JOHANNESBURG: Coffee Journal, a South African specialty coffee publisher and brewing platform, has released the Q3 2026 edition of its SA Coffee Price Index, which puts the median retail bag of specialty coffee in South Africa at R190. The index tracks 132 priced coffees from 39 roasters, normalised to a price per 100 grams so that bags of different sizes can be compared directly. The median works out to about R75.60 per 100 grams, or roughly R13.61 per cup on an 18-gram espresso dose. The full …
The Events Guys Brings Five Event Supply Tiers Under a Single Crew
JOHANNESBURG: The Events Guys, a turnkey event company trading since 2011, has consolidated marquees, audio visual, flooring, furniture and fencing into one contracted crew that specifies, builds, runs and strikes each event. The company operates from Johannesburg and Cape Town and delivers builds nationwide, with a single point of contact handling the brief from the first site visit to the final truck leaving the venue. The model replaces the usual arrangement in which a client assembles a …
Designer Pool Covers Passes 4,500 Installations as Automatic Cover Demand Grows
JOHANNESBURG: Designer Pool Covers, a South African supplier and installer of automatic and manual pool covers, has completed more than 4,500 installations since it began trading in 2012, with projects delivered in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. The company said the total reflects a shift in how homeowners plan for pools: covers are increasingly specified while a pool is being built rather than added after a first summer of high water, chemical and heating bills. The range starts at R15,000 …
CNC Plasma Tables Ships a Flat-Packed 1530 Water Table Kit From Epping
EPPING, CAPE TOWN: Many fabrication shops already have a gantry and torch planned and still need a flat, full-sheet bed to put under them. CNC Plasma Tables, a table builder in Epping, Cape Town, supplies its 1530 water table kit flat-packed, so a workshop can bolt, square and weld the bed into place itself over a weekend. What comes in the kit The kit is laid out for a 1 500 x 3 000 mm class cutting area, which is a standard full sheet. It ships with the main steel frame members, tray sections …
HostEx Cape Sets Out Three Programme Streams for Hospitality Buyers
CAPE TOWN: HostEx Cape, the hospitality trade expo in Cape Town for hotels, guest houses, restaurants and caterers, has built its show programme around three programme streams during the expo. Chef demos The chef demo theatre runs live cooking sessions where buyers can watch commercial kitchen kit under service-style conditions. It is aimed at hotels looking at breakfast and banqueting flow, guest houses reworking smaller menus and restaurants that need to judge output against space and staff …
When Stretch Fabric Moves in the Press: Pinetown Supplier on Tacky Paper
PINETOWN: Sublimation on stretch fabric can go wrong in the press. Numbers double up on a cycling top, or a knitted panel springs back when the press opens. Sublimation Consumables, a sublimation paper supplier in Pinetown, has set out when its tacky paper for stretch fabric is the right fix and when it is not. What the tack actually does The paper carries a light tack that holds knitted polyester in place while heat and pressure do the transfer. It is not glue. The point is to keep registration …
MoreCut Saws in Alrode Welds Bandsaw Blades to the Length Your Saw Needs
ALBERTON: MoreCut Saws, a bandsaw and hacksaw blade supplier in Alrode, Alberton, cuts blade coil and welds it into finished loops through its weld-to-length service. The shop checks the blade against the saw before it is dispatched, because wheel size, guides, blade width and the material on the bench all decide whether the loop runs true or breaks early. Checked before it leaves Alrode Each job starts with the machine details: saw length, wheel diameter, guide setup and the material being cut. …
Renal Supplies Water Systems Plans Dialysis RO Plants From Tap to Drain
DURBAN: On a dialysis water plant, trouble often starts outside the reverse-osmosis skid: unstable feed pressure, a drain with no proper fall, or a plant room too cramped to service. Renal Supplies Water Systems, based in Pinetown near Durban, designs, installs and services reverse-osmosis plants for dialysis units and plans each one along the full water path, from the incoming municipal connection to the final drain point. What sits inside the scope pre-filtration and carbon stages, with …
Pay@ Puts Automatic Reconciliation at the Centre of Year-End Collections
Between late November and the end of January, South African billers enter one of their most demanding stretches of the year. Before leaving on holiday, customers clear their accounts and pay for festive spending, and the new year then brings another wave of school fees, insurance premiums, municipal bills and subscription renewals. Each of those payments must land against the correct customer account. This November, Pay@, the Stellenbosch payments company behind bill payments since 2007, is …
SalePrice Workshop Outlet Publishes A, B and C Grades for Ex-Demo Machines
PRETORIA: Two ex-demo CNC routers with the same bed size can arrive in very different condition. SalePrice Workshop Outlet in Pretoria West now grades its ex-demo stock A, B or C and has set out what each ex-demo grade means, so buyers can weigh the saving against the wear before they arrange collection. A grade is the closest to a clean display unit: faint handling marks, limited demonstration use and the listed parts present, though packaging may be opened and consumables may not be a full …