Modern Mining April 2016

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40 MODERN MININGApril 2016
COMPANIES
The 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
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
Tenova TAKRAF Africa puts
Tenova TAKRAF Africa was
responsible for the materials
handling portion of Sasol
Mining’s Tweedraai expan-
sion near Secunda.
Richard Späth, Tenova
TAKRAF’s GM, Engineered
Technologies.
Below: Tenova TAKRAF
has developed a modular
overland conveyor consisting
of concrete modules that can
be precast on site.
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
aggressively target areas of the market
where there is scope for growth,” says
Richard Späth, the company’s GM,
Engineered Technologies.