Engineering Business News Features

The specialist engineering services company Allweld Marine & Industrial of Cape Town has, following a year of sustained growth, invested R1.5m in new machines for their expanding machine shop business.

DCD-Dorbyl Marine’s history spans 106 years, establishing it as the oldest of the companies constituting the DCD-Dorbyl Group, a multi-faceted com-pany which serves the local and national mining, rail, marine and metallurgical industries.

Project managers should not engage in wishful thinking about returning to the way things used to be – in the post-crash world, mega projects are likely to be few and far between. 

RACEC, the Cape-based rail and electrical engineering specialist, crashed into the red in the year to end September - the first time the group has reported a loss since undergoing a management buyout in 1988.