African Review of Business and Technology

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Articles in July 2006 issue of African Review of Business and Technology

• Festo AG.(to biuld a factory in Lagos)(Brief article)
• Booming market for mining equipment.(Woodworking)
• Do you know who's on your network? We're now used to the idea of security as a key business protector, even of ensuring the perimeter of our networked business is secure. But what happens, asks Karen Young, when ill-intentioned people are inside your netw
  by Young, Karen
• Executives' calendar.(Calendar)
• The Imara African Opportunities.(Briefly)
• Forecast movements against the dollar.(Financial Forecast)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
• Tough trucks delivered.(Western Star Inc. contracts with Van Wetten)(Brief article)
• Good fences make good neighbours: woodworking businesses need to diversify their products to grow in Africa these days. Supply and erection of boundary fencing materials is one idea, matching up as it does traditional workshop skills with value-adding opp
• Ghana's IT revolution.(IT News)
• Forward contracts, hedging and regulation.(Commodity Report)
• Toyota Uganda limited.(Briefly)
• Two Sudanese brothers.(Aya Investments (U) Ltd. investing in hotels)(Brief article)
• East African Community relaunch.(Commercial Review)(Brief article)
• Opencast activities: time for a reappraisal? Increasing minerals demand is focusing attention on equipment supply capacity and mine operating costs. Opencast technology offers some distinct advantages, writes Kyran Casteel.(Mining)
  by Casteel, Kyran
• A pocket guide to pumps and pumping: Dr Terry Mabbett goes back to basics on the principles of pumping. It all began on the banks of the Nile where screw pumps are still used for irrigation.(Water Supply)
  by Mabbett, Terry
• NITEL signs contract with Motorola.(IT News)
• Softs slower.(Commodity Report)
• Axis communications.(Briefly)
• Nigeria's Federal Executive Council.(approved capitalisation base for airline operators )(Brief article)
• Saudi invests in Uganda.(Prince of Saudi Arabia Al-Waleed bin Talal investing in Uganda)(Brief article)
• Growing demand pushes up price of platinum: metals in general and platinum in particular are benefiting from the booming market in hard commodities. But some of the other PGMs are not doing so well, says Priscilla Ross.(Mining)
  by Ross, Priscilla
• A feast of opportunities at petroleum forum: remarkable developments in Africa's oil and gas industry gave the African Petroleum Forum 2006, which took place in London last April, extra significance. Stephen Williams reports.(Oil and Gas)
  by Williams, Stephen
• Government must encourage entrepreneurs: from the processing of dried fruit to building aero engines, Ghanaian men and women are coming up with great ideas. Emmanuel Yartey argues that government needs to do much more to encourage their efforts.(Ghana)
  by Yartey, Emmanuel
• New website launched.(Oil News)
• Editor's note.
  by Phelan, Jonquil
• Concrete waterproofing builds on successes in South and East Africa.(Company Focus)
• Golden Tulip blooms in Lagos.(Golden Tulip United Kingdom)(Brief article)
• Investors needed.(Africa needs foreign investments)(Brief article)
• Safety first for expert excavation: today's diesel-driven diggers are highly productive machines. All that power needs to be constrained within a safe operating system if the job is to make a profit.(Construction)
• Sugar waste turns the turbines: sugar mills in Africa are profiting from a new revenue stream. Steam turbine plant from Peter Brotherhood is being used to generate surplus power which is then sold to the national grids of various countries.(Power Supply)
• Ekow Afedzie: a man with a mission; Ahead of full automation by December this year, African Review interviewed the GM of the Ghana Stock Exchange. Kofi Asante spoke about current issues with Mr Ekow Afedzie.(Ghana)(Interview)
  by Asante, Kofi
• Algeria.(Oil News)
• Saving rainwater can solve the shortfall: Ronald Watts explores some possible ways of collecting and storing rainwater in Africa's cities, towns and villages as a response to warnings of serious future water shortages.(Water Supply)
  by Watts, Ronald
• Hard prospects.(gold's economic influence on South Africa 's currency)(Brief article)
• Arab world backs Senegal.(Commercial Review)(Brief article)
• All on show at Interbuild Africa: Interbuild Africa 2006, to be held in South Africa's business capital at the end of July, will be bringing a series of linked construction trade exhibitions to one handy city site. Visitors from elsewhere in Africa are es
• Brazilian blueprint for Nigerian biofuels sector: Dr Marianne Osterkorn, international director, Renewable energy & energy efficiency partnership (REEP) explains how oil-rich Nigeria could export even more, using sugarcane and cassava as the raw mater
  by Osterkorn, Marianne
• Dollar back on top again.(Financial Forecast)
• Major discoveries for Nigeria and Sao Tome e Principe.(Oil News)
• Sinking a well: drill or dig? Constructing a new shallow well is often the only way of watering rural Africa. But whether a modern tubewell or traditional excavation is budgeted for depends on a number of factors. Most importantly, what is the well to be
• Time for a breather.(commodity markets)
• AGOA forum focuses on trade expansion.(Commercial Review)(Brief article)
• Orlando event is all about asphalt: the world's biggest sealed-road surfacing trade and technical event took place in Florida in March. Specialised equipment, products and training all received exposure, and visitors benefited from the networking opportun
• India poses big challenge to China: India's emergence as a major supplier of engineering products and services is a recent phenomenon. By not catering solely to the mass market it has set itself apart from the other Asian tiger; Africa is the obvious plac
• Exchange rates.(Financial Forecast)
• Cameroon.(Oil News)
• B & W clinches contract.(B & W Instrumentation And Electrical contracts with Debswana Diamond Co.)(Brief article)
• Nigeria.(Afren contracts with Amni)(Brief article)
• Computer lab opens in Cape school.(by Safmarine, Western Cape Education Department )(Brief article)
• Rebuilding Sudan's roads.(Construction News)
• Family-friendly SUV from Porsche.(Vehicles)
• Direct link for US/ West Africa.(Business Travel)
• South Africa's petrochemical giant SASOL.(Briefly)
• Power from Tony's Diesel.(Tony's Diesel Electrical of South Africa )
• Mauritania.(Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s Chinguetti's production data and management)(Brief article)
• A Kenyan company.(Standard Xpress Ltd. launching bus and parcel services between Kampala and Nairobi)(Brief article)
• Local crusher manufacturer opts for cat.(Construction News)
• Light commercial vehicles for tomorrow: the globalisation of China's automotive industry is coming. Africa's market for light commercial vehicles could be one of the first targets.(Vehicles)
• Emirates expands network.(Business Travel)
• Namibia's power utility.(Briefly)
• UPS systems compensate for power lag: Africa's investment in power is falling further behind the rest of the world's, especially China and India. We look at some of the terms used to describe the results and an innovative solution to the resulting problem
• Congo (Brazzaville).(Maurel and Prom's M'Boundi field's production)(Brief article)
• A US$35MN bus project.(Pioneer Easy Bus )(Brief article)
• Volvo CE's Q1 sales up.(Woodworking)
• Look at the bottom line and cut your TCO: before rushing off to buy a printer it is important to consider the TCO, or total cost of ownership, this will include printer cartridges, and the time and cost of replacing other parts. Now one company is offerin
• KQ introduces new flights.(Business Travel)
• National Trucks Manufacturers (NTM) of Nigeria.(Briefly)
• Bo Town connects with the world.(AccessPoint Africa's Conrad Coyanda-Parkes interviewed)(Interview)
• Angola.(ENI Corp., TOTAL S.A. and Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. winners of licensing round)(Brief article)