Automation and AI are shaking up SA’s industrial equipment sector
Global surge in automated port and warehouse technology reshapes needs, with self-operating forklifts available
15 January 2025 - 05:00
With environmentally conscious companies shifting towards electric forklifts, dated, noisy and polluting internal combustion forklifts are expected to be largely phased out over the next five years. Then the next big frontier will be self-automated forklifts.
This is according to Victor Nemukula, MD of SA’s largest black-owned industrial and construction equipment provider, Shumani Industrial Equipment...
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