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A better year in a difficult environment

The group had a better year as order be a critical focus area for the group, as intake improved, particularly in the the continent improves both its infra- latter months when the local and structure and added-value industries. global economies began a fragile We are well positioned, with our unique recovery. local capacity, experience and skill base Municipal markets recovered, as to continue building a sustainable pres- did the mining and industrial sectors. ence on the continent. Eskom demand also increased, which The company is continuing to focus contributed much needed loading for on its empowerment credentials in the factories which received orders. line with government and customer Unfortunately, the recent political policies and is working on developing environment has created instability a sustainable structure in partnership and markets have slowed over the past with all stakeholders. few months. Nevertheless economic Management focus will remain on fundamentals, although still tentative, developing, retaining and supporting remain positive and local demand our staff and our asset infrastructure should improve strongly once political in order to ensure that when stability and economic certainty returns. standard maintenance procedures are and growth return to normal levels Prospects for the group remain re-implemented on the back of re- we will be ready to capitalise on the positive as the need for power both sumed sustainable economic growth. opportunities. locally and in Africa continues to grow Government remains committed to In conclusion I would like to once in both the traditional and renewable supporting local manufacture, which again thank all management, staff and sectors. In addition the maintenance should provide loading for our factories other stakeholders for their hard work backlog on the regional transmission and allow ongoing investment into both and support over the past unsettled and distribution system continues to capital and technology. year. remain largely unaddressed. This will Development and further penetra- provide significant opportunities when tion of the African market continues to Mark Wilson Group launching new growth initiatives The past year has seen South wards diversifying the business in the Africa face extremely challenging medium term from both a product and conditions economically. This has geographic perspective, the intention manifested in an exceptionally slow here being to grow ACTOM’s presence growth for the country. Political in Africa by the development of indus- and policy uncertainty have led to a trial hubs in key regions. slowdown in investment on both the Regarding the group’s performance domestic and international fronts. in terms of the broad-based black The key factors that have led to the economic empowerment regulations, reduced growth have been low com- ACTOM has done exceptionally well in modity pricing and a general slowdown the latest round of B-BBEE assessments across most sectors. We have seen a by maintaining its Level 3 B-BBEE sta- major slowdown in product purchases tus overall and in most of its divisions. from the electricity utilities. The manu- I’d like to add a word of thanks to facturing sector has been particularly all our divisions and business units for badly affected, the effects of which it change its traditional business model. their dedication and exceptional per- have been compounded by the growth Government has intervened in the formance under extremely challenging of imports of electrical equipment. The interests of local manufacturers in des- conditions. We have performed well on recent downgrades in our sovereign ignating certain locally manufactured all fronts, being financial, B-BBEE, envi- rating will further compound challeng- products which government institu- ronmental and health & safety, where es and we expect this to directly impact tions are now obliged to purchase in we have achieved a disabling injury on our business in the coming year. preference to imports, aiding develop- frequency rate for the group of 1,45. On the positive side, our John ment of local industry going forward. In closing, we are currently going Thompson business has performed My focus in the coming months through extremely turbulent times with exceptionally well, in particular the will be around the poorly performing major political noise. This tends to be a Utility & Environmental Boiler unit. Also divisions in the group with a view to distraction and my advice to everyone noteworthy is that our MV Switchgear turning them around. A further key is that we need to stay focussed and division has acquired the WPI Power focus will be to optimise synergies manage issues which are within our Solutions business and transformed between group divisions and continue control as best we can. I am optimistic it into a sustainable and profitable to grow our core business. This will that our economy will turn and we need business within a nine-month period. include, amongst others, issues around to be well poised when that happens. Marthinusen & Coutts has also secured systems offerings. substantial export work which has seen There will be a very strong drive to- Mervyn Naidoo What’s Watt June 2017 2 Corporate

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ACTOM’s maintenance offering Pg 3 Interim Eskom contract for Distribution Transformers Pg 16

Newly appointment Group CEO, Mervyn Naidoo Pg 6 LHM manufactures transformers in record time Pg 16

Annual Chairman’s Award Pg 6 LHM expands into Angolan market Pg 17

Balmoral College learners shine Pg 7 R&M pool group resources for urgent refurbishment Pg 18

Completion of water tube boiler in Java Pg 8 M&C completes Africa’s largest rotor pole refurb Pg 19

John Thompson awarded CE quality marking Pg 9 First Electro-mechanical Installation in Panama Pg 20

J T wins bid for Ghanian edible oil refinery Pg 10 First International orders received for Relco products Pg 21

Electrical Machines open branch in Richards Bay Pg 12 TLT ACTOM awarded Sasol Mining contract Pg 22

Static Power’s modular UPS system Pg 12 ACTOM Energy to add value to ACTOM divisions Pg 23

Signalling complete rail yards project upgrade Pg 12 Power Systems’ Sy Gourrah SAIEE Jnr Vice President Pg 25

HV dual-voltage (VT) transformer developed Pg 13 ACTOM T&D wins award at AUW exhibition Pg 26

MV Switchgear’s new effluent treatment plant Pg 14 Long Service awards Pg 27

P&C signs new distributorship agreement Pg 15 Electrical Products staff triumph at 2017 Dusi Pg 29

Cover The images portray the diverse variety of maintenance projects undertaken by the various ACTOM Group divisions. See pages 3 & 5.

ACTOM’s asset lifecycle maintenance offering Investing in operational equipment can run into millions so the expec- tation for assets of this nature to last for years is not surprising. Key to extending the lifespan of any equipment is ensuring it is well maintained throughout the asset lifecycle. ACTOM, through a number of its divisions and business units, has been providing maintenance services to customers for many years. Currently, depending on the nature of an ACTOM business unit, maintenance accounts for anything between 10% – 90% of ACTOM’s maintenance offering revenue. As the largest manufacturer, solution provider, repairer, maintainer “In these demanding times, it our business both locally and across and distributor of electro-mechanical is imperative to extract maximum Africa. Time and time again we have equipment in Africa, extending its value from your plant and equipment. seen the entrepreneurial spirit amongst range of maintenance options makes ACTOM Solutions, as a project busi- our staff and I am confident that given strategic sense. ness with front-end engineering capa- the opportunity and tools, our staff will With ACTOM’s diverse structure bilities, can provide customers with the grow our maintenance capability,” ex- that includes design, manufacturing, optimal maintenance solution. By es- plained Mervyn Naidoo, Group CEO. condition monitoring and maintenance, tablishing ACTOM Solutions, we have The acquisition of WPI Power the solutions their OEM status offers, initiated the process of laying a founda- Solutions (WPI) in 2016 accelerated would be most beneficial to custom- tion for a division that is able to provide ACTOM’s maintenance offering. WPI’s ers. By making use of ACTOM’s diverse maintenance solutions offerings across core business is the repair and mainte- maintenance offering, customers Group products. It is important that nance of electrical networks. Martin would no longer have the burden of we integrate the current maintenance Kelly, Divisional CEO responsible for managing a number of service pro- services we offer to our customers WPI elaborates, “We have provided viders, but enjoy a ‘one-stop shop’ so that we are able to take advantage maintenance and testing of switch- solution for all their maintenance of every opportunity available to us, gear equipment to companies such as requirements. through our existing contracts, to grow To page 4 3 What’s Watt June 2017 Corporate

From page 3 million rand contract was awarded to Sasol, Anglo Gold Ashanti and Anglo MV Switchgear and Martin Kelly, MV American for many years. On most of Switchgear’s Divisional CEO explains these sites we have dedicated teams the scope, “Electrical distribution to ensure that equipment is well main- equipment is repaired and main- tained. A priority within these busi- tained for the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan ness sectors is health and safety and Municipality by 15 multi-disciplinary as part of the maintenance contract, teams of between two and eight mem- we ensure that all equipment meets bers each. The contract incorporates regulatory requirements.” maintenance of the properties occu- Regulatory maintenance is an area pied by the equipment because our of maintenance that is often over- teams understand the dangers within looked. ACTOM, as a manufacturer, these environments.” remains abreast of all regulatory re- A notable highway maintenance quirements, both locally and abroad, project is performed for SANRAL and is in an ideal position to provide whereby ACTOM’s business unit, WPI regulatory maintenance and issue the as part of the Switchgear Aftersales necessary compliance documentation. and our JV partner Dev-Tech, is re- John Thompson, the division of sponsible for the maintenance of ACTOM that specialises in boiler ser- street lighting along a 420km stretch vices, attributes as much as 85% of of highway in Gauteng. revenue to maintenance. Commenting Reid and Mitchell hold a full range of electrical A large portion of the work per- on the success of the division, rotating equipment critical spares, for customers formed by Reid and Mitchell in the Tobie Jansen, General Manager, for in the mining sector, to ensure a reduction in mining sector, with customers includ- John Thompson Utility Boilers and operational downtime. ing Anglo Coal, South 32 and Glencore, Environmental said, “By providing our amongst ACTOM customers. The is preventative maintenance. On-site customers a quality maintenance of- scope of maintenance is determined engineers identify issues on equip- fering, we have built our business, and by the nature of the equipment being ment by monitoring aspects such as those of our customers, year-on-year. maintained. It is either performed at vibration, low performance and poor We have a thorough understanding of predetermined intervals, sometimes commutation and take preventative the key aspects of maintenance and termed time-based maintenance, and or corrective measures before any assist our customers throughout the is usually specified by the manufacturer breakdown occurs. lifecycle of their equipment.” or in some cases by the customer The aim of a maintenance pro- themselves. Otherwise, preventative gramme is to prevent downtime, but What exactly is maintenance? maintenance is conducted on a daily when this is not achievable, it is im- The engineering definition of main- basis and includes cleaning, inspection, perative that customers minimise that tenance, as listed in the Business tightening of parts and oiling in order down-time by having critical spares Dictionary, states, “Actions necessary to ensure that equipment runs at its readily available. Reid and Mitchell for retaining or restoring a piece of full potential. hold a full range of electrical rotating equipment, machine, or system to the Many of ACTOM’s key customers, equipment critical spares for a number specified operable condition to achieve including the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan of dragline customers and downtime is its maximum useful life.” Municipality (EMM) and SANRAL, minimised because parts can immedi- The maintenance philosophy adopt- trust ACTOM to perform preventative ately be replaced. Reid and Mitchell is ed by a business is determined by maintenance for them. then able to repair or even manufacture taking into consideration a number MV Switchgear maintains and re- the replaced part to return to stock. of factors including, existing in-house pairs high voltage and medium voltage In some instances, businesses resources; finances; productivity distribution substations, including mini may even adopt a deliberate run-to-fail schedules and the availability of skills substations for the EMM. This multi- strategy for less critical items or in and manpower. A customer, for example, may choose to perform a number of the maintenance functions in-house and only bring in the ACTOM maintenance team for annual shutdown mainte- nance as part of their preventative maintenance programme. The business unit, WPI Power Solutions, has performed shutdown maintenance for Foskor for the past five years. During shutdown, the full range of transformers are seen to, over a five-day period, by a team of ap- proximately 90 people. This minimises downtime and increases productivity. Other businesses may elect to perform preventative maintenance, a The ACTOM maintenance team working on No. 7 to 11 GEC Turbines & 12 to 13 Escher Wyss Turbines practice that appears to be favoured (60MW) at the Kelvin Power Station What’s Watt June 2017 4 Corporate

cases where the cost to maintain is higher than that to replace or repair. But, ideally one would like to prevent any breakdowns taking place and this is achieved through corrective mainte- nance and the ultimate maintenance offering, predictive maintenance. Corrective maintenance takes place when equipment is not performing to specification or an anomaly is detected by the operator. Maintenance at this stage could prevent further deteriora- tion or the risk of equipment failure. This approach is adopted when the downtime for repair is lower than the investment in a full maintenance programme. Through its Fluidex business, LH Laboratory Technician, Mildred Shai, and Laboratory Supervisor, Riette de Bruyn performing oil health Marthinusen (LHM) offers transformer checks at the Fluidex laboratory. customers a service whereby trans- terioration of those parts and ensure a loyal customer who will retain your former oil is tested and analysed by a that alerts are sent timeously in order services and refer you to other potential team of technical experts and chemists to prevent failure. “This is a highly customers. to determine the ‘health’ of the trans- technical and customised service that The business partnership between former. Any potential issues are iden- ideally needs to be designed prior to, Marthinusen and Coutts and Kelvin tified and Fluidex then recommends and fitted during, the manufacturing Power Station is a good example. solutions including oil regeneration or process.” Kelvin Power Station is a privately- new oil supply. This is a combination ACTOM Industry provide ex- owned coal fired power station that of preventative/predictive and correc- pert winder services to the mines. supplies power to Johannesburg’s City tive maintenance and highlights the Maintenance in this sector includes Power. Since Aldwych International benefit of ACTOM business units and rope and winder inspections and dy- took over the management of the divisions working together. The chem- namic brake testing. The technical sup- power station it has exceeded budg- ists at Fluidex perform a predictive port teams provide highly specialised eted availability three years in a row. role through testing and the LHM field repair services and onsite breakdown This partnership developed when service teams carry out the necessary support. Cetus Turbo Machinery, now ACTOM maintenance. We have highlighted the benefits of Turbo Machines, was commissioned Commenting on how Fluidex is able an effective maintenance programme to overhaul and upgrade five 60MW to further support customers, David and understand the various financial turbine generator sets and staff from Sullivan, Divisional CEO of LHM, implications, but the non-financial Marthinusen and Coutts worked along- said, “Key to the service we offer our benefits are often overlooked. Regular, side this team repairing one of the sta- customers is our database that details scheduled visits to customers, ensure tion’s 60MW synchronous alternators. trends that have been tracked through that you remain front of mind and are Paul Collier, General Manager of the analysis of oil samples. We are able an integral part of a customer’s work- Kelvin Power attributes part of their to determine the expected remaining ing solution. A satisfied customer is success to strong supplier partner- life of their transformers and identify ships. “When we embarked on this issues and in so doing, provide informa- business venture, we needed a team tion to our customers to assist them who was prepared to help identify with maintenance or even equipment the scope of work that needed to be replacement.” done to be fully operational again. We Predictive maintenance is recom- started with a team of about nine peo- mended for customers with equipment ple and now have a dedicated, on-site availability levels of 90% and more. maintenance team of 15 people who Equipment is monitored via surveil- understand what needs to be achieved lance and on-line systems and the in order for us to succeed.” data generated is analysed for trends Increasingly we have seen many and compared to previous data for a companies choose to focus on their running health check. core business and outsource non-core “Truly effective predictive main- activities with positive results not only tenance programmes require an inti- financially, but from a business reputa- mate knowledge of the various types tion point of view. Andries Tshabalala, of equipment and components that Deputy Chairman of ACTOM comment- need to be monitored,” said Janna ed, “Our aim is to establish ACTOM as Kapp, General Manager (Designate) for the go-to company for maintenance ACTOM Industry. He further explained and support, particularly where critical that engineers need to identify those infrastructure is at stake. We want to wearing parts most likely to cause develop meaningful business partner- malfunction and then design a way Keabetswe Matlhare, a Technician at ACTOM ships and quote to provide asset lifecy- in which to monitor or predict the de- Industry, tests a drive controller. cle support rather than just products.” 5 What’s Watt June 2017 Corporate

Mervyn Naidoo appointed Group CEO of ACTOM

Mervyn Naidoo has been appointed ment as Group CEO, Mark also an- Group CEO of ACTOM with effect nounced the appointment of Andries from March 1, 2017. Tshabalala as Deputy Chairman with Mervyn, formerly Divisional CEO of effect from March 1, 2017. Andries the LH Marthinusen division, succeeds previously held the post of Group Mark Wilson, who has held the Group Executive Director. CEO post since 1996. “The Board and I would like to take Mark, who has been Chairman this opportunity to wish Mervyn and of ACTOM since 2008, retains the Andries well with their new respon- Chairman position. sibilities and look forward to working In announcing Mervyn’s appoint- together in growing and developing the ACTOM Group in the upcoming years,” Mark commented. Andries’ main responsibilities as Deputy Chairman will be to assist both Andries Tshabalala, appointed Deputy Chairman Mervyn and himself with strategy, of ACTOM. customer liaison and empowerment, cal rotating machines and transformers Mark added. repair markets belonged. Mervyn was appointed Divisional At the time of the acquisition CEO of LH Marthinusen (LHM) in Mervyn was an Executive Director mid-2014. He was previously Divisional of Savcio Holdings and the group’s CEO of Reid & Mitchell (R&M), which Business Development Executive. he was appointed to in 2012, follow- An electrical engineer by profession, ing ACTOM’s acquisition in early-2012 he has also held senior management of the former Savcio Group, to which posts in several other local electrical Mervyn Naidoo, newly-appointed Group CEO of LHM, R&M and a number of other lead- rotating machine repair companies ACTOM. ing businesses operating in the electri- during his 25-year career. John Thompson attains fourth Chairman’s Award win John Thompson has been success- ful for the fourth time in winning the group’s Chairman’s Award as the top-achieving division in the past year. John Thompson’s success in win- ning the prized award for the year to end-March 2017 follows its earlier suc- cesses in the first three years since the award’s inception in 2012, followed by it being selected for the subsequent year, 2015, as joint winner, alongside Medium Voltage & Protection, of the Runner-Up Award. Chairman Mark Wilson presented the awards as part of the group’s an- nual review meeting held in Boksburg, Front Row: Group CEO, Mervyn Naidoo; Group Chairman, Mark Wilson; Divisional CEO of John Thompson, Gauteng, at the end of May 2017. Mark Andy Abbey; Group Deputy Chairman, Andries Tshabalala. Back Row: Divisional CEO of Medium Voltage & thanked the winning businesses for Protection, Martin Kelly; General Manager for ACTOM Industry, Neville Lock; General Manager for Static their excellent performance under very Power, Elsabe Swart; Divisional CEO for Wilec, Steve Jordaan; General Manager for ACTOM Contracting, challenging economic conditions over Greg Smith; Divisional CEO of LHM, David Sullivan; General Manager of ACTOM Turbo Machines, Chris the past year. Bezuidenhout; and General Manager of John Thompson Utility Boilers & Enviornmental, Tobie Jansen. As in 2015, two divisions were ognition of the outstanding progress it Unit Certificates of Excellence. selected this year for the Runner-Up has made in the past year. No more than three business award – Medium Voltage & Protection Apart from John Thompson’s overall units have previously been recipi- – last year’s Chairman’s Award winner triumph as winner of the Chairman’s ents of Business Unit Certificates of – and LH Marthinusen. Award, a further achievement within Excellence. Mark explained that the Like LHM, Wilec featured for the the Power division was the selection increase to five recipients is partly first time as an award winner this of the Utility Boilers & Environmental attributable to the greater recognition year, being presented with a Divisional business unit as one of five business that has been given than previously Certificate of Excellence award in rec- units named as winners of Business to the widely differing conditions and What’s Watt June 2017 6 Corporate

circumstances under which various evaluation criteria that are applied in as- them – even when they turn out to be divisions and business units operate. sessing the worthiness of the various not entirely successful,” he explained. “There are a number of examples group businesses for awards by ap- Besides the aforementioned that may be cited where a specific plying greater discretion in taking into Utility Boilers & Environmental busi- change in business conditions has a account the various challenges each ness unit, the other units present- strongly positive effect on one unit’s has been faced with during the year ed with Business Unit Certificates business, while having a strongly nega- under review and the measures they of Excellence were Static Power, tive impact on another. Therefore it is have adopted to deal with them. Industry, Contracting and ACTOM unfair to apply one set of evaluation “Consequently not only successes Turbo Machines – this being a repeat criteria to all indiscriminately,” he said. in overcoming challenges are taken performance on last year in the case “In recognising this, we have been into account, but also the efforts and of the latter three units. less stringently reliant on the various measures that are applied to address

Balmoral College learners shine Balmoral College, a longstanding sponsorship beneficiary of the group, in 2016 achieved a 100% pass rate for the tenth year in succession and scored great success in the lat- est local Eisteddfod. Tenth year of 100% Pass rate At the end of last year Balmoral College celebrated the impressive feat of achieving 100% matric passes for 10 years in succession. It is one of only three schools in the Ekurhuleni South District to do so. As a result, Balmoral College re- ceived a Special Merit Award, pre- sented by the District Director for the Seen in the above picture are all the Balmoral College learners who participated in the 2016 Eisteddfod, Ekurhuleni South District, Mr M H encompassing the choir, poetry and art competitions. Bhagaloo, at the awards ceremony and art competitions for the first time. choir, while Thoko Dube, the college’s for the district at the end of January. In In last year’s event, the high school Maths teacher, was Choir Mistress for addition, a number of teachers received choir won a Diploma (90-100%) in both the junior school choir. special awards as top educators in the the High School Choir and Informal Participants from Balmoral College district of their subjects. Choir competitions, while the junior also achieved impressive results in the school choir won a Diploma in the poetry and art competitions. They en- Local Eisteddfod Primary Senior Choir competition. In tered all categories of the poetry com- The school’s choir has taken part in addition, the two choirs achieved an petition, which encompassed English the Eisteddfod since 2014, with excel- Eisteddfod “first” by joining forces in a and Afrikaans as well as individual and lent results, but last year marks the mass choir of 110 learners in the Open group recitals and readings. college’s highest achievement to date competition, which they won with a Christine Meyer, HOD of in the Eisteddfod. Gold (80-90%). Languages at the college, gave guid- For the first time a junior school “We were the overall winners in ance and instruction to learners partici- choir comprising learners from Grades all four of these competitions,” said pating in the poetry competition, while 4 to 7 joined the high school choir in par- Roan Halgryn, the College’s Head Belinda Dadswell, Afrikaans teacher ticipating in the event. In addition, the of Sport, Culture and Recreation. He for Grades 5 & 6, was responsible for college entered the Eisteddfod’s poetry was Choirmaster for the high school those taking part in the art competition. Grade 12 learner wins Germiston section of schools public speaking competition Balmoral College achieves suc- aspects of HIV and AIDS and Hlengiwe, cess in the 2017 Public Speaking who attained second place in the Competition for high schools in Germiston schools portion of the com- the area, sponsored by Ekurhuleni petition last year, won this year’s event Municipality. with her speech on “Comprehensive In this competition, Grade 12 learn- sexual reproductive health rights and er Hlengiwe Ncube was named win- responsibilities in schools”. ner of the portion of the competition in which 10 Germiston high schools took part in February this year. All the speeches given focussed on Hlengiwe Ncube 7 What’s Watt June 2017 Corporate Power

Wits Electrical Engineering students tour Knights factories Electrical engineering students from the Wits School of Electrical & Information Engineering visited ACTOM’s Knights site in early-May this year to gain exposure to some practical applications of their field of study. ACTOM, which is a sponsor of the School’s energy laboratory, has hosted site tours at Knights for senior students of the school for a number of years. The latest tour was attended by 45 third-year students who were given a presentation about the group as a whole by Tembela Caza, Divisional CEO for Transmission & Distribution, and were then guided through all the facto- ries on the site in four separate groups, The picture above shows one of the ing the tanking process applied in the led by technical personnel from each groups in the Distribution Transformers production of a 500kVA distribution unit who explained the manufacturing factory, where Senior Production transformer. processes they were shown. Manager Piet Booysen is seen explain- John Thompson completes water-tube boilers contract for sugar mill in Java John Thompson recently carried The contract was the first contract ported design, suspended from a steel out performance tests following won by John Thompson for industrial structure by specially designed hanger the completion of the assembly and water-tube boilers in South-East Asia. rods that allow them to swing during erection of two 100t/h multi-fuel The boilers are designed to supply an earthquake to reduce the impact. water-tube boilers and pre-boiler 100t/h when bagasse-fired and 50t/h The design incorporates a tall wa- plant as supplied to the Indonesian with marine fuel oil (MFO). They oper- ter-cooled combustion chamber, two- government’s new sugar mill in ate on bagasse during the season but stage pendant superheater, mud drum Eastern Java. on wood chips or oil during the off-crop attemporator, single-pass generating John Thompson was awarded the period. bank and heat recovery equipment multi-million rand contract in late-2013 To meet the refinery turn-down comprising a two-stage parallel-flow and manufactured and supplied the operating requirements during the air heater and an economiser to meet pressure parts, combustion equipment off-crop period, the boilers are capable the required initial thermal efficiency and other critical components, while of steaming at a load of 30t/h continu- on net calorific value (NCV) of 80,67%. the fabrication of non-critical parts and ously when firing bagasse, wood or The boilers are fitted with John the assembly and erection of the boil- MFO, as specified. Thompson’s well-proven three-drum ers were undertaken by local contrac- As the plant is located in an earth- bagasse feeders, pneumatic spreaders tors under John Thompson’s direction. quake zone, the boilers are a top-sup- and stationary water-cooled pin-hole grates. Each boiler is equipped with a steam heater to heat the feed-water to prevent dew point corrosion of the economisers. The draught plant incorporates single forced draught (FD), secondary air (SA) and induced draught (ID) fans for each boiler. The fans are fixed- speed damper-controlled units. Each boiler has an electrostatic precipitator installed between the back-end heat recovery equipment and the ID fan in order to limit particulate emissions to below 50mg/Nm3. Flue gases exit through a common self-supporting chimney stack. The fly ash is removed by a sluice system and the coarse ash is discharged into a common submerged-belt ash The water-tube boilers and pre-boiler plant for the new sugar mill in Eastern Java under construction. conveyor. What’s Watt June 2017 8 Power

John Thompson awarded CE quality marking for steam generator for EU customer Towards the end of 2016 John pressure equipment requirements for designed and manufactured to the Thompson was contracted by a fired equipment, piping and quantita- requirements of the relevant HSS and European-based company to supply tive requirements for certain pressure PED. a 12t/h 14bar(g) steam generator equipment. John Thompson selected conform- – complete with CE marking, the In order to adhere to the ESR’s, ity assessment Module G for its steam European Union (EU) quality ap- John Thompson made use of har- generator from among the Category IV proval stamp – to their processing monised European health and safety conformity assessment modules listed plant in Ghana. standards (HSS) EN 12953, EN 13445 in the PED. CE (Conformitè Europèene) mark- and EN 13480. Module G tasks the NoBo with the ing is a mandatory conformity marking Step 3: Determine the product haz- following responsibilities: for some products sold within the EU. ard/risk category (i) Examine design and construction of The European Pressure Equipment The next step was to determine the each item of the pressure equipment Directive (PED) 2014/68/EU is a set risk category of the steam generator in (ii) Examine technical documentation of jurisdictional rules and regulations accordance with the PED. To achieve with respect to design and manufactur- which aim to eliminate or mitigate the this, the following parameters needed ing procedures potential dangers and risks associated to be known or determined: (iii) Assess materials with pressure equipment with a maxi- 1. The nature of the fluid i.e. gas or (iv) Verify material manufacturers mum allowable pressure greater than liquid. certificates 0,5bar(g). This is achieved by mandat- 2. The hazard group of the fluid, which (v) Approve procedures for permanent ing that manufacturers, suppliers and could be either Group 1 or Group 2. joining of parts importers of pressure equipment for Group 1 is used for fluids which are (vi) Verify joining and non-destructive use in the EU adhere to the regula- classified as dangerous, whilst Group examination (NDE) personnel are quali- tions, essential safety requirements 2 is used for all other fluids. In terms fied or approved (ESR’s), hazard categorisation and of PED 2014/68/EU steam is classified (vii) Perform appropriate tests during conformity assessment modules set under Group 2. manufacture forth in the PED. 3. Steam generator design pressure (viii) Perform final inspection and proof Compliance with all applicable re- and volume. tests as per ESR’s quirements bestows on the manufac- The steam generator hazard/risk (ix) Examine safety devices turer the right to affix the CE marking category was found to be Category IV (x) Ensure identification number is af- to the pressure equipment. pressure equipment. fixed to pressure equipment John Thompson took the follow- Step 4: Select the appropriate con- (xi) Draw up a certificate of compliance ing steps to meet the customer’s formity assessment module for tests carried out requirements. The knowledge gained in Step 3 In accordance with the require- Step 1: Perform a risk assessment was used in Step 4, which was to de- ments of Module G, the following The first step a manufacturer has termine the applicable conformity as- technical documentation was supplied to perform to meet the requirements sessment module in order to establish by John Thompson to the NoBo for ap- of PED 2014/68/EU is to conduct a risk the scope of the Notified Body (NoBo) proval and verification: assessment of the pressure equip- involvement and the level of technical a) Record/results of the analysis and ment in question. This process aims to documentation required. assessment of risks (manufacturer) identify and analyse potential hazards The NoBo is an inspection body b) General description of the product as a result of the equipment pressure, which acts independently of the c) Product general assembly drawings, design and build. A typical risk as- pressure equipment manufacturer to component drawings, equipment lists sessment for a John Thompson steam ensure that pressure equipment is To page 10 generator includes consideration of the potential loadings, the mode of operation, the possible failure modes and any foreseeable misuse. Step 2: Demonstrate solutions adopted to comply with the ESR’s In addition to identifying and ana- lysing the risks, John Thompson had to illustrate that design solutions had been adopted in order to eliminate or reduce the hazards, show that appro- priate protection measures had been implemented against the hazards and that users were informed of all residual hazards. This was achieved by tabulating the adopted solutions against the ESR’s as listed in the PED. The ESR’s John The EU’s distinctive CE Marking at the bottom of the above nameplate for the customised steam Thompson had to comply with included generator manufactured by John Thompson for a new processing plant in Ghana attests to the high design, manufacturing, materials, quality of the product. 9 What’s Watt June 2017 Power

From page 9 and piping and instrumentation dia- l) Inspection documentation for base Upon completion of all design, grams (P&ID’s) materials, consumables and bolting manufacturing, inspection and test- d) Details of design codes or standards m) Procedures for assuring material ing procedures, and after verification applied traceability of conformity, John Thompson could e) Evidence of compliance with materi- n) Reports of defects/deviations issue an EU declaration of conformity als specifications of the PED arising from manufacture, including with PED 2014/68/EU and affix the CE f) EC or EU Declarations of Conformity concessions marking to the steam generator. for all purchased items of pressure o) Details of manufacturers quality The CE marking ensures that the equipment management system certification steam generator has freedom of move- g) Results of tests and inspections p) Information on items sub-contracted ment within the EU. The EU declaration during manufacture and what controls are in place of conformity must comply with the h) Evidence of qualification of perma- q) Any other additional supporting PED and be approved by the NoBo. nent joining personnel documentation The award of the CE marking opens i) Evidence of qualification of perma- r) Operating and maintenance in- up a wide range of opportunities for nent joining procedures structions, including relevant safety John Thompson in the export market. j) Evidence of qualification of NDE information By Jacques Matolla personnel Step 5: CE marking and EU declara- Engineering Manager: Package Boilers k) NDE test reports tion of conformity John Thompson

John Thompson successful in a bid for a package boiler for an edible oil refinery in Ghana John Thompson recently won a con- de-aerator, a dual light/heavy oil ring Marking. “Obtaining this important tract from a Europe-based interna- main pumping system, ducting and a quality certification offers the signifi- tional company for the manufacture stack, with provision being made to cant benefit of helping to open the way and supply of an Enviropac package accommodate an economiser to be to new business opportunities for John boiler for installation in a greenfields supplied and installed at a later date Thompson boilers in Europe and for edible oil refinery being established should it be required. use in plants operating in other parts in Ghana. The boiler and ancillary equipment of the world that are owned and oper- The plant is being set up in the port have been designed and manufactured ated by Europe-based companies, as city of Tema to refine shea olein from to conform to the latest European applies in the present case,” Simon locally grown trees. Shea olein is used Pressure Equipment Directive commented. for numerous applications in food and 2014/68/EU and will be cosmetics. stamped with the CE Enviropac boilers are designed for firing by a variety of fuels. “In addition to having the capability of being fired by oil and gas, it can be fired by bio- fuels, including shea olein. The boiler, to be installed as part of the refining process in the plant, will mainly be fired by local heavy oil, but has the specialist equipment to fire shea olein produced in the plant,” explained Simon Boiskin, John Thompson’s Export Sales Manager, Package Boilers. The division was awarded the con- tract in November last year for delivery in June this year. The boiler, which will operate at 12t/h 10,4bar(g), is to be installed by the client under supervi- sion by John Thompson technicians for commissioning in the last quarter of this year. The burner supplier for the pro- ject has developed a special valve assembly to enable shea olein firing of the boiler. Ancillary equipment to John Thompson’s versatile Enviropac package boiler. The division has manufactured a 12t/h unit be manufactured and supplied with modified to accommodate use of shea olein oil as one among several types of fuels that will be used to the boiler includes an atmospheric fire it in its application as part of a new shea olein oil refinery currently underonstruction c in Ghana. What’s Watt June 2017 10 Power Power Conversion

Air Pollution Control completes filtration upgrade at PPC plant Leading cement producers PPC Ltd induced draft (ID) fan for the baghouse “This fan’s function is heat recov- commissioned John Thompson Air comprising a 2700mm diameter aero- ery, as it takes the hot off-gas from Pollution Control to upgrade the foil impeller driven by a motor in excess the kiln for re-use in the production dust collection system serving one of 1MW, as well as materials handling process. It is designed to withstand of the main production lines at PPC’s equipment consisting of drag chains high dust loads and temperatures and Dwaalboom plant near Thabazimbi and rotary valves discharging the col- is made of exceptionally wear-resistant in Limpopo Province. lected dust into an existing product material due to the highly abrasive ma- The turnkey contract, worth in ex- conveyor. terial it will be exposed to,” explained cess of R30-million, was awarded to TLT ACTOM, which John Thompson James Sole, TLT ACTOM’s Sales John Thompson APC in May 2016 and APC sub-contracted to produce the Engineer, Industrial & Process Fans. completed in March 2017. The contract baghouse fan assembly, was also With a diameter of 3600mm, it involved retrofitting the original electro- commissioned as part of its scope of is one of the largest fans used in an static precipitator (ESP) system for the work under the contract to design and industrial application, driven by a large plant’s Kiln No.1 with a reverse-pulse manufacture a customised kiln ID fan. motor in excess of 2MW. filtration system deploying tubular bags to maintain dust emissions below 20mg/m3. “The new system represents a substantial upgrade on its predecessor. The lower emission levels it maintains is to meet stricter environmental regu- lations which have come into effect,” commented Raymond Hopkins, John Thompson APC’s Project Manager on the contract. The pulse-jet conversion, erected on the roof of the former ESP system, contains over 3600 tubular filter bags with a total air-moving capacity in ex- cess of 500 000m3/h. The baghouse is fitted with glass-fibre tubular bags capable of withstanding temperatures of up to 260 degrees C. The contract also incorporated the A bird’s eye view of the reverse-pulse ESP conversion provided and installed recently by John design and manufacture of a centrifugal Thompson APC at PPC’s Dwaalboom cement factory near Thabazimbi.

Electrical Machines notes higher attendance at the 2017 US scrap recycling expo Electrical Machines, as the principal in late-April, with the host city this year Motor Service (AIMS), its long-stand- manufacturer and supplier of large being New Orleans. ing North American distributor and motors to the US metal shredders Following its decision to display repair partner, did so again this time market, again participated as an its manufacturing capabilities and round. In the picture Paul Cuthbert exhibitor at the annual convention services on a double stand at last (right), Divisional CEO of the Power and expo of the Institute of Scrap year’s show, which proved to be an Conversion division, is seen with a Recycling Industries’ (ISRI) this year. extra drawcard, Electrical Machines customer on the stand. The event was held over three days and co-exhibitor American Industrial Antonio Teixeira, Electrical Machines’ General Manager, said the show was better attended this year than in 2016. “This indicates that the steel market as a whole is showing a small improvement from the low level of a year ago. Most customers and visitors we spoke to at the show were cautiously optimistic about future prospects,” he commented. Shredder motors are among the largest motors produced by Electrical Machines and its sales into the US shredder market represent an impor- tant part of its manufacturing mix.

11 What’s Watt June 2017 Power Conversion Engineering Projects & Contracts

Electrical Machines opens branch in Richards Bay In a move aimed at strengthening its our Durban branch. Setting up a branch Antonio added that the branch ties with its customers in Richards in the town enables us to respond to will draw stock mainly from Electrical Bay, Electrical Machines has opened our customers’ needs more effectively Machines’ main Benoni facility, with a branch there. and speedily,” said Antonio Teixeira, Durban branch providing backup when The branch, opened on February 1, Electrical Machines’ General Manager. speedier deliveries and services are is managed by Grant Toms, a former The branch stocks all the types of required. Technical Sales Representative, with low voltage motors and gearboxes The branch’s physical address and Vivek Ramdhani, Sales Administrator, supplied by Electrical Machines, while contact details are: Unit 1, 13 Bronze also based at the new branch. its services include providing minor Bar Road, Alton. Tel: (087) 365-0237, “Up until now we have been servic- modifications to the equipment it sup- Cell: (Grant Toms) 084-408-6114, ing our Richards Bay customers from plies, plus a delivery service. E-mail: [email protected]

Static Power’s modular UPS system In 2015 Static Power embarked upon variation can be -25% of 400V and an initiative to develop a modular +25% of 400V AC with an AC output UPS system that could be N+1 voltage limit of -15% and +10% of structure in one panel. This would 230V AC. enable customers to purchase one • The UPS must be able to operate UPS that had redundancy built into into a short circuit and recover. the rectifier and inverter sections by • The DC bus-bar voltage had to using hot-swappable modules. This operate at a safe 110V DC and utilise removes the need to have two UPS nickel cadmium or lead acid battery systems operating in a redundant technologies. mode. • The UPS system must provide an The brief established for the AC analyser function to monitor all AC Modular UPS system defined was met input and output phase parameters with the following features: and provide time-stamped wave-shape • Clean, uninterrupted 5kva 230V history for fault analysis purposes. single phase load AC for 1 hour. • To date 20 systems have been • Modular rectifier and inverter mod- manufactured and are operating suc- ules that can be swopped out without cessfully in harsh power generation shutting down the system. environments. • The unit to meet IEC 60146 and Future business SANS 1652 (of which all type tests passed). Further development of the 230V • If the rectifier and/or inverter control AC single phase output systems has module fails, the rectifier and inverter resulted in AC Power solutions up power modules must continue to oper- to 100KVA and three-phase output ate and supply output power with no systems of up to 300KVA, all with interruption. A history log of 500 events Static Power’s industrial modular UPS the same features as listed.The main is also available. advantage of this system is that • Operate in extreme electrical noise the system must continue to operate increased AC power outputs can be interference environment without pro- normally. If two AC input phases fail provided with various rectifier current ducing any “dirty AC”. If one input AC (<70% nominal ac), then the system outputs, merely by adding modules. phase fails (<70% nominal ac), then must shut down. The AC input voltage

Signalling completes Kaserne and Springs yards in current rail yards upgrade contract for Transnet Signalling recently completed the The upgrading of the controls sys- which is valued at over R200-million, Kaserne and Springs shunting yard tems for Kaserne yard in Johannesburg, are Bayhead in Durban, with four local portions of its current rail yards up- which is the largest yard in the contract control areas, Vryheid (five) in northern grade contract for Transnet. with 10 local control areas, and Springs Kwazulu-Natal, Witbank (four), Belfast, The contract to install semi-auto- yard on the East Rand, containing three (two) Nelspruit (two), Komatipoort (six) mated control systems in rail yards local control areas, were completed and Oosbank (two) in Mpumalanga, around the country to replace existing and put into service at the end of Phalaborwa (two) and Thabazimbi manually-operated mechanical sys- November 2016. (three) in Limpopo and Rustenburg tems covers a total of 12 yards. The other yards in the contract, (two) in North-West Province.

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The contract is the second yard controls upgrade contract Transnet has awarded to Signalling, which com- pleted the first at the end of 2014. The earlier contract was of similar value and covered a similar number of yards for upgrade as the present contract.

Local control panel with associated product as installed at the Kaserne yard in Johannesburg. High Voltage Equipment develops dual-voltage VT’s A move by several major metropoli- facilitate the transition at minimal conversion to the higher voltage level tan municipalities, among others, cost to users. of 132kV has been completed,” ex- towards raising the transmission “The conversions due to be imple- plained Etienne Venter, the division’s voltage for substations from 88kV mented by various electrical authorities Design Engineer. to 132kV has prompted High Voltage will involve a process whereby substa- “Consequently if an 88 kV substa- Equipment to develop a dual-volt- tions that are to be converted need to tion is to be converted into a 132kV age voltage transformer (VT) to operate at 88kV for a period until the facility, it requires replacing the exist- ing 88kV VT’s with 132kV units. We have overcome this stumbling block by developing the new dual-voltage VT, which provides for a seamless changeover from the lower to the high- er voltage without the customer hav- ing to incur the extra cost of replacing existing units with higher rated ones.” A number of the new VT’s are to be installed in the 88kV/11kV Roosevelt Park substation currently being extended and refurbished in the Johannesburg suburb of that name by Midrand-based substation contractors F&J Electrical. The company placed an order with High Voltage Equipment in January this year for six units, along with 21 x 132kV current transformers, for the project. Design of the new VT commenced late last year. “What enabled us to develop it as speedily as we have is that the bulk of the design was based on the already proven design of the 132kV compact VT we developed and introduced into the market in 2015,” said Etienne. “This meant that most of the com- ponents had already been tested, so only a limited number of components in the dual-voltage unit needed to put through the full battery of tests nor- Etienne Venter, High Voltage Equipment’s Design Engineer, and (from left) Andries Modime, Assistant mally required on a newly-designed HV Tester; Clarence Tsire, HV Tester; and Silas Risimati, Team Leader, VT Winding Section, with the product.” prototype of the new dual-voltage VT now in production. 13 What’s Watt June 2017 Medium Voltage & Protection

MV Switchgear’s new effluent treatment plant brings multiple benefits MV Switchgear recently replaced Switchgear’s Procurement Manager. considerable cost-savings as a result of its old effluent treatment plant. The “Our production operations con- the much lower fresh water consump- new, modern, fully-automated plant sume 3,5-million litres of water per tion,” Ulrich added. recycles most of the water used in month. Now with the new plant in The new effluent treatment plant MV Switchgear’s production opera- operation, instead of all this going to occupies an area of 186m2 outside the tions for re-use, thereby minimising waste and us having to use fresh water factory building. It incorporates two 14 the business unit’s consumption of at considerable cost to replace it, we 000 litre and two 7 000 litre sump tanks fresh water and saving costs. now conserve almost 2-million litres to hold four separate waste streams The new plant, which the busi- for re-use. In addition, the small portion piped from MV Switchgear’s two main ness unit embarked on establishing in of non-recyclable waste water that we production plants, the powder-coating late-2015, has been in operation since have to dispose of will be re-used for plant and the plating plant. October last year. flushing of some of the toilets on the “Concentrated acid and diluted “The old effluent treatment plant, Knights site. acid, called acid rinse, are collected in which had been operating for over 30 ”The amount of water from our two of the sump tanks and concen- years, didn’t recycle any waste water factory that is being dumped into trated alkali and alkali rinse go into the from our factory for re-use – its sole the municipal sewerage system is other two tanks,” Ulrich explained. purpose was to ensure that effluent therefore a fraction of what it used The contents of the concentrate released into the drainage system con- to be. In addition to the significant tanks are fed into their respective formed to the regulations applicable environmental benefits the new treat- rinse tanks to be diluted and in turn to waste water,” said Ulrich Behr, MV ment plant offers, we are also achieving the contents of the rinse tanks, after pre-treatment, overflow into a 7 000 litre neutralisation tank in which the neutralisation process is augmented by the addition of chemicals to adjust the PH to the correct level. The mixture is then passed through a clarifier where a flocculent is added to separate the solids out, after which it is further purified via a charcoal filter and a de-ionising process and ends up in a large 20 000 litre holding tank. It is from this tank that the water is pumped back to the factory for re-use. The construction of the new plant, designed by a local water treatment company, necessitated substantial excavations for the various treatment tanks and for laying of pipes to carry Procurement Manager Ulrich Behr and Maintenance Foreman Richard Mdhluli in MV Switchgear’s new the waste streams from the production automated effluent treatment plant. plants to the treatment plant.

Protection & Control upgrades Isibonelo dragline’s electrical protection system When Protection & Control (P&C) business units sub-contracted by Protection system, which can detect was commissioned to upgrade the Reid & Mitchell as the main contrac- an internal flash on the switchboard protection system for the damaged tor assigned to repair and replace the and act thereupon within 10ms from dragline that was repaired and re- dragline’s electrical equipment that the initiation of the arc, thus preventing furbished recently for Anglo Coal’s had been damaged or destroyed in switchboard damage and a prolonged Isibonelo opencast coal mine near an accident at the mine in December outage. In addition, on the motor feed- Kriel in Mpumalanga, it took the op- last year. (See full story of the repair ers the customer wanted to make use portunity to apply the latest protec- & refurbishment project on Pg 18). of the same equipment as was used tion technologies on offer by Arcteq Under its subcontract P&C was before for a seamless integration into of Finland, its new international commissioned to upgrade the protec- their process SCADA. protection partner. tion equipment serving the dragline’s P&C proposed the use of the Arcteq and another international incomers, transformer feeders, bus ARCTEQ AQ200 platform protection automation systems company, US- section and motors. IED’s for its ability to combine an inte- based NovaTech, were signed on as To further enhance the protection of grated and standalone ARC Protection new principals of P&C in late-2015 and the primary plant and the switchboard, Scheme on the same equipment, as early-2016 respectively. the requirement from the customer well as the significant enhancements P&C was one of several ACTOM included the installation of an ARC it offered on the previously installed

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protection IED’s. the additional feedback and control pos- customer to keep a single hardware The system P&C has provided is sible with the integrated HMI screen. platform as a spare item and provides ideally suited for this purpose. “Arc The AQ-F213 protection IED’s imple- him with an easy upgrade path on the protection is seamlessly integrated mented all use standard hardware, IED’s should his future requirements with the Arcteq IED’s, while standalone with the various applications enabled change,” Marius concluded. arc protection has been installed in via a software selection. This allows the panels where Arcteq IED’s are not employed. The availability of this two- in-one combination from Arcteq for the bulk of the replacement equipment required, provided us the flexibility to comply with the customer’s needs,” commented Marius van Rensburg, P&C’s Sales Manager. The Arcteq F213 protection IED’s are equipped with current and voltage inputs, integrated arc protection, IEC 61850, full HMI and bay control capa- The Arcteq AQ 100 and bility and expandable IO. In addition, AQ 200 Protection IED’s the hardware, protection and commu- which formed an integral nication functions on the IED’s can be part of the protection enabled via a software selection. solution for the Isibonelo “The customer was excited about Mine dragline.

P&C signs distributorship agreement with leading global instruments supplier Protection & Control has extended struments P&C is now able to supply enable us to offer one-stop solutions to its metering and measurements into the local market as a result of the our customers in key areas of metering solution portfolio through signing technology tie-up, which was finalised and measurements respectively,” said a distributorship agreement with in May this year, are transducers and Leon de Nysschen, P&C’s Electricity leading international electrical a range of precision meters designed Metering Manager. measurements instruments manu- to be integrated directly into protection CEWE’s DPT range of transducers facturer CEWE Instrument AB of systems. are world-class proven instruments that Sweden. “Both of these offerings are firsts now enable P&C to provide measure- Among the new categories of in- for us and are important additions that ments capabilities in addition to its existing widely acknowledged high quality offerings and capabilities to industrial users of metering systems in the Southern African region. “With transducers being brought on board as an addition to our portfolio we are in a position to cater to both the metering and measurements requirements of the market,” Leon commented. The other key product range from CEWE are precision Class 0.2 energy meters which implement the IEC 61850 protection protocol. “We have success- fully tested some of these meters in conjunction with the OrionLX Gateway from our US substation automation technology partner NovaTech to satisfy ourselves about their mutual compat- ibility,” said Marius van Rensburg, P&C’s Sales Manager. The other CEWE products now on offer in the local market via P&C are Faisal Hoosen (left), P&C’s General Manager, and Rajnesh Kher, General Manager of CEWE Instrument state-of-the-art digital and mechanical AB, sign the distributorship agreement, while Leon de Nysschen, P&C’s Electricity Metering Manager, panel instruments. and Ravi Bhardwaj, CEWE’s Business Development Manager, look on.

15 What’s Watt June 2017 Distribution Transformers LH Marthinusen

Distribution Transformers’ awarded interim Eskom contract Distribution Transformers was re- transformers contract, valued at to October 2017 and comprises ap- cently awarded 43% of the Eskom R170-million. proximately 5 000 units, ranging from national interim distribution The contract will run from April 2017 16kVA 11kV units through to 500kVA 22kV units. The units are to be manufactured according to a new design, with the focus on producing extra low loss transformers, stemming from Eskom’s requirement to reduce their environ- mental impact. “This poses a challenge to manu- facturers, as a balance needs to be found between the high-grade materi- als required for the very low losses and the high costs thereof,” com- mented Alan Buchholtz, Distribution Transformers’ Divisional CEO. Distribution Transformers manufac- tured prototypes in accordance with the new designs for special, type and routine testing. The division partici- pated in a design review of the new units with Eskom in March, prior to commencing delivery in April. Over the years Distribution Transformers has had the lion’s share of Eskom’s distribution transformers Distribution Transformers factory workers are seen above tanking 64kVA 22kV low-loss transformers as contracts owing to the quality, reliability part of the new interim distribution transformers contract for Eskom. and competitive pricing of its products. LH Marthinusen again rises to challenge of manufacturing urgently required transformers LH Marthinusen’s Transformers divi- because the restricted time frame for long ceased operating and the original sion has repeatedly demonstrated completion of the job precludes the design drawings for the transformer in its expertise in the design and alternative – and usually more expen- question are unavailable,” he explained. manufacture of many different types sive – option for the customer to get a Despite these difficulties the divi- of transformers – including highly replacement unit manufactured by the sion invariably completes and delivers specialised and complex units. OEM abroad, or because the OEM has the required transformers exactly to This capability is further enhanced by its ability to manufacture transform- ers within tight time constraints. Such projects have won the division a well-deserved reputation in the mar- ket. In many instances the challenge is further complicated due to the required transformers having to be designed and manufactured by a reverse engineer- ing process, which both adds to the technical challenges involved and plac- es further time constraints in terms of meeting the tight completion deadlines that are frequently set for such projects. “The deadlines are often very tight due to us having to produce a transformer under emergency condi- tions, such as providing a unit to re- place one that has failed,” said Wikus Williams, LHM’s Technical Executive, Transformers. “We are also often called upon to LHM Transformers division technicians Nkosinathi Mpande (left) and Siphesihle Mabaso apply finishing apply reverse engineering techniques touches to the rectifier transformer for Burnstone Mine. What’s Watt June 2017 16 LH Marthinusen

spec and on time in accordance with set for completion of the work were formers for Kloof Mine were required customers’ requirements. tight. It was especially tight in the case for transfer of power from one mine Two recent examples were the of Burnstone Mine, as LHM was given shaft to another via a 6km power line manufacture of a specialised 2,5MVA only three weeks to manufacture and that had been installed between the rectifier transformer for Sabanya Gold’s deliver the new unit, while its techni- two shafts after the normal power Burnstone underground gold mine cal complexity also posed a challenge. supply to one of the shafts had failed. near Standerton in Mpumalanga in The 11kV/6,9kV rectifier transformer LHM commenced the contract at September last year and the manu- was required for the supply of power the beginning of November last year facture of two 10MVA distribution to a variable speed drive deployed for and completed it within six weeks to transformers for Kloof underground pumping water out of the mine. meet the mid-December deadline to gold mine – also owned by Sabanya The project was completed on get the alternative power supply sys- Gold – in Westonaria, Gauteng, at the schedule at the beginning of October tem operational before the mine’s year- end of last year. last year. end close-down for the festive season. In both contracts the time-frames The 22kV/6,6kV distribution trans- LH Marthinusen signs deal with leading pump repair company to extend business into Angola LH Marthinusen has signed an agreement to set up an electric mo- tor repair workshop on the premises of a pump company in Angola that services the international offshore oil & gas (O&G) industry. The US-owned company, Equipment & Controls (E&C), has well-established bases in Soyo and Cabinda – both major O&G service hubs in Northern Angola. The agreement provides LHM with direct representation in Angola with a view to providing repair services in Johannesburg for large electrical rotat- ing equipment deployed by most of E&C’s customers. “Our representation at E&C’s service hub in Soyo, the first to be established by an ACTOM division in Angola, is also a potential springboard for other group divisions to obtain new business in the country,” commented David Sullivan, LHM’s Divisional CEO. However LHM does not have direct presence there. “The motor repair workshop established on E&C’s prem- ises is owned and operated by E&C, while our role is to provide the intellec- tual property and equipment required for it to operate,” David explained. “In addition, we have undertaken as part of the agreement to train the workshop staff to equip them with the skills to perform the work.” Semi-skilled staff will receive An offshore rig owned by ESSO Exploration (ExxonMobil), with which LHM has a maintenance contract. hands-on training on site, while two workshop. equipment to replace aging or faulty artisans are attending a three-month The need for an electric motors machines, but many now have their training course at LHM’s training centre repair workshop to be established existing equipment repaired to save at its Denver repair facility from May to on E&C’s premises follows the sharp costs. Consequently the demand for July this year. decline in the crude oil price world- repair services is on the rise and we Chris Dart, former General Manager wide in 2014, which caused a severe have the opportunity to change their of LHM’s Phalaborwa facility, has been slump in the O&G industry. “Previously mind-set towards repairs for the long appointed by E&C as Manager of the most O&G companies purchased new term,” said David. 17 What’s Watt June 2017 Reid & Mitchell

ACTOM divisions pool resources to refurbish dragline’s electrical systems in record time A major project in which a number of ACTOM divisions and business units worked in close cooperation in repairing, replacing and re-manu- facturing a wide variety of electrical equipment and components to re- furbish a severely damaged dragline within a tight time-frame was suc- cessfully completed on schedule in early-April this year. The project was conducted by Reid & Mitchell as the main contrac- tor assigned by Anglo Coal to restore the dragline’s electrical equipment to working order after much of it had been damaged or destroyed in a fire that occurred at the Isibonelo opencast coal mine near Kriel in Mpumalanga in December last year. The R60-million contract, awarded to R&M in late-December, required that the equipment be refurbished and returned to site for assembly and R&M Fitter George Kraft brazes an end ring on one of the dragline’s synchronous motors. installation on the Marion 8200 dragline within three months – an extremely fact that many key components had to with the municipality to restore our stringent lead time for such a large and be procured from abroad. “In this we main power supply,” Mike remarked. complex project. were hampered by having to obtain R&M’s overall management of “The project was complicated by them during the festive season, when the project was conducted with the large portions of the work having to many of our usual contacts at the com- precision of a military operation, with be subcontracted to various specialist panies concerned were on leave. This a special “war-room” being set up at businesses to execute. However, this necessitated having to make special the division’s Benoni premises, where was mitigated by the fact that divi- arrangements in some instances to ob- the senior personnel charged with co- sions within ACTOM have the required tain the items we needed,” Mike said. ordinating all aspects of the operation expertise and so were engaged as could keep close track of progress on Complications subcontractors for all the major tasks an ongoing basis. involved,” said Mike Shaw, R&M’s Unusually high rainfall during much “We made the war-room as visual Divisional CEO. of the contract period complicated mat- as possible, with bar-charts on the walls “Having all the key players within ters further, as trucks collecting equip- that were constantly updated to show the group greatly assisted us in manag- ment for repair experienced difficulty progress on all aspects of the project ing and co-ordinating the project as ef- negotiating the flooded earth roads on at any given time,” explained Rene ficiently as possible, particularly in view the mine’s property. “In addition, the Rajzman, R&M’s Works Executive, of the extremely tight time constraints main substation supplying power to who was responsible for managing the that applied,” he added. R&M was vandalised at the beginning project, assisted by Francois van der The difficulties of meeting the dead- of February, forcing us to use backup Westhuizen, the division’s Project & line were further compounded by the generators for a time while we arranged Production Planner. “The war-room also served a vital role in facilitating regular communication between ourselves and the customer throughout the duration of the project. Senior personnel of Anglo Coal and Isibonelo frequently visited the work- shop to monitor progress,” Rene said. In addition to overseeing the total project, R&M was assigned all refur- bishment work relating to the rotating equipment that needed to be repaired or replaced. It was also responsible for pedestal and bearing maintenance, slip-ring refurbishment and oil pump refurbishment, among others. The main equipment handled by MV Switchgear technicians conduct factory acceptance tests on the new 6,6kV distribution board for the R&M consisted of a total of 41 items dragline. forming part of three 2300kW motor What’s Watt June 2017 18 Reid & Mitchell Marthinusen & Coutts

generator sets – comprising eight gen- which designed, produced and pro- The main protection system supplied erators in each set – and 18 x 750kW cured new medium voltage switch- by P&C in conjunction with its new inter- mill motors. gear to replace the dragline’s original national protection and automation tech- switchgear. nology partner Arcteq of Finland was Record production levels • Protection & Control (P&C), which the most innovative of the upgrades “The project pushed our facilities to was responsible for replacing the dra- performed within the scope of the elec- new levels of production and a total of 150 gline’s original protection systems with trical equipment refurbishment project. fulltime staff, representing 70% of our more advanced state-of-the-art systems. The new protection system incorpo- workforce, were assigned exclusively MV Switchgear/WPI and P&C were rates a significantly more advanced and to the project. We also hired and trained also assigned as part of their respective versatile intelligent electronic device 10 semi-skilled workers on a temporary briefs to make substantial upgrades to (IED) than the system it has replaced. basis and introduced shift-work to keep the systems for which they were re- It not only extended the scope of pace with the workload,” said Rene. sponsible, incorporating innovations in protection provided but also provided Three other ACTOM divisions both cases. The original 6,6kV switch- cost-savings for the customer. (For a played leading roles as subcontractors. gear was replaced by a modern air- detailed description of P&C’s solu- They were: insulated system which was specially tion, see story on Pg 14). • LH Marthinusen, which undertook designed and manufactured by MV Mike Shaw of R&M commented: all the repairs and refurbishment re- Switchgear to fit the restricted space “The successful implementation of the quired on the dragline’s transformers that had been occupied by the former whole project in accordance with the and white metal bearings. panel, while the 22kV switchgear panel extremely tight schedule confirmed • MV Switchgear and its recently- was replaced by a gas-insulated switch- R&M’s ability to manage major com- acquired partner WPI Power Solutions, gear (GIS) system. plex projects.”

M&C successfully completes Africa’s largest rotor pole refurbishment In probably the largest repair of this nature in Africa, Marthinusen & Coutts (M&C) recently refurbished 11 of the full set of 14 rotor poles of Motor Generator Unit 3 at Eskom’s Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme on the Drakensberg escarpment. The rotor poles were extensively damaged during a fault condition at the station, and the return to service of the unit was of national importance. Working closely with stakehold- ers, an extensive local programme of testing, dismantling, inspection and repair was conducted by M&C within extremely tight time frames to accom- modate the criticality of the project. A technical audit confirmed that facilities at both M&C’s 8 000m² main workshop at Cleveland, Johannesburg, and its 12 000m² Benoni Power Generation division were indeed up to the daunting task. All 14 x 12t ro- tor poles were collected from Ingula M&C Armature Winder Keith van den Heever installs the insulated field coil onto the main coil pressing Pumped Storage Scheme and dis- and curing assembly of one of the Ingula motor generator rotor poles. patched to the Benoni works using tion tests. Extensive visual inspections manufactured. After the severity of M&C’s in-house transport. were also conducted. The test results the damage was determined, various It was vital that M&C determined were analysed, resulting in the decision techniques and repair concepts were not just the electrical status of the wind- to refurbish 11 of the 14 poles; two tabled and discussed in great detail. ings, but the health and physical integ- coils were accepted as healthy and the It was finally agreed that the coils be rity of each entire rotor pole (body and station owned a spare universal coil. stripped of their existing inter-turn coil). They were therefore subjected to To facilitate the grinding procedure insulation layers and the coils be rein- insulation resistance and inter-turn in- necessary to remove the support side sulated, heat cured using 2 500Amps, sulation tests, comprising both impulse brackets from the main rotor poles, including pressing at up to 1 000t, and and power frequency inter-turn insula- a customised heavy duty jig was To page 20 19 What’s Watt June 2017 Marthinusen & Coutts

From page 19 reassembled to the main poles. To ment of coils to the main poles. Other connectors. Weld scars were cleaned fast track the process, M&C prepared items included a 2 500Amp direct cur- and polished, and new insulation kits custom parallel operations at their two rent controlled rectifier to assist with were supplied and fitted. facilities; separating the dirty and clean the curing cycle, heavy duty turning In the final assembly and test stage, processes with full clean conditions rigs, lifting assemblies, and a magnetic M&C repaired the existing support areas for the critical pressing and heat link for inter-turn insulation testing. brackets to “as-new” OEM specifica- curing processes. The scope of work included pyrolis- tion, and tested them to meet interna- Manufacturing the tools and equip- ing the coil insulation in a controlled tional standards. Coils were fitted to the ment for the work demanded M&C’s oven environment (300°C) and remov- rotor poles, and the coils sealed onto the substantial engineering and sourcing ing the existing insulation. The copper main poles. Finally, the finished rotor capacity. Among the items that needed stacks were cleaned and polished, new poles – with coils – were tested, crated to be custom-made were various ta- insulation was pressed and prepared, and transported back to Ingula by M&C bles and jigs to help move the coils in and all new insulation kits were manu- and Unit 3 is operating to full capacity. and out of the burn-out oven. A special factured with pre-impregnated Aramid The entire project was carried out rig to remove coils safely from the main paper. All pole coils were reinsulated under extreme pressure, in record coil body was built, as well as two and thermo-electrically cured with time, and according to all the OEM heavy duty consolidation rigs, with a 1 000t consolidation pressure, after specifications and requirements for set of 1 000t hydraulic jacks and their which they were cleaned and tested. new rotor poles. dedicated power control unit. Work on the main pole bodies “This bears testimony to the depth M&C also designed and construct- included removing the existing insu- of our technical expertise and is an- ed a dimensionally accurate “dummy” lation, and checking and testing the other job well done by our team,” com- pole centre to help ensure correct fit- copper damper winding and series mented Richard Botton, M&C’s CEO. ACTOM Turbo Machines demonstrates electro- mechanical solutions capability ACTOM Turbo Machines demon- strated its ability to provide com- plete electro-mechanical solutions with the installation of 150MW turbo generator sets for a mine in the Donoso District, Republic of Panama. The turbo generator sets will power this new large open-pit copper mining operation. Securing what was the first inter- national contract to have been won by ACTOM Turbo Machines can be attributed in part to the longstanding relationship between Marthinusen & Coutts, and the customer, as well as its established track record of successes on previous projects for this mining company. It is also noteworthy that this contract was secured against tough ACTOM Turbo Machines technicians installing a 15t 150MW turbine rotor in the generator plant of a new international competition. open-pit copper mine in Panama. ACTOM Turbo Machines was con- compile the proposal, which resulted generator sets. tracted for the mechanical installation in Marthinusen & Coutts’ first interna- The tropical region’s high rainfall of two Skoda Doosan (Czeczh Republic) tional installation. and open building also placed extreme 150MW turbo generator sets, which ACTOM Turbo Machines was re- strain on the schedule. The turbo gener- each comprised an integrated high sponsible for the installation of the ators’ house was largely open, and only pressure and intermediate-pressure centreline of the turbo generator sets, equipped with a 40t overhead crane, turbine, a low pressure turbine, a which started with the inspection of the whereas the larger assemblies and Siemens generator, a radial condenser, civil works, followed by the systematic components, such as the HP-IP double and auxiliaries. assembly of the turbo generator’s in turbine and the LP turbine components Richard Botton, Marthinusen & the form of transportable components weighed 125t and 161t respectively. Coutts’s CEO as well as ACTOM Turbo and sub-assemblies. As the original ACTOM Turbo Machines made use Machines’ Managing Director, Chris equipment manufacturer (OEM) only of crawler cranes to install these larger Bezuidenhout and eventual Site supplied an installation quality control- components. Manager John Squire, took several ler, ACTOM Turbo Machines installation The remoteness of the site required trips to Panama to review the scope of crew’s expertise was pivotal to the ACTOM Turbo Machines to carefully work, drawings and site conditions to successful installation of the turbo plan and supply certain essential equip- What’s Watt June 2017 20 Marthinusen & Coutts Electrical Equipment

ment, such as highly specialised laser with in depth knowledge of rotating resources available on site and on time, leveling and alignment equipment. equipment, and the ability to perform as well as readily having the appropri- According to John Squire, ACTOM with high-precision in remote sites. ate people with the correct skill sets.” Turbo Machines’ Site Manager, pro- “All challenges were overcome by John concludes. jects like these require technical crews ensuring that we had the necessary Electrical Products receives first international orders for Relco clamps and wedges A new improved system of Relco ca- ble clamps and wedges successfully introduced by Electrical Products into the local market six years ago has found favour internationally. The system, for use in securing electrical cable lines in underground mines and for other industrial applica- tions, comprises lightweight moulded PVC compound wedges and galva- nised mild steel clamps, which are also more robust and easier to install than the cast-iron clamps and wedges previously produced and supplied by the business unit. The system is widely used in South Seen installed in a North American underground mine is one of 67 customised Relco clamp-and- African mines, while many have also wedge sets manufactured and supplied by Electrical Products recently. been supplied to mines in Zambia’s Copperbelt since their introduction into Accessories. “These orders represent an im- the market in 2011. The first order, for 67 clamp-and- portant breakthrough for us. Thyssen “The two recent orders we’ve re- wedge sets, was placed in January Mining’s placing of two orders in ceived for supply into North America, this year and delivered in mid-March succession confirms that the product both specially customised versions of to Salt Lake City, Utah, for installation has found acceptance in the global our standard range, were placed by in an underground mine in the US. The market in terms of quality, delivery Thyssen Mining, a reputable interna- larger second order, for 130 special and competitive pricing. This indicates tional underground mining contractor, sets, was placed in late-May and is that more orders are likely to follow which found them among the prod- scheduled for delivery at the end of July from this customer and possibly also ucts showcased on our website,” said to Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Canada, other companies catering to under- Russel Ramsden, Electrical Products’ for installation in an underground mine ground mines internationally,” Russel National Product Manager, Cables & in the area. commented. Steelpoort branch wins Electrical Products’ ‘Branch of the Year’ award A slick all-round performance by stock management, limiting bad debts, award – the fourth year in a row it has Steelpoort branch assured it victory low staff turnover and absenteeism achieved this distinction. in Electrical Products’ annual Branch and achieving B-BBEE requirements, Nelspruit branch hosted Electrical of the Year competition. among others,” said Rod Penaluna, Products’ annual conference and Despite being one of the smallest Electrical Products’ Divisional CEO. awards presentations, which took of the business unit’s 13 branches, it “This is what the Branch of the Year place in White River, Mpumalanga, in succeeded in winning the prized award competition is really about – which is mid-May. against all rivals, including the big city the best all-round performing branch. The winners of the other awards branches with their ability to generate “Irene Swanepoel has been doing that form part of the Branch of the Year high volumes. a great job as Manager of Steelpoort competition were: ”Steelpoort’s achievement is espe- branch and this award recognises what • Best Stores: Welkom branch. cially commendable because it doesn’t she and her team have succeeded in • Best Credit Control: Port Elizabeth enjoy any of the urban advantages, but doing in the very difficult circumstanc- branch. it has set an excellent example by at- es in which they operate, where they • Most Improved Branch: East tending to all the parameters on which face operational challenges on a regular London branch. the competition is based, including basis,” he commented. • Best Sales Team: Johannesburg market share and profit growth, effi- Pretoria branch was the winner branch. cient collection of payments due, good of the Branch of the Year Runner-Up 21 What’s Watt June 2017 Electrical Equipment

Electrical Products’ East London branch relocates

Electrical Products’ East London branch has relocated from the West Bank industrial area, where it was based for the past five years, to the busier and more centrally-situated business hub of Arcadia. The branch’s new premises, which it moved into at the end of November last year, is also bigger than the previ- ous site, with a 60% larger floor area of 950 m2. Most of the extra space is to be used to store additional stock of equipment and parts. “We are more accessible than previously to the majority of our cus- tomers and we also have better expo- sure to our market here,” commented Manager Braam Preston. The physical address of the new branch is 32 Dyer Street, Arcadia, and Braam Preston with Maureen Augustine. Internal Sales, and Lutho Botya, Sales Rep, in the reception the phone number is (043) 722-2396. area of East London branch’s new premises

Sasol Mining awards TLT ACTOM surface ventilation contracts for Twistdraai Colliery Sasol Mining has awarded two has awarded to the business unit Thubelisha main ventilation shaft, multi-million rand turnkey contracts since 2010. for which TLT ACTOM (then ACTOM in succession to TLT ACTOM for The first contract, awarded at the Mechanical Equipment) produced and axial flow main surface ventilation end of 2015, was completed recently, installed the initial fan system when fans to cater for expansions at its while the second, awarded in February the shaft was established in 2010 – that Twistdraai Colliery at Secunda, this year, is due for completion in being the first time the business unit Mpumalanga. October 2017. was awarded a vent fan contract by The contracts, worth a total of The completed contract was for Sasol Mining. R36-million, are the latest in a series of manufacture, supply and installation “In the initial contract for Thubelisha main vent fan contracts Sasol Mining of a third vent fan for Twistdraai’s main vent shaft, provision was made in the fan assembly to accommodate a third fan once the underground workings had expanded sufficiently to justify the extra ventilation required. This stage has been reached,” ex- plained Shaun Porobich, TLT ACTOM’s Manager, Projects. The third fan is identical to the oth- ers, being an axial flow fan with alu- minium impellers, having a diameter of 3750mm and a flow capacity of 360m3/ sec at 1650Pa pressure. It is powered by a 750kW motor. The fan assembly to be provided under the second contract is for Twistdraai’s new ventilation shaft, Rooipoort Shaft, that has been sunk on the property adjacent to Thubelisha Shaft. It comprises two fans with the same dimensions and air-moving Senior Sasol Mining and TLT ACTOM personnel who were present as part of the above group posing in capacity as the fans for Thubelisha, front of the vent shaft fan installation at Twistdraai’s Thubelisha Shaft upon its completion in mid- while also including a complete shaft 2016 are (third from left to sixth from left): Johan Nel, TLT ACTOM Safety Officer; Barnie Bester, Sasol top, with the contract encompassing Mining Project Manager; Craig Johnston, TLT ACTOM General Manager, and Willie Engelbrecht ,TLT installation of the full assembly, exclud- ACTOM Project Manager. ing civils. What’s Watt June 2017 22 Electrical Equipment ACTOM Energy

TLT ACTOM supplies smoke-extraction ventilation fans for new Loftus Park shopping centre TLT ACTOM recently supplied venti- system. “The jet fans direct the smoke low speed. Both fan types are rated for lation fans for installation in the new to the strategically located powerful temperatures of up to 300 degrees C Loftus Park shopping centre located axial flow fans which extract it from for two hours, in compliance with the close to the famous Loftus Versveld the building and release it into the applicable standard EN12101-3. rugby stadium in Arcadia, Pretoria. atmosphere,” Nuno said. TLT ACTOM, which was awarded The fans will provide ventilation on Each of the large fans has an air- the fans supply contract by the HVAC a day-to-day basis as well as providing moving capacity of 17,5m3/sec, while contractor responsible for installing the an efficient smoke clearing function in the capacity of each jet fan is 2,48m3/ fan systems, delivered them in April the event of a fire. sec at high speed and 1,32m3/sec at this year, as scheduled. The order comprises two categories of fans that operate in complementary fashion for maximum effectiveness in both applications – 28 large locally manufactured 1250mm diameter axial flow fans driven by 13,2kW motors and 46 smaller imported centrifugal induction jet fans driven by two-speed 0,61kW to 2,42kW dual-wound motors. “The two-speed jet fans perform the dual function of removing carbon monoxide fumes from the parkade on an ongoing basis in their low- speed mode and in high-speed mode for emergency smoke clearance in the event of a fire,” explained Nuno Pereira, TLT ACTOM’s Product Manager, HVAC Fans. In such an event both sets of fans are triggered into smoke clearance mode by smoke sensors, which also One of the two-speed centrifugal induction jet fans supplied by TLT ACTOM is shown above in set off the shopping centre’s fire alarm the parkade of the new Loftus Park shopping mall in Pretoria. ACTOM Energy repositions to provide complete solutions for the group Following the sharp drop in the price “ACTOM Energy’s front-end en- bishing and upgrading existing equip- of crude oil internationally in 2014, gineering and project management ment operating in small and medium which drove the oil & gas (O&G) capabilities are ideal for the develop- plants, including MV substations up industry into a prolonged slump, ment and provision of customised to 20MVA, Black start and emergency ACTOM Energy has had to look at solutions across a wide spectrum of power generation up to 20MW, hy- new markets. electro-mechanical sectors of industry. brid power generation, containerised ACTOM Energy, which was al- We have very strong in-house techni- and customised energy storage, fire ready operating as a solutions busi- cal capabilities in power automation, detection and prevention systems, ness in the O&G sector, was well- automation, control & instrumentation, package and watertube boilers balance positioned to support other ACTOM protection & control, power generation, of plants, turbine lubrication system divisions in terms of product and power fluid & motion and electrical in- fabrication and flushing, customised services integration. The division was stallations, including MV installations,” manufacturing of HPU’s, general plant officially positioned as the group’s he explained. process instrumentation and controls, solutions business with effect from ACTOM Energy is aimed mainly remote data logging, condition moni- April 1, 2017. at meeting the requirements of small toring and more. “We are able to provide custom- and medium projects in the R25- Alex Passetti, ACTOM Energy’s ers with optimal solutions through the million to R50-million capital cost per General Manager, said the division integration of an ACTOM wide range of project range. “We have identified has already formed cooperative part- locally manufactured products and ser- this category of projects as a missed nerships with several group divisions vices, including products from leading opportunity until recently due to our and business units to assist them in local and international technology part- group historically having been more broadening their scope of product and ners. We provide a support role to other focussed on much larger projects for service offerings in the market. These ACTOM divisions as a subsystems power utilities, IPP’s and the like,” he include John Thompson, Marthinusen integrator to ultimately provide custom- commented. & Coutts, LH Marthinusen, High ers with an ACTOM one-stop solution,” In addition to new capital projects, Voltage Equipment, MV Switchgear, said Christian Baret, ACTOM Energy’s ACTOM Energy is also addressing Electrical Machines, Electrical Products Divisional CEO. customers’ needs in terms of refur- To page 24 23 What’s Watt June 2017 ACTOM Energy General

From page 23 and Genlux Lighting. “We are currently involved in a total of seven projects with John Thompson, among which are provid- ing electrical balance of plant for a boiler plant in Zambia, development of an Island thermal power generation unit and development of a fire detec- tion and suppression system,” Alex remarked. Projects currently in progress with the other divisions within the group include: • Provision of a range of ancillary electrical systems for a power automa- tion project on which M&C is engaged. • Sourcing of control gear for a Star Delta switching unit which High Voltage Equipment is contracted to provide for a customer. • Partnering MV Switchgear on a pro- ject aimed at reducing installation and commissioning costs of switchgear installations in the Western Cape.

This “wheel” displays at a glance the group divisions ACTOM Energy is well-equipped to partner on joint projects to enable them to extend their product and service offerings to provide one-stop solutions to the various markets they serve.

TLT ACTOM finds solution to save jobs of staff of discontinued general fabrication unit Early last year TLT ACTOM was the last few years we were having to early this year to a 26% black woman faced with a dilemma. Its general consider closing it down, which meant owned fabrication service company, fabrication shop had shrunk to an retrenching most of the staff of 41 peo- which took on about half of the total unsustainable size as a result of ple,” commented Kgashane Mohale, staff complement. “The fabrication the adverse effect of the ongoing TLT ACTOM’s Executive Director. business continues to function as a economic downturn, mainly in the “However we went for the alter- unit, performing similar work as before. mining and minerals processing native option of putting the operation They continue to provide their service sectors. on the market, with the aim of saving to us as required, but with their new “In earlier years the demand for our the jobs and keeping all the staff em- owner’s assistance are finding new core product was sufficient to keep ployed,” he said. clients to provide similar services to.” this support operation viable, but over It was sold as a going concern Kgashane explained. Of the remaining staff who didn’t make the move, some continue to manufacture critical components at TLT ACTOM, some took early retirement or voluntary severance packages, while the rest were placed in other ACTOM divisions. “The transaction with the fabrica- tion service company was also struc- tured to leverage B-BBEE benefits, including contributing to the growth and advancement of black woman ownership in industrial companies,” Kgashane said. “We achieved our aim of reshaping our business for optimal performance, TLT ACTOM staff that were placed in other ACTOM divisions. with no one having to be laid off.” What’s Watt June 2017 24 General

Key appointments

David Sullivan has been appointed Janna Kapp has been appointed 1, 2016. He was formerly Technical Divisional CEO of LH Marthinusen with General Manager Designate of ACTOM Manager of the division. effect from March 1, 2017. He was for- Industry with effect from December 1, Rene Rajzman has been appointed merly Divisional COO of the division. 2016. He was formerly Senior Principal Works Executive of Reid & Mitchell Gerard Pretorius has been appointed Engineer, Electrical & Energy, of Anglo with effect from December 1, 2016. He General Manager of John Thompson Platinum. was formerly Business Development Air Pollution Control with effect from Alex Passetti, formerly General Manager of the division. February 1, 2017. He formerly was the Manager of Electrowave Cape, has Craig Smorenburg been appoint- Marketing & Sales Manager. been appointed to the new post of ed Projects & Engineering Services Suben Govender has been ap- General Manager of ACTOM Energy Executive of Marthinusen & Coutts pointed General Manager of John with effect from March 1, 2017. with effect from February 1, 2017. Thompson Operations with effect from Willie Liebenberg has been ap- Shawn Teixeira been appointed DC March 1, 2017. He was formerly Works pointed Technical Executive of Reid & Manager of Marthinusen & Coutts with Manager of the department. Mitchell with effect from December effect from March 1, 2017.

David Sullivan Gerard Pretorius Suben Govender Janna Kapp Alex Passetti

Willie Liebenberg Rene Rajzman Craig Smorenburg Shawn Teixeira Sy Gourrah elected Junior Vice President of SAIEE Sy Gourrah, Power Systems’ General Manager, was elected Junior Vice President of the SA Institute of Electrical Engineers at the Institute’s AGM at the end of March 2017. Sy, who has formerly been President of the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities (AMEU), has long been active in the SAIEE as a Fellow and Council Member. She is currently the chairperson of the Professional Development Committee and a member of the Education & Training Committee. She is also an active volunteer of the Sy Gourrah, Engineering Council of SA (ECSA). was elected As Junior Vice President of the SAIEE Junior Vice she will serve the body’s Executive President of Committee for the next four years until the SA Institute 2020, when she will be inaugurated as of Electrical President. Engineers. 25 What’s Watt June 2017 General

‘Best in Show’ Award for ACTOM T&D at African Utility Week ACTOM’s Transmission & and Current Electric’s 5kVA control is great to see so many utilities repre- Distribution (T&D) were awarded power auxiliary transformer. High sented at the exhibition.” the Best in Show Award for custom Voltage showcased a combined cur- stands at this year’s African Utility rent and voltage transformer display Week that took place at the Cape including a pole-mounted metering Town International Convention unit of up to 600A that can be manu- Centre in mid-May. factured up to 33kV. Other displays ACTOM’s participation included a included an amorphous core pole- 48m² exhibition at which they show- mounted transformer by Distribution cased a range of product offerings; Transformers and a 30V, 3A nickel cad- the presentation of papers by ACTOM mium battery trip unit by Static Power. management, as well as conducting a Martin Kelly, MV Switchgear’s broadcast interview. Divisional CEO, represented ACTOM Highlights of the exhibition in- during a broadcast interview and had cluded a live system demonstration of this to say about the event, “African Protection and Control’s new, innova- Utility Week is an ideal opportunity for tive solution for substation automation; ACTOM to interact with its custom- MV Switchgear’s RMV ring main unit ers from across the continent and it Wits electrical engineering First Year prize-winner thanks ACTOM for ‘generous sponsorship’ At the annual prize-giving ceremony The picture shows top-achieving for top-achieving students in Wits First Year student Thabang Mabula, University’s Faculty of Engineering who was a clear winner with a weight- and the Built Environment in 2016, ed aggregate score of 84,6%, being ACTOM again featured as a sponsor presented with the ACTOM-sponsored of one of the prizes, as it has done award by Prof Majozi. every year since 2009. After the presentation Thabang The group is the sponsor of the made a special request to his supervi- award – comprising a cash prize and sors to convey a message of gratitude an award certificate – for the top First to ACTOM for its generous sponsor- Year student in the School of Electrical ship of the prize. His message was & Information Engineering. The guest May this year, was Prof Thokozani sent to – and acknowledged by speaker and presenter of the awards at Majozi, Head of Wits’ School of – Andries Tshabalala, the group’s the ceremony, which was held in mid- Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering. Deputy Chairman. Reid & Mitchell helps launch new black-owned delivery company It was an easy decision for manage- who has proven himself a reliable driver services on a regular basis for almost 20 ment to choose a suitable candidate and collector/deliverer of mail and small years in his capacity as a driver employed to form part of Reid & Mitchell’s items of equipment between R&M and by QP Mail & Cleaning Services, which Enterprise & Supplier Development many of its customers. provides services to various ACTOM programme. “We were already very familiar with divisions,” said Sylvester Makamu, Their choice fell on Themba Zwane, his work, as we’d been making use of his R&M’s Divisional HR Manager. R&M subsequenty assisted Themba and his wife Nomvula to set Mike Shaw (right), up their own delivery company Thenom R&M’s Divisional as a new black-owned enterprise, CEO, congratulates which is based at R&M’s premises and Themba and Nomvula commenced operation in April this year. Zwane on starting their In addition to providing support own business as he to get the new business started, it hands over the keys assisted with the acquisition of the of their new delivery delivery vehicle required for collections bakkie, while Transport and deliveries. Manager Robert Maleka “We’d like to see them grow the (left) and Divisional business and hope that other group HR Manager Sylvester divisions will make use of Themba’s Makamu look on. services,” Sylvester commented. What’s Watt June 2017 26 General

Signalling long-service awards for 2016

Sharing the honours at Signalling’s 2016 long-service awards presenta- tion function in December last year were Trevor Davis, Operations Man- ager of Arnot Vibration Solutions, who topped the list with 35 years’ service, and Marc Bader, Unit Manager of Transport Equipment & Projects, with 20 years’ service. Nine other employees were pre- sented with long-service certificates by Peter Colborne, Signalling’s General Manager, for periods of service ranging from five to 15 years. Displaying their award certificates and trophies at the presentation function are (from left): Hilary The presentation function also Castle-Hartnick, Ewald Viljoen, Marc Bader, Cameron Martin, Christo Visagie, Martha Mabunda, Sipho included special presentations to em- Mtshali, Lethiwe Mpofu, Lammie Fick, Leone Moonsamy and Trevor Davis. ployees selected as having performed of the “Manufacturing Performer of the and Johanna Mahlangu. exceptionally well during the year. Year” award. The other long-service 10 years: Lammie Fick, Site Supervisor, was pre- awards recipients were: Ewald Viljoen, Martha Mabunda and sented with the “Signalling Employee of 15 years: Cameron Martin. the Year” award, and Lethiwe Mpofu, Conrad Lunderstedt, Hillary Castle- 5 years: Trainee Technician, was named winner Hartnick, Christo Visagie, Sipho Mtshali Leone Moonsamy. Johann Ellis receives 35-years’ long-service award The first presentation made by ment as Group CEO at the beginning a 35-years’ long-service award Mervyn Naidoo after his appoint- of March this year was to present to Group HR Executive Johann Ellis after he had reached this key career milestone in December last year. Johann joined the group when it was still part of the Barlow Rand group, spending his first 10 years in the post of Group HR Executive, Gold Division, for Rand Mines. In December 1991 he was appoint- ed to the position he has held for the subsequent 25 years to date, except that his designation changed slightly in the interim from Group HR Manager of the then GEC group. Frank Turner tops P&C’s 2016 long-service awards Eight Protection & Control staff- the dedication and loyalty of our staff making the company what it is today,” members were presented with members, who have played a part in said Faisal. long-service certificates by General Manager Faisal Hoosen in early- December last year. At the top of the list was Frank Turner, the business unit’s Quality Assurance Manager, who attained 35 years’ service with the group. The others, who received certif- icates for 15 years’ service, are: Samuel Dingane, Assembler; Frans Mashatula, Gully Box Foreman; Bafana Mnisi, Switchgear Assembly Foreman; Sylvester Ngobese, CNC Operator; Thomas Nhlapo, Stores Controller; Joe Martin Kelly (left), Medium Voltage & Protection’s Divisional CEO, and Faisal Hoosen (right), P&C’s Steyn, Technical Specialist: Protection; General Manager, pose with P&C’s recipients of long-service awards for 2016 (from left): Samuel and Philemon Xulu, Welding Operator. Dingane, Philemon Xulu, Bafana Mnisi, Thomas Nhlapo, Frans Mashatula, Joe Steyn, Frank Turner and “We are particularly appreciative of Sylvester Ngobese. 27 What’s Watt June 2017 General

Distribution Transformers’ long-service awards for 2016 Among a total of 54 employees of Andile Mdlokovana, Johannes Sithole, Sipho Khoza, Petros Duma and Distribution Transformers who were Mkhwanazi, Morris Malamula, Dick Buselaphi Mbatha, presented with long-service awards Mboweni, Sibusiso Madlala, Lungelo at the end of last year were Lucas Mabena, the division’s Materials Manager, and Johannes Jacobs, a wireman on the Large Line, who both received awards for 25 years’ service. The long-service awards pres- entations, by Divisional CEO Alan Buchholtz, and Financial Manager Pieter Grové were staged on two days in November 2016. The other recipients were: 15 years: Sydney Ngobeni, Maurice Zikalala, Kenneth Peete, Harry Ngobeni, Jaco Jansen van Vuuren, Themba Ndhlovu, David Nhlapo, Geoff Nedzamba, Refinas Mashilwane, Joshua Mdebuka, Causwel Dlamini, Amon Nkala, Thando Lephoko, Abram Mojela, Papi Mphuthi and Harness Mashicila. 10 years: Jonas Mabitsela, Jetro Mdlalose, Mduduzi Sibiya, Joshua Macucwa, Ndumiso Gxako, Thomas Mongwe, Jabulani Ndabula, Mothapi Seetsi, Themba Dube, Walter Dlamini, Dumisani Thela, Siphamandla Magudulela, Mduduzi Tshotini, Maluta Ramalisa, Obakeng Moime, Frans Manyane, Michael Motsoeneng, Sipho Sekome, Stevens Hlatshwayo, Patrick Pisane, Thabiso Pangumso, Lucky Nyilika, Prince Nhubunga, Reginald Ndzimande, Sebenzile Mfecane, Top picture: Alan Buchholtz presents Lucas Mabena with his long-service award. Above: Johannes Ronald Mishasha, Teboho Mahlangu, Jacobs (right) receives his award from Financial Manager Pieter Grové. ACTOM Knights Football Club make impressive comeback with double victory in local contests

The ACTOM Knights Football the subsequent 2015/16 season that quent Champ of Champs tournament Club, comprising employees from ended in May last year. we didn’t make it beyond the quarter- Distribution Transformers and High That was Victory No.1 for them, but finals,” explained Club Secretary Voltage Equipment at Knights, have this was only the start! Winning the Vuyani Bonoyi. made an amazing comeback after be- Second Division title qualified them The true significance of their ing relegated to the Second Division to participate in the 2015/16 Champ Champ of Champs win can best be of the East Rand Industrial Football of Champs knockout competition, appreciated from the fact that the League (ERIFL) three years ago. which culminated with the staging of other qualifiers for this competition They immediately began improving the semi-finals and final in Tembisa were the First Division winners, plus by reorganising the team and fixing in March this year, when the ACTOM the winners of two other competitions the faults and weaknesses that led to team made it through to the finals to run by the ERIFL. their relegation from the First Division beat Villa Foundry 3-2 and earn the One of the additional competitions in the 2014/15 season. They rapidly winner’s trophy. is the Top 8 knockout event, in which the displayed their renewed competitive It is their first Champ of Champs ACTOM team again displayed their im- spirit by making it into second place in victory. “We previously took part in pressive skills in the sport by taking the the league competition for that season. Champ of Champs for the 2013/14 second slot in the final in February this They then went on to claim top place season after we qualified for it as the year to earn the Runners-Up trophy. in the Second Division at the end of First Division winners, but in the subse- In addition to the stunning achieve- What’s Watt June 2017 28 General

ments by the team as a whole, their star player, Amen Baloyi, was awarded the Top Goal Scorer trophy for his total tally of 31 goals scored in the Second Division league competition in 2015/16, which was seven goals ahead of his closest rival. Unsurprisingly, at the end of the 2015/16 season of the league competi- tion, the ACTOM team were promoted back into the First Division for the cur- rent 2016/17 season. Here’s hoping they can achieve similar spectacular successes this time round as they did last season!

Team members and officials of the ACTOM Knights Football Club proudly display the Champ of Champs trophy (left) and Second Division winners’ trophy for the 2015/16 season. Loveday and Zonele triumph with top placings in tougher-than-ever Dusi Canoe Marathon Most people from ACTOM who Pietermaritzburg and Durban. of drinking water through the day. participate in the great annual Dusi “At the best of times the Dusi, “An extra challenge for Loveday and Canoe Marathon in Kwazulu-Natal unlike most of the other top canoe Zonele is that, being fulltime employ- in February are dubbed “week- marathons around the world, involves ees, they can’t train as intensively for end warriors” by Rod Penaluna, many difficult portages, but this year the race as the professional canoeists Electrical Products’ Divisional CEO the portages were more numerous and they’re competing against at this level – who’s well qualified to judge, as longer than ever, due to the drought. can. The professionals are also able he has participated in a few and says In addition, wherever paddling was to do a recce of the route beforehand he himself is one of these. possible the shallow water made the to plan their race strategies,” Rod That’s tribute enough – anyone who going more difficult,” said Rod. commented. takes part in this, one of the most ardu- Both Loveday and Zonele encoun- Both men grew up in The Valley of ous canoe races in the world, deserves tered unexpected problems, but suc- a Thousand Hills and so were exposed due recognition for their courage and ceeded in overcoming them to end to the thrills of Dusi at an early age. determination, even when they fail. But high up in the rankings at the finish. On Both started canoeing at the age of 13. Rod reserves the highest tribute to the the first day Loveday suffered severe To date Loveday has taken part few he calls “elite athletes”. stomach cramps, which slowed him in 14 Dusi races in all, achieving his Two staffers in Rod’s business unit down, while Zonele was hampered by best placing of third position in 2005, who took part in Dusi this year are thirst on the second day through losing while Zonele has clocked up a total of fully deserving of this title, due to their contact with his support crew, who 12 Dusi’s so far, with a best finishing incredible fitness and canoeing skills, was supposed to replenish his supply placing of fifth position in 2014. as proven by their highly impressive performances. They are Zonele Nzuza, 27, a SHEQ Trainee at Genlux Lighting, and Loveday Zondi, 31, Electrical Products’ Product Coordinator for T&D equipment, who collected gold and silver medals in finishing ninth and twelfth respectively out of the total 750 finishers in the punishing 124km three-day event. This year’s contest, a singles race, turned out to be even more punish- ing than usual, thanks to the intense heat and the low water levels in the Msunduzi and Mgeni rivers in which the race is run through The Valley of a Thousand Hills between Canoeists Loveday Zondi (left) and Zonele Nzuza after their impressive showing in the Dusi Marathon. 29 What’s Watt June 2017 ACTOM divisions and business units

POWER ENGINEERING PROJECTS & CONTRACTS John Thompson, Bellville: (021) 959-8400 Industry: (011) 430-8700 John Thompson, Isando: (011) 392-0900 Industry is the system integrator in the ACTOM group. It provides John Thompson, Durban: (031) 408-9700 turnkey drive and control systems for mining, metals and process John Thompson, Cresta: (011) 478 0456 industries as well as the public sector. It is equipped with local www.johnthompson.co.za expertise for design, manufacture, project management, installation John Thompson designs, manufactures, installs and maintains indus- and commissioning and after sales service. trial boilers and environmental equipment for local and international process steam and power generation applications. It also retrofits, Contracting: (011) 430-8700 services and maintains utility boilers and environmental equipment Contracting is the electrical and instrumentation business unit which in the power generation market, as well as designing, supplying and provides turnkey solutions for electrical power and instrument & installing dust control, product recovery and gas-cleaning equipment control systems in the mining and manufacturing industries as well for the mining, mineral processing, cement, chemical, petrochemical as the public sectors. and food industries. Power Systems: (011) 430-8700 POWER CONVERSION Power Systems delivers complete MV, HV, EHV and renewal bal- Electrical Machines: (011) 899-1111 ance of plant turnkey projects for the electrical power industry. It Electrical Machines supplies medium and low voltage motors, undertakes AIS, GIS and renewable substations and projects ranging starters, gearboxes and speed reducers to the mining, industrial, from 6,6kV to 500kV. processing and utilities markets. Transport: (011) 871-6600 Large Motors: (011) 899-1111 Transport has three trading units: Large Motors designs and manufactures medium voltage motors ACTOM Signalling; designs, manufactures, install and maintains that include its reputable customised large UNIBOX series and its railway signalling equipment and turnkey systems. high specification MS4 totally enclosed fan-cooled (TEFC) cast-iron ACTOM Transport Equipment and Projects (TEP); a contractor and motors. supplier of rolling stock equipment, parts, maintenance and special- ised depot machinery and test equipment. Laminations & Tooling: (011) 899-1111 ARNOT Vibration Solutions (AVS); suppliers of anti-vibration products Laminations & Tooling manufactures laminated components and and engineered solutions to a wide range of industries, including tooling for the electric motor manufacturing and repair industries. rolling stock.

Elmacast Foundry: (011) 818-3511 HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT Elmacast Foundry manufactures castings in all grades of SG iron, High Voltage Equipment: (011) 820-5111 grey iron and high chrome irons for the mining, railways, earthmov- High Voltage Equipment is a designer, manufacturer and supplier ing and pump industries. of high voltage equipment to power utilities, local authorities and industry. It manufactures and supplies isolators, instrument trans- HVAC Systems, Durban: (031) 700-3286 formers, circuit breakers and dog-box circuit breakers. HVAC Systems, Cape Town: (021) 981-0111 www.actom-hvac.co.za MEDIUM VOLTAGE & PROTECTION HVAC Systems designs, supplies and installs industrial ventilation, MV Switchgear: (011) 820-5111 heating and air-conditioning systems for the petrochemical, paper, MV Switchgear designs, manufactures, supplies and installs me- pharmaceutical, mining, food, textile and various other industries. dium voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear that includes indoor switchgear, miniature substations, ring main units and containerized Static Power: (011) 397-5316 substations - serving power utilities, local authorities, contractors, Static Power Specialize in the design and manufacture of AC and DC industry and the mining sector. It also specializes in the repair and standby equipment,including thyristor type battery chargers (Micro maintenance of electrical networks. Process Controlled option), industrial batteries, power supplies, recti- fiers, DC/DC converters, DC/AC inverters, furnace control panels, Protection & Control: (011) 820-5111 capacitor trip units, battery trip units, power distribution boards. All Protection & Control is a market leader in the supply of protection systems are designed and engineered to suit their purpose. and metering solutions to the electrical industry. The offering in- cludes a comprehensive range of automation systems, protection Alkaline Batteries: (011) 397-5326 relays, credit, smart and prepayment metering systems and hosted Alkaline Batteries, is the South African Distributor for ALCAD and services as well as LV panels, components and accessories. SAFT industrial nickel cadmium and Lithium Ion batteries for the industrial, telecoms, rail and renewable energy markets. Services Current Electric: (011) 822-2300 offered; Installation, Commissioning, Battery Sizing, Testing, Training, Current Electric designs, manufactures and supplies medium voltage Maintenance and Repairs. current and voltage transformers to switchgear manufacturers and repairers, electrical distributors and a diverse range of end-users COM 10: (011) 552-8368 locally and internationally. COM10 is a local assembler and integrator of Alpha switchmode rectifiers, DC/DC Converters with sophisticated supervisory control- POWER TRANSFORMERS lers, Haze Batteries, stands, battery cubicles and power enclosures. Power Transformers: (011) 824-2810 Power Transformers designs, manufactures and supplies a wide range of power transformers to power utilities, electrical contrac- tors, the mining sector, local authorities and industry locally and internationally.

DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS Distribution Transformers: (011) 820-5111 Distribution Transformers designs, manufactures and supplies distribution transformers to power utilities, the mining sector, local authorities and industry locally and internationally.

What’s Watt June 2017 30 LH MARTHINUSEN ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT LH Marthinusen: (011) 615-6722 www.actomep.co.za www.lhm.co.za Electrical Products: (011) 878-3050 LH Marthinusen repairs and refurbishes transformers and rotating Electrical Products is ACTOM’s trading and representation arm, machines, including repairs to hydro and thermal power alternators. with a national network of strategically located branches. The busi- Manufacture of electric motor components, insulation components ness unit supplies products produced by ACTOM divisions and and specialised transformers and motors. It also provides engineer- other manufacturers, including cable, cable accessories, lighting ing services for its products to the mining, industrial and petrochemi- equipment, heating and ventilation equipment, circuit breakers, cal sectors and local authorities, as well as for the export market. distribution transformers, minisubs, protection and control equip- ment, electric motors, meters and fusegear. REID & MITCHELL Reid & Mitchell: (011) 914-9600 TLT ACTOM: (011) 878-3050 www.reidmitchell.co.za TLT ACTOM designs, manufactures, supplies and installs industrial, Reid & Mitchell is a repairer and manufacturer of electrical equipment process, ventilation fan systems, heating, ventilation and air-con- for open cast mining, steel, rail transportation and marine indus- ditioning (HVAC) systems to the mining, processing, air pollution tries. Motors and generators for excavators, off-highway vehicles, control, power generation and construction industries. locomotives, drilling and pumping applications. The division is also a specialist repairer of DC motors and generators, including rebuilds, Appliance Components: (021) 863-2035 rewinds and commutator manufacture. www.satchwell.co.za Appliance Components manufactures and supplies domestic and Metalplus: (011) 433-1880 industrial heating elements, temperature controls, refrigeration www.metalplus.co.za components, solar water heating components and appliance spares Metalplus is an expert mechanical facility. It has pioneered to the domestic appliance manufacturing industry and the chemical, Submerged Arc Micro welding in South Africa. It’s core competen- mining and construction industries, among others. cies are machining of new shafts and repair, grinding and micro welding of all types of rotating equipment and other mechanical Genlux Lighting: (011) 825-3144 components, as well as the mechanical repairs of a wide range of www.genluxlighting.co.za electrical components (traction motor casings, electric motor cas- Genlux Lighting is a leading designer and manufacturer of luminaires ings, end/bearing caps, etc.). for roadway lighting, floodlighting, outdoor commercial lighting and industrial applications. It produces a wide range of high qual- MARTHINUSEN & COUTTS ity products and employs a team of expert designers, with further Marthinusen & Coutts: (011) 607-1700 technological support available from a leading international designer www.mandc.co.za and manufacturer of luminaires. Marthinusen & Coutts offers the most extensive after-market ser- vices throughout Africa. The range of 24/7 motor repairs covers ACTOM ENERGY large and small AC and DC motors, flameproof motors, traction ACTOM Energy: (021) 511-9146 motors and power generators up to 980 MW. M&C’s services www.actomenergy.co.za include customised manufacture and design, on-site engineering ACTOM Energy in collaboration with divisions within the ACTOM services and unique motor management solutions that complement group, provides System Integrations and Turnkey Subsystems the repair business. across all sectors.

ACTOM Turbo Machines: (016) 971-1550 hydron hydraulics: (021) 511-9146 Capabilities include minor and major repairs on any design or type www.hydron.co.za of turbine, generator, stator or rotor. hydron hydraulics designs and supplies hydraulic engineering sys- tems and services to the offshore oil & gas sector internationally. WILEC Equipment it designs, supplies, assembles, refurbishes, repairs and Wilec: (011) 629-9300 installs includes high pressure power packs, ring main units, winch- www.wilec.co.za es, cranes, ballast systems and drilling and under-sea equipment. Wilec specialises in the manufacture and distribution of a diverse range of materials serving predominantly the electric motor and Electrowave Cape: (021) 510-2550 transformer manufacturing and repair industries. The product range www.electrowavecape.co.za includes enameled and covered conductor manufactured under the Electrowave Cape designs, supplies and services electrical and elec- Transwire brand, and a comprehensive range of insulating materials, tronic engineering systems for the marine and offshore industries impregnating resins, cables, bearings and industrial tapes sourced locally and internationally. These include design and installation of from leading global manufacturers. Materials are sourced in bulk power automation and drive systems, automation and instrumen- and converted in South Africa into kits, machined components and tation systems and generator control systems and refurbishment, slit rolls according to customer requirements. repair, installation and maintenance services.

Namibia Armature Rewinders: (00264) 64-462-886 Namibia Armature Rewinders repairs electric motors, generators and other rotating equipment for a wide range of industries in Namibia. What’s Watt is published by ACTOM (Pty) Ltd to inform staff, customers and other stakeholders of developments within the group.

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