Dolphin Bay has set up a Quality Pledge website, providing easy access to all the information you may need about our quality assurance programme. The user-friendly website, www.qualitypledge.co.za, outlines the six principles constituting the pledge and the process that follows your signature. It also provides a flow diagram outlining the... read more →

Quadra is a user-friendly digital treatment book requiring minimal input. It allows timber treaters to make precise calculations, store data safely and transfer it instantaneously. It also leaves managers with “more time to manage their operations”. This is some of the praise for the Dolphin Bay system from Khulani Timber... read more →

The price of CCA is driven by the exchange rate and cost of the commodities it contains. Copper is a key element in the manufacturing of CCA, and its price has risen by up to 22% this year, augmenting a long-term trend. What is causing the rise in the copper... read more →

The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has officially launched new specs for timber treatment, in line with international standards. This is an extremely positive development as it will go a long way towards ensuring the production of quality treated timber in Tanzania, and thus the sustainability of the industry in... read more →

We recently bought an atomic absorbent spectroscopy to help optimise our own production levels. In a stroke of serendipity, the machine has arrived at a time when many of our clients need to analyse their waste – another function the spectroscopy can fulfil. Analysing your waste would allow it to... read more →

New regulations governing the disposal of hazardous waste are now being implemented, with tolerance of much lower concentrations than were previously accepted. The regulations were published in 2013 and came into effect in August this year. They require timber treaters, and all other producers of hazardous waste, to submit samples... read more →

The National Business Initiative (NBI) has introduced an ambitious new project aiming to help ensure long-term water security for both business and communities across South Africa. Called Kopano ya Metsi, meaning “meeting for water”, this project is examining public-private partnerships (PPPs) as one way of addressing the country’s estimated R668... read more →

In this treatment tip from our Senior Technical Advisor Gareth Jantjies, we would like to share some insight on a routine matter that can nevertheless create difficulties if not properly understood. It relates to the under-treatment of timber. Most of our customers understand the vacuum process and how to apply... read more →

Khulani Timber Industries has become the second company to sign our Quality Pledge, and the company’s CEO, Mark Tullis, has appealed to other timber treaters to follow suit. Signing the pledge strengthened the company’s commitment to providing quality poles to its clients throughout Africa and to environmental sustainability, said Mark.... read more →

Dolphin Bay is proud to be of service to our new client Merensky in Langeni. We are particularly pleased that the package of tailor-made services we offered was the deciding factor for them. Merensky is one of the oldest and most well-known forestry and sawmill companies in South Africa, and... read more →