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⎪ February 2015 contents ⎪
ON THE COVER
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HTSA takes responsibility for Africa
Hansen Industrial Transmissions South
Africa (HTSA), a Level 4 BBBEE con-
tributor company and the South African
subsidiary of Sumitomo-owned Hansen
Industrial Transmissions (HIT), has had
its market responsibly extended to in-
clude almost all of Africa. MechTech talks
to HTSA’s sales and marketing manager,
David Main and MD, Fritz Fourie.
For more information contact:
David Main
Hansen Industrial Transmissions South
Africa
+27 11 571 9643
+27 83 227 5555
Features
Booyco Engineering celebrates 30 years in business this February and is currently transform-
ing into a globally recognised OEM for the railway sector. Jeremy Pougnet, CEO, outlines his
future vision.
The N’Zilo hydroelectric power station in the Katanga Province of the DRC contracted Mar-
thinusen & Coutts to complete an on-sit
synchronous generator. Richard Botton, d
Multotec is a global leader in trommel screen design and manufacture and has been supplying
the market for more than 20 years. According to screening product manager, Anthony Yell:
“Multotec has built a reputation that now enables us to supply internationally.”
Following the acquisition of RPP Consulting Engineers by the WSP Group in April last year,
MechTech talks to Pieter de Bod, now the director of WSP Mechanical Division, about the
merger and the modern HVAC capabilities that are now being undertaken by his reinforced
team.
Peter Middleton visits Precision Press in PE, where Flip Gunter was commissioning the
company’s new Schuler 630 t servo press, part of a R70-million investment that Gunter
says could “change metal pressing in the automotive sector”.
Reik Winkel of indurad talks about the safety and productivity advantages of protecting and
optimising expensive materials handling equipment with radar-based monitoring, operator
assistance, collision avoidance and automation solutions.
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