Dolphin Bay Brief
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2025
October 2025
This newsletter contains good news on subjects ranging from progress at South African ports to Africa’s extraordinary Great Green Wall.
Newsletter stories:
- Why farmers are going undercover
- Fresh promise for SA’s ports
- No PCO training required in the wood preservation industry
- Exploring Africa’s Great Green Wall
- T-Rex meets AI
- Protreat is an eye-opener for plant managers (flashback story)
We hope you’ll find it interesting.
Sincerely,
Bertus Coetzee – MD
September 2025
Innovation, challenge and hope are the themes of the diverse stories in this edition, which encompasses reviews of Pro-Treat by plant operators and managers, advice on how to avoid the construction mafia, and more.
Newsletter stories:
- Pro-Treat, your invisible assistant
- Operators’ firm stamp of approval for Pro-Treat
- Pro-Treat is an “eye-opener” for plant managers
- Busting the construction mafia
- Praise for NBI’s pragmatism
- PCO certification complete for most treaters
- How mentorship changes lives
- Which customer would you choose? (flashback story of interest)
Enjoy the stories!
Sincerely,
Bertus Coetzee – MD
June/July 2025
From innovative technology to overviews on the timber treatment industry, there is news you can use in this edition of the Dolphin Bay Brief.
Newsletter stories:
- Green light for our Pro Treat Books
- No longer winking in the dark
- PCO registration process almost complete
- Compliant on medical surveillance? Dolphin Bay can help (Flashback story of interest)
- Which customer would you choose? (flashback story of interest)
Enjoy the stories!
Sincerely,
Bertus Coetzee – MD
June 2025
There is a thread connecting the three very diverse stories in this newsletter: how openness to each opportunity, giving our all, and operating with integrity benefit us on personal, social, and economic levels. Enjoy the stories!
Newsletter stories:
- How a self-taught physicist shaped the modern world
- How integrity talks – and grows your business
- Fixing Johannesburg
- Like watching a fish swim (flashback story of interest)
- Top student earns Dolphin Bay award (flashback story of interest)
Enjoy the stories!
Sincerely,
Bertus Coetzee – MD
April 2025
We live in an era of exploding technological developments. What might this mean for our businesses? This is so important to us that we’ve devoted the first story of this newsletter to it.
Newsletter stories:
- Adjusting our sails as the winds change
- My nephew Ryan, a dishwasher – and reading motives (flashback story of interest)
We hope you’re as intrigued as we were!
Sincerely,
Bertus Coetzee – MD
February 2025
What does 2025 hold for our businesses? How do we avoid the pitfalls and spot new opportunities? We hope that these stories will help you to pave the way.
Newsletter stories:
- On butlers, “cheese bandits”, and strangely coloured animals
- Like watching a fish swim
- Which customer would you choose?
- PCO registration process well underway
- Meet your tree (Flashback story from interest)
Enjoy the read!
Sincerely,
Bertus Coetzee – MD