What is the best strategy for getting ahead in business? Does being a good guy really pay or is it better to be cunning, even sneaky, in one’s own self-interest?... read more →
Katunda Magambo Shabani has become the first student to receive a special Dolphin Bay award for the top student in wood treatment at the Forestry and Wood Industry Training Centre... read more →
People could become Africa’s biggest export to the world’s most-developed countries in future, which wouldn’t be all bad news for the continent. This is the implication of a slew of... read more →
Dolphin Bay was delighted to install South Africa’s first preassembled wood treatment plant for our new customer, Brondal Treated Timbers, this month. Brondal, in the Nelspruit area of Mpumalanga province,... read more →
For the first time in many months there’s a palpable sense of optimism among Dolphin Bay’s South African customers who sell agricultural poles. Their markets have improved substantially, and most... read more →
Scientists at Stellenbosch University have completed long-awaited research into the adequacy of the standard for CCA retention in eucalyptus poles. The study results show that CCA retentions in vineyard poles... read more →
Meet Eucalyptus grandis, called rose gum in English, the subject of the research described in the story above and a stalwart of the South African forestry industry. We thought it... read more →
A woman turns to a forester called Philip, who is sitting next to her on an aeroplane, and asks genially, “So what do you do for a living?” “I’m a... read more →
Dolphin Bay and our occupational medicine specialist, Dr Greg Kew (pictured above), have drawn up a programme for biomedical evaluation compliance at our manufacturing facilities. Much of this programme, which... read more →
Dolphin Bay is delighted to be offering continued services to one of our longest-standing customers, Somerset Timbers in the Western Cape. These services recently included operator training. “As we've said... read more →
