IND US TRY NE WS Metrohm announces Young Chemist Award Winners
food & drink technology Africa (fdt Africa),
addition to expanding the product line’s
the premier trade fair for processing,
pumps and laboratory equipment range,
As part of the company’s global jubilee
filling, packaging and logistics, as well as
Verder also acquired companies such as
celebrations, Metrohm made two
IFAT Africa, the leading environmental
Retsch, Carbolite Gero, and Qness. In 2014,
special awards to aspiring chemists at
technology show for the water, sewage,
the company’s liquids division acquired
its Young Chemist Award ceremonies in
refuse and recycling industries.
Italian firm Microdos and in 2015 acquired
Johannesburg and Cape Town.
This co-location will allow decisionmakers across the food and
Chemist Award The overall winner was young Mphoma
Andries
drink, chemical, pharmaceutical,
Verder, CEO
medical, agriculture, water
of the Verder
and waste as well as academics
Group, said:
value chains fields to explore
"The lines
the latest laboratory equipment
between
and analysis solutions. Up to
manufacturer
6 000 visitors are expected to
and
explore trends and innovations
distributor
in the field of laboratory and
are being
analysis, environmental
shortened.
technology sector, beverage and
These changes
food industries.
require a complete revision of organisational
Verder no. 1 in the top-100 Dutch manufacturing industry Mphoma Matsheke (right) received this year’s Young
pumps manufacturers Ponndorf and Packo.
Verder Group CEO Andries Verder
structures as we have known them up to now. It also offers great opportunities for internationally organised companies.” Verder also indicated that technology
Lab equipment specialists Verder
and the fourth industrial revolution will
are the number one brand in the
play a very important role in this change
Dutch Top 100 Made in Netherlands
process. “We see a clear trend where
manufacturing industry report.
customers are better informed and look
The ranking, published annually by Dutch
for suppliers that are objective in their
Matsheke from the University of
magazine Management Team, listing the
selection of technologies. Our mission
Johannesburg, who won the first prize of
100 most successful Dutch manufacturing
therefore is to have all possible know-how
R15 000 for her thesis on fuel cell research
companies with a turnover of less than
in niche market technologies in the field of
while Pearl Ngobeni from the University of
500 million Euros. Manufacturers that are
manufacturing, in order to offer customers
the Western Cape won the R10 000 second
financially stable achieve healthy growth
real solutions.”
prize for her research into biosensors that
and produce innovative products are
measure the efficiency of drugs used for the
chosen for the list.
treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. Matsheke, a PhD candidate at UJ,
Verder was selected based on their
“We are incredibly proud of this achievement, and to represent this innovative multinational organisation in
turnover, average revenue growth,
Africa” said Darryl Macdougall, managing
“Research work is always full of challenges,
profit growth and return on investment
director of Verder Pumps South Africa.
but with a positive mindset, one is capable
to shareholders during the past five
“This accolade is a testament to the quality
of overcoming them.” She believes that
years. Started as a trading company in
and performance assurance of not only our
one of the biggest challenges faced by
1959, Verder’s product range has grown
industrial pump solutions, but our services
research students is the lack of access
considerably during the last decade. In
as a completely integrated offering.” M
to characterisation techniques: “The equipment is very expensive to use and this affects one’s timelines.” The Young Chemist Award is aimed at rewarding the best of SA’s younger crop of chemists and incentivising novel research by young scientists.
New analytica Lab Africa mega fair to arrive in SA in 2019 International exhibition organiser Messe München’s South African division has acquired Lab Africa, the country’s only laboratory and analysis trade fair, and is set to deliver a bigger exhibition with broader reach in 2019. The new analytica Lab Africa trade fair, to be staged at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand from 9 to 11 July 2019, will bring to Africa the best of Lab Africa and the international analytica trade fair series, as well as co-locations with
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