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Hydraform International Pty Ltd. is a manufacturer of brick and blockmaking machines. It was founded in Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] The company specialises in brick and blockmaking machines and accessories that enable the development of a stabilised soil cement block or a compressed earth block (CEB). Their products include stabilised soil ...
[1] [2] In 2013, the Auto Trader Group sold their South African business, Auto Trader South Africa, which then became a wholly South African-owned business. [3] [4] The autotrader.co.za website is South Africa’s largest automotive marketplace website for buyers and sellers of both new and used cars and other types of vehicles.
Auto Trader was founded by John Madejski, [2] [3] Paul Gibbons and Peter Taylor as Thames Valley Trader in 1977. [4] It was rebranded Auto Trader in 1988. The first title was followed by the publication of a second one, Southern Auto Trader. [5] The company launched a website, Autotrader.co.uk, in 1996, giving people the ability to buy or sell ...
It was founded in 1843 by two young engineers, William Craven and Richard Bradley to manufacture what was then revolutionary machinery for automating clay brick production. Their 1853 patented ‘Stiff-Plastic Brickmaking Machine’ in combination with the Hoffman continuous kiln were responsible for changes in the industry which eventually saw ...
[3] [4] By the late 1990s Midland Brick was the world's largest exporter of clay bricks and pavers to Japan and South Korea and one of the world's biggest brick and paver exporters overall. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2006 the firm commissioned Kiln 11, a high-tech robotic kiln which can produce up to 50 million bricks each year.
In 1972, the union absorbed the Coloured, Malay and Asiatic Building Workers' Union, followed in 1980 by the majority of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers of South Africa. This took its membership up to 19,000. [7] In 1991, it was a founding affiliate of the short-lived Federation of Independent Trade Unions. [8]
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Henry Clayton, employed at the Atlas Works in Middlesex, England, in 1855, patented a brick-making machine that was capable of producing up to 25,000 bricks daily with minimal supervision. [30] His mechanical apparatus soon achieved widespread attention after it was adopted for use by the South Eastern Railway Company for brick-making at their ...