Jul
19
The East African Community (EAC) has drafted top-quality new standards for timber treatment in the region, in a major leap towards the sustainability of its timber treatment industry. The standards are out for public comment until 30 July, and the World Trade Organisation has been notified. The meeting to set...
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Jul
19
Dolphin Bay’s Auto Strength Detector (ASD) is now available, offering our customers a way to ensure they are using the exact amount of CCA necessary for producing top-quality treated timber. Titration has been the most accurate method of determining solution strength until now. However, titration requires the operator to accurately...
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Jul
19
There’s more to factory automation than robots and machines. There’s a profoundly human aspect to it, too – as the people who operate the machinery could tell you. Cirvan Valentyn, who is based at the Dolphin Bay factory in Mossel Bay, was one of the workers chosen to learn to...
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Jul
19
In an exciting development for the African timber treatment industry, Dolphin Bay now offers a service to fully automate your timber treatment plant. The solution, called PROtreat, is a modularised system that uses as much of your existing plant as possible and the automation can be done in degrees, rather...
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Jul
19
In early 2020, the Dolphin Bay Brief first highlighted what was then the growing threat of illegal timber treatment. The problem has mushroomed into a national industry crisis. Concerted efforts by the South African Wood Preservers Association (SAWPA) for the authorities to take action had little effect over the years....
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Jul
19
Dolphin Bay is proud to be a member of the National Business Initiative (NBI), an umbrella body working dedicatedly behind the scenes to help solve South Africa’s seemingly intractable challenges. The NBI is a voluntary coalition of local and international companies working towards sustainable growth and development. It has worked...
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Apr
27
Our new client Komaza is the latest signatory to the Dolphin Bay Quality Pledge – and the Kenyan company sees the pledge as confirmation that they have made the right choice by joining the Dolphin Bay family. “The Quality Pledge is a beautiful idea,” said Komaza Processing Director Charles Kimiti....
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Apr
27
The economy is weird. We don’t say that lightly: economists and commentators from the New York Times to the Washington Post have used the same word – weird – to describe an environment where inflation is high (double digits, even in some developed economies), interest rates are high, and a global recession appears inevitable. At Dolphin...
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Apr
27
Dolphin Bay commissioned its second fully automated factory, in Sabie, just two weeks ago. And what an experience it was! The installation process was like climbing a steep, rocky mountain slope, encountering unforeseen chasms and rockslides – and almost losing our cool – along the way. But the team was...
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Apr
27
Dolphin Bay is happy to see many of our customers setting realistic prices for their treated timber. This gives a glimmer of hope for the sustainability of our sector. Unfortunately, some companies are still undermining the timber treatment industry by offering recklessly low prices to the market. We’ve noticed that...
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