As the world races to net-zero emissions by 2050, the global automotive industry is at a crossroads, facing the unprecedented challenge of rethinking strategies, cultures and products as it navigates the complex landscape of decarbonisation. Industry stalwarts such as...
Atlantis Foundries’ CEO outlines factors behind innovative PPA
“At the end of the day, we decided that we’re good at manufacturing castings, not creating electricity – that’s not our function. We’d rather buy it than manage it.” Pieter du Plessis, CEO, Atlantis Foundries South Africa’s automotive industry faces serious...
Daimler’s Atlantis Foundries signs Western Cape’s largest embedded solar power purchase agreement with Energy Partners
Atlantis Foundries (Pty) Ltd (AF), one of Africa’s largest foundry operations, has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Energy Partners (EP), an integrated energy solutions company. According to the terms of the agreement, EP will engineer, finance,...
Servitisation can unlock capital and build food production resilience in ‘interesting times’
Almost 60 years ago, on 6 June 1966, a young Robert F. Kennedy told an audience at the University of Cape Town, “There is a Chinese curse which says, ‘May he live in interesting times.’ Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and...
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