Geogrid embankment reinforcement at South African oil tank farm
April 6th, 2022
Secugrid PET uniaxial geogrid being laid down at the crude oil storage facility in Saldanha, South Africa. Photograph courtesy of Naue GmbH & Co. KG The new Oil Tanking MOGS Saldanha crude oil storage facility at the deep-water port of Saldanha, situated on the west coast of South Africa, is geographically well located between the […]
TeMa opens South African office
July 15th, 2019
TeMa (Technologies & Material S.R.L) has officially opened its wholly owned African subsidiary, TeMa South Africa. The business will have its sales office and stock warehouse based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and will aim to service the complete sub-Saharan region of the continent. Darryn Meisel has been appointed as the new company’s CEO and is […]
Deploying a geosynthetic mattress ballast layer at an ore-processing site
August 1st, 2018
New applications of geosynthetics are being found that form from overlaps of existing functions, such as protection, separation, filtration and drainage. One new geosynthetic product, the geosynthetic mattress ballast layer (GBL), was first implemented for an ore-processing waste facility protection application in 2015. The GBL is a geotextile containment system that provides a tubular component […]
Geomembrane used at South Africa’s first black-woman-owned manganese mine
July 19th, 2017
A geomembrane provided by Zambia’s Kaytech Engineered Fabrics and installed by South Africa’s Aquatan Lining System was used at the Kalagadi Mine, near Hotazel, Northern Cape province, South Africa, about 675 miles (1,085 km) northeast of Cape Town. Kalagadi is the first manganese mine owned by a South African black woman, Daphne Mashile-Nkosi, known as […]