Rebecca Campbell

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Rebecca Campbell

Rebecca Campbell is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

Innovation fund for South African tertiary institutions

12th April 2024 South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have jointly launched a new fund to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in the country’s tertiary education sector. The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), as it is called, is... →

Scientists develop new way to convert carbon dioxide into green methanol

12th April 2024 Scientists from the UK, Germany and Australia have successfully converted carbon dioxide (CO2) into methanol, a green fuel, using a new technique that they have developed. The research involved chemists from the University of Birmingham, the University of Ulm, the University of Queensland and was... →

Emerging mohair farmers boosted by new Eastern Cape support programme

11th April 2024 A new initiative, the Mohair Industry Support Programme (MISP), was launched in the Eastern Cape province on Thursday. MISP is a result of the signing of a three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) and the Mohair Empowerment Trust (MET).... →

Alexforbes collaborating with Alternative Prosperity to provide sustainability consulting

11th April 2024 South African financial services group Alexforbes (more formally, Alexander Forbes) has entered a collaboration with local green advisory and investment group Alternative Prosperity to enter the sustainability consulting sector. This expands Alexforbes’ ability to deliver advice to corporates and... →

US group selects its technology partners for its major sustainable aviation fuel project

10th April 2024 US clean fuels company DG Fuels has selected a technology, jointly developed by UK multinational advanced metals chemistry and sustainable technologies group Johnson Matthey and UK multinational energy group bp, for its first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant. The technology uses the Fischer... →

Concor stresses green building practices in its new Rosebank project

10th April 2024 South African construction group Concor has highlighted progress at its Green Star V2-rated Oxford Parks Block 2A Phase 1 project, in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank. Work started in February and the project is scheduled to take 17 months, with completion targeted for September next year.... →

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Work under way on Oxford Parks Block 2A Phase 1

IATA launches report into the reduction of single use plastics in the airline sector

9th April 2024 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has released its latest report on how the industry can reduce its environmental impact. This report is entitled ‘Reassessing Single Use Plastics Products in the Airline Sector’ and seeks... →

Rolls-Royce Power Systems enters partnership to achieve carbon capture for its mtu engines

9th April 2024 Rolls-Royce, the UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group, has announced that it is partnering with Switzerland-based carbon dioxide and dry ice company ASCO Carbon Dioxide (ASCO) and UK-based clean energy transition enterprise Landmark Power Holdings (LMPH) to develop scalable... →

UK, US nuclear groups jointly win UK funding to further develop space micro-reactors

8th April 2024 UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce and US-based major nuclear manufacturing and engineering group BWX Technologies (BWXT) have been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to jointly advance technologies for the new and novel applications of nuclear fission... →

South Africa’s research funding agency celebrates a quarter century of success

5th April 2024 The National Research Foundation (NRF) has highlighted that it celebrated its creation 25 years ago, this week. The NRF is the statutory body that supports and promotes research through the provision of research facilities, funding and human resource development. “The NRF stands proud as one of... →

Important progress in development of aviation electrofuels

5th April 2024 The first two months of this year saw significant developments regarding the category of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) known as electrofuels, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported, in its latest “Fly Net Zero Media Update” report. IATA is the global representative... →

IATA reports continued strong air passenger growth in February

4th April 2024 The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the global representative body for the airline industry, has reported continued strong growth global air passenger demand in February, in year-on-year (y-o-y) terms. Total demand rose 21.5%, while international demand jumped 26.3% and... →

IATA reports that strong air cargo growth continued in February

4th April 2024 Global air cargo traffic, in year-on-year terms, increased by double digits for the third month in a row, in February, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. IATA is the global representative body of the airline industry. “February’s demand growth of 11.9% far outpaced... →

Photo by IATA
IATA director-general Willie Walsh

Chinese groups partner to deliver major solar energy power plant in South Africa

3rd April 2024 Chinese photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems company Trina Solar announced on Wednesday that it has entered a partnership with China Energy International Group and China Gezhouba Group to develop the Mooi Plaats PV power plant project. Mooi Plaats is in the Northern Cape province. The... →

Flight tests of Rolls-Royce’s latest engine have started

3rd April 2024 UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce announced on Wednesday that it had started flight tests of its latest aero engine, the Pearl 10X. This has been developed specifically to power French group Dassault’s latest business jet, and is the latest member of... →

Clean energy company implements renewable energy system for major agri business

2nd April 2024 South African clean energy infrastructure development and operation company Blue Energy Africa has highlighted its implementation of hybrid solar and battery energy systems for a major Western Cape agricultural company. The client was Robertson-based Smuts Brothers Agri (Smuts), which is a... →

UK to fund new Anglo-South Africa scientific initiative

29th March 2024 South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have announced a joint programme to institute an international research network that will embrace South Africa, other African countries, and the UK. This network will be funded by UK... →

NWU partners with IAEA to boost nutrition in Africa

28th March 2024 South Africa’s North-West University (NWU) has become the lead host institution for Anglophone African countries in a pan-African initiative launched by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), intended to build capacity across the continent for scientific research into micronutrients.... →

South African food inflation continues to decelerate

28th March 2024 South African food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) inflation (hereafter to be referred to just as food inflation, for short) decelerated for the third month in succession, in February, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Production (BFAP) think tank has highlighted, in its latest ‘Food... →

New innovation fund for South African tertiary institutions launched with UN support

27th March 2024 South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have jointly launched a new fund to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in the country’s tertiary education sector. The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), as it is called, is... →

International research team has developed new way to convert CO2 into green methanol

27th March 2024 Scientists from the UK, Germany and Australia have successfully converted carbon dioxide (CO2) into methanol, a green fuel, using a new technique that they have developed. The research involved chemists from the University of Birmingham, the University of Ulm, the University of Queensland and was... →

Top management upheaval at Boeing as group battles quality challenges

26th March 2024 Embattled US aerospace giant Boeing has announced major management changes at the highest level. The group has been hit by major quality control issues in particularly (but not exclusively) its Commercial Airplane (airliner) business, most obviously (but again, not exclusively) with its 737 MAX... →

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New Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Stephanie Pope

African development finance institution secures its biggest ever debt facility

26th March 2024 African infrastructure funding specialist, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), announced on Tuesday that it had successfully closed its largest ever debt facility. This is a $1.16-billion syndicated loan, which had attracted new lenders from Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The AFC’s target... →

Stats SA has overestimated agriculture’s GDP decline last year, says think tank

25th March 2024 Independent think tank, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP), believes that the year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in the country’s agricultural sector gross domestic product (GDP) last year, as reported by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), is seriously in error. BFAP analysed the... →

Strategic air cargo alignment between Kenyan, Abu Dhabian carriers has lifted off

25th March 2024 Kenyan air cargo carrier Astral Aviation (Astral) and Abu Dhabi-based United Arab Emirates operator Etihad Cargo, the logistics and cargo business of Etihad Airways, have announced the functional start of their collaboration, with the completion of the first flight between Nairobi and Abu Dhabi.... →

LBMA seeking to integrate small and artisanal miners into the legitimate gold supply chain

22nd March 2024 Independent precious metals authority LBMA has launched a major initiative to support the integration of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) into the legitimate global gold supply chain, through its 66 accredited refiners. The initiative takes the form of a ‘toolkit’ which addresses issues... →

Cape Town City pleased with developments at Cape Town International Airport

20th March 2024 City of Cape Town Economic Growth MMC Alderman James Vos has congratulated the State-owned Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) for its investment programme for Cape Town International Airport (CTIA). He was addressing the 2024 Wesgro Western Cape Air Cargo Conference, in Cape Town. (Wesgro is... →

South Africa needs to upgrade its air cargo and related infrastructures

20th March 2024 South Africa is beginning to fall behind other African countries, when it comes to being a centre for air cargo, Swissport South Africa CEO Khangi Khoza has warned. She was delivering a keynote address at the Wesgro Western Cape Air Cargo Conference 2024, in Cape Town. Already, Johannesburg had... →

Countries can carve niches for themselves in the global air cargo business, says IATA

19th March 2024 It was possible for a country to turn itself into a global hub for important air cargo flows, even if that country had no connection with, or involvement in, the commodity concerned. So pointed out International Air Transport Association (IATA) Regional Director for Operations, Safety and... →

Local, international aviation ground services groups form joint venture in South Africa

19th March 2024 South African black woman-majority-owned aircraft ground-handling company NAS Colossal Africa Aviation Services (Colossal) and Belgium-based international ground-handling and ground services group Aviapartner have announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to create Colossal... →

IATA reports major progress in sustainable aviation fuels, globally

18th March 2024 In its latest 'Fly Net Zero Media Update' report, the global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has highlighted developments around the world, regarding sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), during the first two months of this year.... →

IATA reports important progress in the development of aviation electrofuels

18th March 2024 The first two months of this year saw significant developments regarding the category of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) known as electrofuels, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported, in its latest “Fly Net Zero Media Update” report. IATA is the global representative... →

Zero-carbon aviation company demonstrates complete system for the first time

15th March 2024 US zero carbon-emissions aviation company Universal Hydrogen has announced that it has used one of its proprietary modular liquid hydrogen storage and transport ‘capsules’ to successfully power its megawatt-class fuel cell powertrain. The test was run on the company’s ground-based ‘iron bird’... →

Wesgro launches new domestic tourism campaign

14th March 2024 Western Cape trade, investment and tourism promotion agency Wesgro has launched a new campaign to attract tourists to the province. Unlike other recent campaigns, this one, called ‘With Love from the Locals’, is targeted at attracting domestic tourists. “We place immense value on our domestic... →

IATA launches its Digital Leadership Charter for air cargo

14th March 2024 The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global representative body for the airline industry, on Thursday launched its IATA Digital Leadership Charter. The launch took place at the 2024 IATA World Cargo Symposium, in Hong Kong. The inaugural signatories of the charter are Cathay... →

International partnership seeks to develop platform to calculate air cargo carbon emissions

13th March 2024 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and global non-profit freight sector climate action organisation the Smart Freight Centre (SFC) have announced that they are partnering to supply air cargo shipment carbon dioxide... →

Global astronomy conference set for Cape Town has record number of paper submissions

13th March 2024 The International Astronomical Union’s (IAU’s) General Assembly 2024, the first ever to be held in Africa, has received more than 3 000 abstracts, its organising committee has announced. This number was described by the committee as a “milestone”, being the greatest number of abstracts ever... →

UK to fund new joint Anglo-South African scientific cooperation initiative

12th March 2024 South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have announced a joint programme to institute an international research network that will embrace South Africa, other African countries, and the UK. This network will be funded by UK... →

IATA global cargo conference focuses on the future of the air freight sector

12th March 2024 The key themes at the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA’s) 2024 World Cargo Symposium (being held in Hong Kong) were digitalisation, safety, and sustainability. (IATA was the global representative body for the airline industry, with some 320 member airlines which accounted for 83%... →

Restrictions in the aviation sector are hampering economic growth in SADC

12th March 2024 The economic potential of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is being constrained by restrictions on the region’s aviation sector. This was highlighted at the recent Southern African Industrialisation Forum, held in Sandton, Johannesburg. “We can talk about a free trade area and... →

Airlink to resume flights to Richards Bay

11th March 2024 Airlink, the South African domestic and regional international carrier, announced on Monday afternoon that it would resume its scheduled flights to Richards Bay, on Tuesday morning. This follows the reinstatement of approval for the Richards Bay airport’s fire and rescue service, by the South... →

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