Use grants or lose them, says official

Transport Minister Jeff Radebe and Eastern Cape Transport MEC Thobile Mhlahlo have launched the Blue Skyway Aviation Initiative at the Bhisho airport

THE government looks as if it’s trying to nudge a decision out of aluminium producer Alcan on whether it intends to build a smelter in the Coega development zone in the Eastern Cape.

WILL THEY COME? A Coega interchange for traffic from expected tenants COEGA is beginning to shake off its woes with a number of new tenants committing billions to the controversial port development.

THE Belgian Sander textiles project at the Coega industrial development zone appears to have run aground after Coega management said it had commenced negotiations with potential new tenants for the factory it had built for Sander.

Global construction material producer Lafarge has firmed its foothold in the booming Garden Route construction market.

ApexHi has grown its EC portfolio to 14 buildings with a gross lettable area of 94,129m².

South Africa's State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said yesterday that it would take a 15% stake in the planned 660 000-t aluminium smelter at Coega, in the Eastern Cape.

CANADIAN aluminium and packaging group Alcan will make its decision on whether to go ahead with building a $2,5bn smelter at the Coega industrial development zone in Eastern Cape in October, said Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) CEO Geoffrey Qhena yesterday.

South African cement sales for May exceeded one million tons for the first time since November 2004, the Cement and Concrete Institute has reported.