Kenya Engineer

The mining industry requires a significant investment in infrastructure to be as efficient and as productive as possible. This is where galvanized steel plays a critical role, reports Simon Norton, Manager, Africa Desk of the International Zinc Association. Essential infrastructure in the mining industry ranges from steel shaft structures (buntons, station steelwork, headgear) to stope structures (roof supports, pipe hangers),...

The Kenya Bureau of Standards through the work of the Sensory Analysis Technical Committee (TC 026) has developed 48 standards on Sensory Analysis that can be applied by industry to carry out objective sensory evaluations. These standards, in the form of methods of test, guidelines and vocabulary, provide guidance for sensory test designs, conditions that need to be controlled,...

SKF’s bearings, bushings, hub units, chains, belts, seals and lubrication systems are renowned for their premium quality, reliability and efficiency. It therefore comes as no surprise that these components are extremely popular with South Africa’s agricultural industry and are widely used by farmers on Combines, Planters, Tractors and various agricultural attachments.   “Our turnkey Agri-solutions, complemented by customer-specific solutions from our...

Nesta Challenges has announced the semi-finalists of Promoting Change, the final strand of the Afri-Plastics Challenge. The Challenge aims to reduce marine plastics in Sub-Saharan African countries by developing and scaling innovative solutions to plastic mismanagement. The third and final strand of the Afri-Plastics Challenge, called Promoting Change and delivered by London-based Nesta Challenges, began accepting applications from 8 December...

Nigerian company Kasi Cloud Ltd. (Kasi), the next-generation interconnection and data center platform for hyperscale and enterprise cloud, is delighted to announce that it held a groundbreaking ceremony in Lekki, Lagos on April 19, 2022 to signal the beginning of construction on the company’s first of several planned data center campuses in Nigeria. Kasi’s hyperscale data center and interconnection solutions flag-off...

The Information Communication Authority (ICTA) and Oracle in Kenya have a signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to introduce a specialised training programme in latest digital technologies including cloud computing for Kenyan graduates in the Presidential Digital Talent Program (an internship program that develops the ICT talent pool in Kenya through a collaboration between public and private sectors). The three-year...

SKF’s innovative Food Line ball bearing units feature a cutting-edge hygienic design that delivers improved reliability, reduced maintenance costs and increased sustainability for the global food and beverage industry.   Known as the Blue Range, these bearings offer a solution to companies who are striving towards perfecting their proactive approach to food safety, which extends to a hygienic-design mentality to bearing...

Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has developed new standards for major construction materials, a move primed to ensure that the country builds formidable homes and commercial units. The standards enforced through product certification and market surveillance ensures that quality is upheld during manufacturing stated Lt Col (Rtd.) Bernard N. Njiraini, Managing Director, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS).  He stressed that...

Following a country wide market surveillance activity on galvanized roofing sheets, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has observed with great concern the presence of substandard Roofing sheets in the market that do not fully comply with the requirements of. KS EAS 11: 2019. Hot-dip Galvanized plain and corrugated steel sheets – specification. KS  EAS  410:  2021.  Hot-dip  Aluminium-Zinc  coated  plain  and...

SKF West Africa identified a number of lubrication issues while conducting  a paid lubrication audit for a long-standing mining customer in the Republic of Guinea.  “Our objective with the audit process was to gain a better understanding of our customer’s existing lubrication and maintenance strategy, their lubricant purchasing and Automatic Lubrication System (ALS) management process as well as their...