Electricity + Control August 2015

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ELECTRICAL PROTECTION + SAFETY
New premises for cable company
Local cable manufacturer, Alvern Cables, has moved into its newly
constructed, premises in Branch Road, Driehoek, Germiston.The
factory will be remaining in Knights,Witfield, and the extra space
made available by this move will allow the installation of new
state of the art equipment to make this cable company even more
competitive in the market.
Commercial director, Stephen Liasides is upbeat about the
move. “Our growth over the years necessitated this change and
the new building is condusive to further progress”.
Alvern Cables has been operating since 1967. As a privately-
owned business, it started by manufacturing low voltage electri-
cal cables for domestic and industrial use. In November 2014, in
addition to Laurence Hendy (Managing director), Willem Smit
(Financial director) and Stephen Liasides (Commercial director) -
Dorothy Botsi-Thulare (Executive director) and Jaycen Padiachy
(Works director) were included as shareholders, bringing the
company to Level 2 B-BBEE – in keeping with current policy in
South Africa.
New toAlvern Cables is a distribution division which specialises
in buying and selling products that are in short supply, as well as
cables for special purpose.
Enquiries: Email
Alvern Cables’ accounts team: Estelle Buitendach,
Anna Carelse, Jeaneth Mogofe, David Brodryk,
Krish Govender and seated, Dorris Nkosi.
Alvern Cables’ sales team: Euodia Hykes, Salesh Singh, Stacy Pillay,
Nathanya Janse van Rensburg, Rebecca Ramdayal. Back: Jaco De
Jager, Reece Naidoo and Sales manager, Donald Matthews.