, is an incredibly rich toolbox for the creative mind. It allows for a degree of individuality unthinkable before.
- Symrise continues dynamic growth track Following a very dynamic first half of the year, Symrise AG successfully continued its growth course in the third quarter. All segments and regions contributed to this positive trend. The Group achieved an organic sales increase of 8.8 percent in the first nine months of the year. Taking portfolio and exchange rate effects into account, sales in reporting currency were up 4.6 percent to € 2,382.6 million (9M 2017: € 2,278.4 million). Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to € 475.7 million (9M 2017: € 485.2 million). The EBITDA margin remained at a good level of 20.0 %. Based on the positive nine-month development, Symrise raises its sales objective, which had already been increased at mid-year. Symrise aims at outperforming market growth and at achieving organic sales growth of more than 8 % in Fiscal Year 2018.
- Value and Momentum Smart Beta - different sides of the coin Over the rolling 12-months to June 2019 the Momentum Trending Equity Unit Trust delivered a return of 14.1% against 1.5% return of the average peer in the SA General Equity sector. The fund was ranked 2nd out of 157 peers in the Morningstar survey over this period. Over the 24 months to June 2019 this...
- Is the equity party over? By Maarten Ackerman, Chief Economist and Advisory Partner, Citadel. The cracks may be starting to show in the ten-year equity bull market, but does this mean that the cycle is now over?
- Discovery of bacterium that degrades PET plastic A group of researchers from Keio University and the Kyoto Institute of Technology discovered a bacterium that degrades and assimilates PET. The research was conducted in a collaborative project with Teijin Limited and Adeka Corporation.
- Have your say in the Propak survey and stand a chance to win an online voucher Montgomery Group, responsible for the Propak exhibitions across sub-Saharan Africa has put together an industry-wide survey to examine how recent events have impacted your business and what this could mean for the wider packaging market. Targeting all professionals working across the supply chains for packaging, plastics, printing and food-processing, this survey will ascertain current trends...
- in-cosmetics further establishes itself in North America A hugely successful second edition of in-cosmetics North America drew to a close earlier this month, with the region’s cosmetic industry full of praise for an event that provided a raft of exciting opportunities to learn about new ingredients and the hottest trends from around the world.
- Timber facade rises from sustainability ethos Driving down Dock Road in the direction of the Watershed at the V&A Waterfront near the One and Only hotel to the right, one cannot help notice the impressive and completely unique engineered timber pleated façade warmly cladding the Waterfront’s newest building which is currently under construction on the left. Incorporating cross-laminated timber (CLT), and various energy efficient building design elements,...
- i3 Summit 2018: A Greek perspective on SA According to Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, sensible market-related interventions coupled with smart redistribution of rights over factors of production could see South Africa triumph over poverty and inequality, creating a prosperous future for all its citizens. Sensible market-related interventions coupled with ‘smart’ redistribution of rights over factors of production could see South...

Industrial Buyer July/August 2020

In the July/August edition of Industrial Buyer we place a special focus on sustainability and environmental management in the manufacturing industry. COVID-19 is causing major disruption and is changing the way work. The pandemic is forcing us to fast track sustainability and even start reimagining African cities. In this edition we explore how to maintain business continuity within this extremely uncertain time and find out about an innovative sanitisation product which will help you comply with COVID-19 regulations in the workplace.

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