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An Analysis of the South African Tyre Manufacturing Industry’s Skills Demand Profile: 2009-2020


Date posted:

2022/11/01

Publication year:

2012

Corporate author/s:

Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Education and Training Authority (MerSETA)

Person/s author/s:

Kirby, Sean; Terreblanche, Jeanne; Barnes, Justin

Output-type:

research report

Format:

pdf

This research report has been compiled for the New Tyre Chamber of the MerSETA, in response to its request for the completion of a sector report focusing on future employment and associated skills demands within the South African tyre manufacturing industry. The report examines the results from a detailed firm-level research study that objectively identified the skills profile of the four tyre manufacturers within the New Tyre Chamber, as well as its associated present and future skills supply requirements. Firm-level data for the period 2009 to 2012 was used to compile a detailed review of the current employment position at the New Tyre Chamber firms. In addition, based on the evolutionary path followed over the period 2009 to 2012, three skills demand (and supply) scenarios for the New Tyre Chamber firms were extrapolated for the next three (2015), five (2017) and eight years (2020) respectively. These three scenarios were then modelled over three different possible growth trends: maintenance of present trends (i.e., keeping the trend from 2009 to 2012 constant), an associated low growth projection, and an associated high growth projection.

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