From the President’s desk 1st Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Economy
In recent discussions with SAFPA member companies, mention was made of a slight uplift in the outlook for 2017. The last quarter of 2016 experienced an increase in business activity. Economic ...
Read more...SAFPA soccer and cycling 1st Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA SAFPA held a number of highly successful sporting events at the end of last year. In addition to the Golf Day, the annual Cycle Race attracted an excellent turnout of 14 enthusiastic teams. The winning ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 1st Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At a recent packed SAFPA technical meeting, the issues and concerns relating to the latest SANS 347 guidelines regarding pressure vessels and the classification of accumulators as pressure vessel accessories ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 4th Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Economy
It is well documented that the state of the South African economy is a source of grave concern to most of the SAFPA membership this year. Indications are that most members have experienced a ...
Read more...SAFPA Golf Day 4th Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA The annual SAFPA Golf Day was held on Wednesday, 7 September at the Benoni Country Club. The competition took the form of a four-ball stableford alliance, with prizes for nearest the pin on the 8th, 2 ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 3rd Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA For this issue of Motion Control, we interviewed SAFPA’s new president, Manny Vieira, to get to know him a bit and find out about his plans for SAFPA. Vast experience
Manny is no stranger to fluid ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 3rd Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At a recent SAFPA technical evening, Hendrik Human, senior application engineer at Eaton, gave a presentation on technology and innovation in hydraulics.
Read more...SAFPA AGM 2016 3rd Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At the 2016 SAFPA AGM, vice president Walter Zimmerman gave a presentation to update members on the success being achieved in the SAFPA training initiative.
Manny Vieira (SMC Pneumatics) is president ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 2nd Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA SAFPA training initiative
On 23 June 2015, SAFPA held an Open Day where members present were requested to vote on the continued roll-out of the fluid power qualification as captured on the Merseta ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 1st Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA I would like to wish everyone a happy new year and a prosperous 2016. In the last four months SAFPA has made significant progress towards the development of a fluid power qualification. JFA² Technical ...
Read more...SAFPA sport 1st Quarter 2016, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA SAFPA was in action at the end of last year with a number of sporting events.
The SAFPA Soccer Tournament went exceptionally well and was enjoyed by all. Congratulations to BMG Hydraulics who won for ...
Read more...SAFPA Dinner Dance 2015 4th Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA The 2015 SAFPA Dinner Dance was a great success. It was held once again at the Bryanston Country Club and there was an excellent turnout. Guests were entertained by the talented one man band, Wez Mayo ...
Read more...From the President's desk 4th Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Yet another year is coming to an end and it has been one of considerable challenges.
SAFPA has this year undertaken some significant educational initiatives which have been well received throughout ...
Read more...SAFPA Golf Day 4th Quarter 2015, SAFPA SAFPA held another highly successful golf day on 2 September. The winning team was Festo (Andre Lombard, Deon Venter, Warren Harvard and Nico Landman).
Second was Rand Building Hydraulics (Johan ...
