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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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Comparing two used cars can mean working through differences in mileage, equipment and price. Before a buyer contacts a dealer, there is already plenty of information to make sense of. For the dealer, keeping listings current and responding to enquiries takes time that could otherwise be spent with customers.  AutoTrader Intelligence is already assisting with parts of that process in South Africa. Its live tools help buyers identify a vehicle’s selling points and find relevant alternatives, …

Lexpro Systems explains how South African litigation practices can see fees, disbursements and client balances inside the case file. IRENE, South Africa — Lexpro Systems has released a new article for attorneys who want a clearer financial view of their litigation matters. It matters because many practices still piece together fees, disbursements, payments and balances from different places, and billing slows down when a simple client question takes an afternoon to answer. When a client asks …

Wings Appliance Repairs has published a fridge and freezer maintenance guide for Midrand households, covering simple habits that cut wear and help avoid food loss. MIDRAND, South Africa — Wings Appliance Repairs has published a new guide to help homeowners look after their fridges and freezers. It matters because most breakdowns build up gradually, and the habits that prevent them are easy to overlook. A fridge that quietly struggles can mean spoiled groceries, higher electricity use and a …

GQEBERHA, SOUTH AFRICA: The Stratlec Group, an Eastern Cape-based electrical and building automation specialist with roots dating back to 1966, has officially added the Shelly range of smart home and light commercial automation products to its nationwide online store at https://stratlec.co.za. Following twelve months of rigorous local field testing, the new online catalogue features Shelly’s popular Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-operated relays, energy meters, dimmers, and sensors. Alongside the core …