With today’s workforce ageing and many employees opting to continue working full-time even after retirement age, how can businesses ensure that younger workers are still offered the opportunities they deserve?

By David Dumeresque

Here are some interesting figures for you to consider. From May 2011 to May 2012, the number of people employed aged 65 and over in the UK increased by 34,000 to reach 929,355, the highest figure since comparable records began in 1992.

South Africa’s MWEB Business offers a range of affordable, tailored services for small and medium enterprises that address individual needs, improve efficiency and help realise cost savings.

ATMOS Global’s new VerifiedDust platform is a journey in the pursuit and discovery of environmental excellence, says its global president and CEO Dr Orestis Valianatos.

An investment of US$800 million by owners Rio Tinto and Harry Winston Diamond Corporation to build the underground mine will sustain Diavik production well past 2020.

Even though the need to have properly inflated tires is widely understood, it is an area that is often ignored—but there is help at hand.

A tire blowout on a freight truck is disruptive enough, what with time lost for both the driver and vehicle, not to mention irate customers with unfulfilled delivery schedules. But just imagine how much devastation an unexpected tire problem would be on some of the mining industry’s earth moving vehicles.

Ireland’s DCC has agreed to acquire from Statoil Fuel & Retail the trade, fixed assets, stock and goodwill of its industrial LPG business in Sweden and Norway.

As part of the transaction, DCC will enter into long-term LPG supply contracts with Statoil, the international energy company.

During the first half of 2012, the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved US$800 million in loans to encourage private investment in Morocco’s growing wind and solar markets.

The bank’s support of Morocco’s plan to develop a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at Ouarzazate and its Integrated Wind/Hydro and Rural Electrification Program is helping the country realise its goal of increasing its installed renewable energy capacity to 42 per cent by 2020.

Enovos Luxembourg and its project partners Pholpa and NPG Energy have celebrated the opening ceremony for the Biopower Tongeren biogas plant in the province of Limburg, Belgium.

In the presence of the minister of Economy and Innovation Ingrid Lieten, the mayor of Tongeren Patrick Dewael, and the CEO of Enovos Luxembourg Jean Lucius, the plant’s engines were started and will run on average 8,200 hours per year.

The biogas plant is the first of its kind in the Benelux. It uses a pre-fermentation tank that enables a higher biogas production.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has formed an executive committee composed of high-level manufacturing professionals from the aerospace and defense OEMs to assist in the development of AeroDef Manufacturing 2013.

The aerospace and defense event will be held from 19-21 March, 2013, at the Long Beach Convention Center in California. AeroDef has unprecedented support from OEMs to keep the industry competitive in the face of major economic and public policy challenges.