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approach with our customers affords us their repeat business as
we value their confidence in our products and services which we
provide without exception.
Who are your major clients?
WBHO/Group Five/Steffanutti Stocks/Mota-Engil/MT
Developments/Barrow Construction are just a few of our clients
and our focus is to grow this list to incorporate the developing
construction companies which are being groomed within the
BBBEE sphere.
What are some of the projects that you have recently worked on?
Projects include: Standard Bank Rosebank, Discovery building in
Sandton, Time Square in Menlyn, Pretoria, Fourways Mall, Oxglen
Office Park and Eastgate Shopping Centre.
What did you supply for these projects?
Expansion joint formers and EPS Polystyrene, the alternative to
softboard sealerstrip.
Do you offer ‘green products’?
We offer green product which is manufactured to the EPSASA
specification and is locally manufactured and proudly South African.
What products did you supply for the Times Square Casino project?
EPS polystyrene and polyethylene joint formers. The project is
currently in progress. 
When was Thusanane Construction Suppliers established?
Thusanane Construction Suppliers was registered on 27 May 2011,
yet only started operating on 1 August 2011.
Who are the main role players?
The founding member of Thusanane is Lukia Svoronos.
How big is the company?
The company is a small entity with the emphasis on empowering
women in the industry to become role models for other young
women wanting to get into construction.
What is your BBBEE status?
Thusanane is a Level 4 company as we are an EME.
What is the company’s core business?
It supplies expansion joint formers, polystyrene sealer strips and
insulation to the construction industries. We also provide other
consumables as required by our customers.
What is the company’s unique selling point?
Thusanane values customers and is customer centric with the
customers’ success at heart. Our professional and personal
Towards repeat business
Construction World spoke to Thusanane Construction
Suppliers about its operations and the products that it
supplies to major developers.
ABOVE: Thusanane Construction Suppliers supplied EPS polystyrene
and polyethylene joint formers to the Time Square project in Menlyn.