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AfriMold joins forces with SA Automotive Week
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wo of Africa’s leading manufacturing trade shows;
South African Automotive Week (SAAW)
and AfriMold have announced a co-hosting agreement
for 2014. Both shows will be hosted at Gallagher Convention
Centre between 13-17 October at the Gallagher Convention
Centre in Midrand.
The combined event can now offer a broad engineering industry
focus, with Auto remaining the core theme, and the focus
expanding from the technology behind the car all the way through
to the finished product ecosystem.”
South African Automotive Week director, Andrew Binning says
South African Automotive Week would comprise several
activities including the trade show, technical or
trade related workshops, a 2-day conference,
June 3 - 4, 2
site tours, an online match making
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programme and networking activities,Johannesburg, South
including the NAACAM AGM on October
16.
South African Automotive Week Working Group
chairman and National Association of Automotive
Component and Allied Manufacturers of South
Africa (NAACAM) director Robert Houdet
says the co-hosting arrangement was a
logical step that was in the interest of the
industry.
“We are pleased to be co-hosting South
African Automotive Week with Afrimold,
as the arrangement focuses even
greater automotive interest, particularly
international interest, on South Africa over
that time and enhances the attractiveness
of South Africa as a trading partner.’’
“The events complement each other and
their co-habitation will boost value to
industry participants and create an even
more powerful showcase of South Africa’s
manufacturing capability,’’ Houdet says.
The AfriMold trade fair is a hub of innovation
where local and international market leaders exhibit
solutions for product development through - design,
material selection, simulation, visualisation, engineering, CAE,
CAD and CAM, rapid prototyping and tooling, patternmaking
and prototyping, precision machining, mould-making, tooling,
tools, machine tools, quality assurance and automation, as well
as processing and finishing.
Both events aim to grow SA’s manufacturing
capabilities and global competitiveness,
traditionally attracting local and international participants from
across the design, materials, prototyping, tooling, conversion,
assembly, testing, packaging, distribution/logistics and automotive
sectors.
The increased B2B, networking and cross-sector new business
opportunities presented by co-hosting the events is expected to
benefit exhibitors and attendees alike.
South African Automotive Week is Africa’s automotive
intellectual gathering, focused on stimulating trade and
partnership opportunities in manufacturing and related sectors.
Visit www.afrimold.co.za/conference.php and http://www.saaw.
co.za for more information.
SAAW is the continent’s showcase for manufacturers of vehicle
components and Electric Vehicles. “The synergies between
these events are clear,” says Ron MacLarty, MD of AfriMold.
Exhibitors who have not yet secured space at South African
Automotive Week can book a limited number of remaining stands by
contacting Graziella Ventresca-Norton at Tel: + 27 (0) 861 101 475 or
[email protected]. Exhibitors who have not yet secured their space
at the AfriMold exhibition can book their stands by contacting either:
Ann Evans at Tel: +27 82 336 6791 or [email protected] OR
Terri Bernstein at Tel: +27 83 635 3539 or [email protected]
“By presenting them simultaneously, we are enabling the full
spectrum of automotive, machining, engineering, tooling,
manufacturing and related sectors the opportunity to
discover all the latest trends, strategies and solutions under
one roof.
Find & Fix
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he Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) has officially
launched its Find & Fix mobile app. This ground-breaking
innovation - the first of its kind in the country, continent
and entire Southern Hemisphere – seeks to create a partnership
between Joburg citizens and the Agency by providing the latest
technology with which to report any road related defect at the
click of a button.
“The launch of this new smartphone app forms part of the JRA’s
turnaround strategy and service delivery drive”, says Skhumbuzo
Macozoma, JRA managing director, “The organisation is
committed to becoming more accessible to citizens and road
users and to developing itself into a centre of engineering
excellence with enhanced service delivery and satisfied
customers”.
The Find & Fix app will enable the public to report potholes,
faulty traffic signals, storm water drains, manhole covers, and
other infrastructure issues related to JRA.
The JRA encourages residents to report all road and storm
water related issues, including potholes to 0860 562 874/
[email protected] / twitter @MyJra./ and the new JRA Find&Fix app.
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