NCPC-SA News

11th September 2020 Lee-Hendor Ruiters emphasises the importance of preserving and 'stretching resources as economies emerge from the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic Memories of life in the time of Covid-19 will for a long time be etched into the minds of the world and the current and next generation. The pandemic... →

28th August 2020 Petro de Wet discusses how gender diversity in the energy, industrial and agricultural sectors can enhance South Africa's efforts to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions South Africa is the thirty-second-largest economy in the world, but the fourteenth-largest emitter of greenhouse-gas (GHG)... →

25th August 2020 An initiative is under way to accelerate the adoption by South African industrial firms of the international energy management standard ISO 50001, which is designed to help improve the performance of a company’s energy-intensive assets to support cost savings and emission reductions. Although ISO... →

19th June 2020 As cement, aggregate and readymix concrete producer AfriSam marks ten years since the inaugural AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Design + Innovation, the 2019/20 edition is likely to set new trends. The fifth round of the biennial awards is taking place amid an era of worldwide economic... →

29th May 2020 Milisha Pillay argues that there has never been a more opportune time for financial institutions to become more invested in structuring financial packages that are designed to appreciate the nuances of energy efficiency projects   Fortified by steeply rising electricity prices, stricter... →

29th May 2020 The national lockdown because of Covid-19 presents a good opportunity for manufacturing companies to improve their resource and utilities management, says government-funded programme National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) KwaZulu-Natal regional manager Kevin Cilliers. There is... →