Kumamoto, Japan — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan. The powerful earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, also left…
Domitexka’s mill in Kaolack has the markets, the know-how and the partnerships to compete globally. What it still needs — like nearly every manufacturer on the continent — is patient capital. The thread comes off the spool white, clean and taut. Inside the Domitexka workshop in Kaolack, the machines are running: raw Senegalese cotton goes…
Following its recent declaration that PlayStation will transition to a digital-only ecosystem by January 2028, Sony has already initiated the physical dismantling of its optical disc infrastructure. According to a report by ORF Salzburg, the regional branch of Austria’s national broadcaster, Sony’s Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) management has quietly invested €30 million ($34 million)…
BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen BMW Group South Africa marked 20 years of its IT Hub in Menlyn, Pretoria, on Wednesday, revealing that a team based in the city built the AI systems now inspecting vehicles on BMW’s assembly lines around the world. The hub, which started with 11 employees in 2006,…
Image: NewSpace Systems Somerset West-based spacecraft component maker NewSpace Systems has opened a 5 200sq m manufacturing facility that it claims is the largest commercial space hardware manufacturing plant in Africa. The purpose-built facility includes a 1 260sq m cleanroom and a 120sq m engineering lab, both designed from the ground up for space manufacturing. Capabilities include…
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is piloting drone-based inspections at its Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre (EPMC) in Wolverhampton, cutting the time needed for certain machinery and site checks from around four hours to roughly 10 minutes. The trial is aimed at improving inspection efficiency and reducing the need for employees to access high or confined areas….
Nyamagabe District and the current investor in the Gitare Mill wheat processing factory are in talks with a potential new investor who may acquire or buy shares in the business to help secure financing needed to resume operations, The New Times has learnt. ALSO READ: Rwf10bn needed to revamp stalled wheat factory The factory was…
A worker walks past molten steel at a steel factory in Huai’an, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on July 22, 2025. – | Afp | Getty Images China’s factory activity edged higher in November but remained stuck in contraction for the eighth consecutive month, while services weakened as the boost from earlier holidays faded, according…
Altron earlier this month announced that it has deployed an “AI factory” in one of Teraco’s new Johannesburg data centres. Powered by Nvidia AI infrastructure and software, the factory has already gone live with half a dozen customers. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, Altron Group chief technology officer Bongani Andy Mabaso explains the…
Altron group CTO Dr Bongani Mabaso. South African technology group Altron is the latest company to announce the deployment of an artificial intelligence (AI) factory, as tech companies jostle to establish and run industrial-scale AI operations. Altron yesterday announced the deployment of what it touted as “South Africa’s first operational AI factory”, powered by Nvidia…
