Automotive Industry Development Centre, Pretoria

The automotive industry will need to significantly improve its electricity management to remain competitive. This was the message heard by delegates at the "Lean to Green Workshop" hosted by the AIDC and Eskom last week.

Addressing close to 100 manufacturers at the workshop, AIDC Supplier Development Manager, Lance Schultz said that load shedding would likely be re-introduced by Eskom in the late part of the year as current projections indicated that energy supply would lag demand then.
The Automotive Industry Development Centre says more than 1000 automotive industry workers in the Metro will be HIV tested before the end of the year.

AWiSA HIV/AIDS expert, Martin Weihs, deployed at the AIDC, said a comprehensive workplace programme was being implemented at the factories of three prominent automotive component manufacturers namely Borbet, Spicer Axle and Federal Mogul.
The AIDC is the preferred provider of strategic solutions and government projects to the South African automotive industry.
The AIDC is a government-owned private service provider company that provide best practice solutions in:

Facilitating government and industry strategic initiatives; and
Implementing related projects.
The AIDC serves the South African automotive industry, government departments and government agencies on a national basis with the aim:

To grow the SA automotive industry’s global competitiveness;
To support the government’s automotive-related objectives;
To contribute to the government’s and industry’s goals of continuous growth and sustainable job creation;
To achieve this, the AIDC has:

A dedicated and professional team;
Government, industry and union support;
Access to local and international partnering networks.