Chemicals

Clustering: Critical to Industry Resilience during C-19 Crisis

by Meghan King | Sep 3, 2020 | Automotive, Chemicals, Clothing and Textiles, Furniture

In responding to the changing business environment and the multifaceted challenges facing the manufacturing sector during the COVID-19 crisis, clustering has proven to be a critical success and recovery mechanism to support industry. A manufacturing cluster refers to...

Peer Learning & Crisis Risk Mitigation

by Meghan King | Aug 25, 2020 | Chemicals

Problem: COVID-19 created a near unmanageable crisis for manufacturers. The crisis fostered a unique challenge of simultaneous information overload and lack of clarity, meaning that managing business risk was extremely difficult. Solution: A risk management programme,...

Tool: Production Readiness Toolkit and TRIO Supply Chain Risk Tool

by Meghan King | Jul 23, 2020 | Chemicals

Problem (1): COVID-19 Regulations were largely uncertain, absent and changed regularly under the COVID-19 lockdown. Firms faced high levels of operational incompatibility with health and other government guidelines. Solution (1): Identification and standardisation of...

The investment climate in South Africa

by Meghan King | Apr 11, 2017 | Chemicals

A review of corporate financial reporting highlighted the perception that very high cash holdings by South African firms has been a persistent problem in the economy in recent years. In 2014, and for the first time in many years, local companies invested more outside...

Room to grow exports to sub-Saharan African countries

by Meghan King | Oct 18, 2016 | Chemicals

The Durban Chemicals Cluster has undertaken research to identify which countries are consuming more or less KZN chemicals in relation to their GDP than others, thereby identifying countries that may be underserviced and offer untapped export potential for DCC members....

Introduction to the draft Carbon Tax Bill

by Meghan King | Jun 14, 2016 | Chemicals

The draft carbon tax bill released for comment on 02 November 2015 should have caught the attention of the chemicals industry. The National Treasury has indicated that it will stand firm on implementing the tax from 01 January 2017. The South African government has...