27 July 2023, Cape Town – The All Africa Expo ISTMA 2023, which consists of the 16th ISTMA World Conference coinciding with the inaugural All Africa Expo, has officially partnered with South African Tourism to give delegates to the event a memorable experience of the host city, Cape Town, and of South Africa.
South African Tourism is the national tourism agency responsible for marketing South Africa as a preferred tourist destination and has put together a special programme for attending delegates and their partners to enjoy Cape Town and South Africa.
Cape Town is one of the world’s best known and loved cities with Table Mountain – one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the magnificent Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and an array of renowned culinary destinations and wine routes on its doorstep.
Attractions that will be enjoyed on the Accompanying Partner Programme include an open-topped, hop-on-hop-off bus tour of the Constantia Wine Valley, a day of shopping at the V&A Waterfront and a yacht cruise in Table Bay. Several other day tours and activities have been made available for booking on the website, for guests to experience the best of what the Western Cape and Southern Africa has to offer.
The ISTMA 16th World Conference, is the triennial World Conference of the International Special Tooling and Machining Association (ISTMA) – the world’s largest representative body for global tooling manufacturing. The conference will cover the topics of Sustainable development, Technical advances in tooling manufacturing and Skills development and promises knowledge sharing and networking opportunities for delegates in the mould, die, special tooling and precision machining industry.
The All Africa Expo will give African countries a platform to showcase their tooling manufacturing capabilities and investment potential to delegates from around the world and will also offer continental tooling producers exposure to the world’s foremost tooling technology, tooling houses and influential role-players. This first-of-its-kind platform is a nod to Africa’s spirit of innovation and manufacturing excellence.
“We are excited about our partnership with South African Tourism and know that attendees to the All Africa Expo ISTMA 2023 will not only enjoy a quality and professionally organized conference bringing together industry giants, thought leaders and influential delegates from 22 countries, but will also get to relax and experience the wonderful Western Cape like never before,” said Bob Williamson, President at ISTMA.
The All Africa Expo ISTMA 2023 will be hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) from the 6 – 10 November 2023.
Registration for the conference is open, and interested parties are encouraged to visit the event’s website for additional information, including a full list exhibitors, scheduled events and more.
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Notes for Editors
PtSA has a partnership with the South African Department and Trade Industry and Competition (the dtic) the INTSIMBI Future Production Technologies Initiative (FPTI) which is a national (South African), multi-stakeholder initiative that was established to implement a turnaround strategy for South Africa’s distressed tooling industry. The Initiative is enabling government and industry to cooperate on the large-scale interventions required to rehabilitate the South African Tool, Die and Mouldmaking (TDM) sector for the benefit of the South African manufacturing sector. The partnership between the tooling industry (PtSA) and government (the dtic) on the development and implementation of the INTSIMBI (FPTI) Programme is governed by an overarching memorandum of agreement (MOA) and supported by an annual service level agreement (SLA) between the two parties. The local TDM industry has over the past 25 years lost considerable (80%) tooling capacity. Local companies currently satisfy less than 15% of the local and less than one per cent of global TDM demand as they have failed to adopt the technology and production efficiencies of their developed counterparts. Ageing skills capacity in the sector has not replaced timeously leading to a serious skills shortage in the TDM industry. The performance of the sector remained curtailed by the low demand in South Africa’s main export markets in the developed world. Since its onset the INTSIMBI FPTI, however, sought to not only halt the decline of the sector but to embark on a robust rehabilitation programme to put the local TDM industry on a firm trajectory to international competitiveness.
PtSA has a cooperation agreement with the Werkzeugbau Akademie (WBA) in Germany which is the leading world partner of the TDM industry in the areas of consulting, further education and research for the tooling sector.
Further, PtSA has a partnership agreement with the National Institute for Metalworking Skills of America (NIMS) for the skills development leg of the management services. PtSA is a member of the International Special Tooling and Machining Association which gives the members access to a number of international associations and member companies, and also has partnership agreements with a number of national organisations for the benefit of its members.
PtSA Management Services (Pty) Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Production Technologies Association of South Africa NPO (PtSA). It is a special purpose vehicle and the operational capacity of PtSA, in addition, it is the implementation agency responsible for the facilitation and management of all INTSIMBI FPTI programmes.
