Modern Mining April 2016

COMPANIES

Tenova TAKRAF Africa puts

Tenova TAKRAF Africa, which offers one of the widest ranges of technologies and engineering services for materials handling and air environmental control aimed at the mining sector, has consolidated its operations at its premises in Spartan, Johannesburg and believes that it is now in better shape than it has ever been to meet the demands of its customer base and cope with the challenges presented by the

current depressed mining market. “Tenova TAKRAF Africa has been transformed into a highly focused company that has launched a number of initiatives to

Tenova, which had already absorbed Germany’s TAKRAF in 2007, purchased Bateman Engi- neering, a South African company with roots going back to the 1920s. BET became part of the global Tenova TAKRAF business and was rebranded as Tenova TAKRAF Africa. Says Späth: “We are no longer using the aggressively target areas of the market where there is scope for growth,” says Richard Späth, the company’s GM, Engineered Technologies.

T he broad offering of Tenova TAKRAF Africa stems from the fact that it is an amalgam of the Bateman Engineered Technolo- gies (BET) and TAKRAF brands, which were brought together under ‘one roof’ four years ago when Italian engineering group

Richard Späth, Tenova TAKRAF’s GM, Engineered Technologies.

Tenova TAKRAF Africa was responsible for the materials handling portion of Sasol Mining’s Tweedraai expan- sion near Secunda.

Below: Tenova TAKRAF has developed a modular overland conveyor consisting of concrete modules that can be precast on site.

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