REGIONAL REPORT | AFRICA
The installation forms part of a $1.5bn
investment by Ford into upgrading their production facilities in the region. Vanguard’s responsibility is an all- encompassing Turnkey Operation, including the complete logistics: the heavy transport of the consignment from Richards Bay to Silverton; off-loading and final positioning of the five presses and associated automated handling stations;
the full installation, including all electrical and PLC programming; commissioning; and the final hand over to the client. In association with related investments
in the Silverton Development, Vanguard in the course of the next four months will install and commission a further 14 presses, three of which are even bigger than the Jier Tandem line. “Vanguard”, says senior field manager Patrick Valentine “are very proud
BB CRANES EXPANDS
A steadily increasing order intake from general industry and consulting engineers has led BB Cranes of Cape Town to step up production to meet demand. The upgrading of water and wastewater treatment plants in the
Western and Eastern Cape is providing much of the additional business. Cranes and hoists are key to these plants. BB Cranes, based in Rivergate, has supplied most of the consulting water treatment reticulation, including the associated pump stations.
Stephen Brink Jnr. “We installed a 3,2-ton single-girder overhead crane there in mid-September 2023, and also four monorail hoists with associated structures.” Design and supply of the hoists was carried out by Condra, BB undertaking girder manufacture, crane assembly, delivery to site,
installation and commissioning. BB will also supply local service support. The seawater desalination plant at the V&A Waterfront is a project potable water to the precinct, replacing dependency on city dams which have in recent years been threatened by drought.
South Africa
Brink said that a bigger order for the company in terms of unit numbers was one for eight cranes and hoists recently placed by an unnamed customer, to be installed at a wastewater treatment of various designs, a jib crane, and several monorail hoists with supporting structures. the same customer, for new bus depots servicing Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Claremont and Wynberg.
to manage growing demand. Two Oceans Marine, a manufacturer of it with two identical double-girder overhead travelling cranes to lift and position boat engines and other components, as well as the completed vessels themselves. compact SH Series. Again, overall design and the supply of the manufacture and assembly.
BB Cranes 3,2-ton single-girder overhead crane being installed at the seawater desalination plant, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront with BB Cranes senior sales executive Stephen Brink Jnr..
both of which also have BB cranes installed in their factories. An overhead crane needed for construction of an ultra-large catamaran Smaller orders include two single-girder overhead machines supplied to a manufacturer of vehicle trailers. competitiveness is ongoing. a replacement crane from us because of the failure of a cheaper machine,” he noted. “That failure cost the customer downtime and lost production because of a lack of spares availability. Condra spare parts are always always be payback in the medium term.”
to be part of this development in Silverton. To be entrusted with the turnkey installation from Richards Bay to final hand over of a working line to the customer of a plant as sophisticated as this is a feather in our cap. I am pleased to say that so far all has gone according to plan.” ‘Ex Africa semper aliquid novi,’ wrote
Pliny the Elder around the year 70 AD: Out of Africa there is always something new.
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