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⎪ Products and industry news ⎪
Atlas Copco sets
non-financial goals
Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable
productivity solutions, has revised the key
performance indicators (KPIs) and goals for its
non-financial priorities for sustainable profitable
growth. Last year Atlas Copco identified five pri-
orities to support sustainable profitable growth:
ethical behaviour, health and safety, competent
teams, resource efficiency, and innovation.
The newly established goals for the first
four priorities are common for all Atlas Copco
Group companies and include such items as zero
fatalities, 100% of managers signing compliance
to Atlas Copco’s Business Code of Practice, and
continued reductionof energy consumption from
operations in relation to cost of sales.
The Innovation KPIs and goals are set indi-
vidually by each division to be relevant to their
specific businesses. These strive to ensure higher
productivity, energy efficiency, safety and ergo-
nomics for customers.
“We achieve sustainable profitable growth
by continuously developing the most energy-
efficient andproductiveproducts for our custom-
ers,” says Ronnie Leten, Atlas Copco’s President
and CEO.
Multotec has grown its Africa footprint
over almost two decades, and puts its
success down to developing local capac-
ity– including skills and infrastructure–as
close to the customer as possible, to allow
quick and effective response.
“We prioritise skills transfer and
WearCheck’s oil analysis and reliability solutions services
received a boost with the recent appointment of several
professionals.
JacquesBlignaut(right)isthenewchemistinWearCheck’s
Pinetown laboratory. The capacity for this positionhas devel-
oped as the laboratory becomes busier due to the company’s
expansion around Africa. Blignaut, who holds a Masters
Degree in chemistry, will also be assisting with research and
development for WearCheck.
Paul Nhlapohas beenpromoted tohandlebusiness devel-
opment and technical support for WearCheck Middelburg and the surrounding areas.
Jacoba Schwartz is WearCheck’s new agent in Kathu, covering the areas from
Kuruman to Upington and surrounds, developing sales, processing quotations and col-
lecting filled sample bottles to dispatch to the laboratory.
Fluke, represented locallybyTheComtest
Group, is offering the Fluke 985 par-
ticle counter, a rugged, highly accurate
meter that measures airborne particles
to troubleshoot and monitor indoor air
quality (IAQ).
The 985 is ideal for facility mainte-
nance and for use by HVAC and IAQ pro-
fessionals to monitor clean rooms and to
conductHVACfilter testing and IAQcom-
missioning and investigations in buildings.
Other applications include: contamination
and quality control; energy assessment;
indoor air quality investigations; filter
testing and leak detection.
Fluke’s 985 particle counter features:
six particle size channels with a range
of 0.3 µm to 10 µm, assuring accurate
measurements; rugged, ultra-lightweight,
ergonomic design for easy single-hand
operation; in-device storage of 10 000
records for easy access to historical data;
and ten hours of standard-use battery life
to last a full working day.
The 985 has a large 3.5 inch (8.9 cm)
QVGC colour display with backlight and
Particle counter delivers indoor air quality intuitive icons, plus a large font
option for easy navigation
and viewing. It features
configurable settings
for the display, sample
methods and sample size
alarm. Data can be pre-
sented in traditional tabu-
lar or as a trend graph and
exported to a USB memory
stick or directly to a PC via a
USB or Ethernet cable. The
metermeets ISO21501, JIS
B9921 and CE standards.
The 985 comes with a
cradle for charging andUSB and Ethernet
communications, ENET CAT5E cable,
USB-A to MINI-B cable, 12 Vdc pow-
er supply, zero count inlet-filter, filter
adapter, sample inlet protective cap, hard
case, getting started manual and a user
manual on CD.
Growing Africa-wide on-site maintenance capability
capacity-building in our African facilities,
and also train our customers’ staff in the
maintenance of our equipment,” says
MultotecCEOThomasHoltz. “It is becom-
ing increasingly important – both to us as
suppliers and to our customers, themines
– to invest in local skill development as a
key sustainability practice.”
Multotec has for many years
provided training in process-related
topics in South Africa and, in recent
years, has rolled this out in a more
formal and structured manner in
other regions. The group’s equip-
ment can today be found in almost
50 countries on six continents, with
a portfolio in all commodities.
Holtz says the focus of the train-
ing is to bridge the gap between
the theory that mine staff will have
AMultotec-hosted technical workshop in Ghana: “The focus of the
training is to bridge the gap between the theory that mine staff will
have learnt in tertiary studies and the practical day-to-day mechanics
of working with equipment in a plant environment,” says Holtz.
learnt in tertiary studies and the practical
day-to-day mechanics of working with
equipment in a plant environment.
“The culture of a fly-in-fly-out consul-
tant is expensive and generally does not
empower local professionals and opera-
tors,” he says. “Where we can build local
capacity to support our products, the
customers appreciate that – and we’ve
seen growing interest in this training over
the past two to three years.”
AccordingtoMultotecAfricamanaging
director Jaco du Toit, the cradle-to-grave
concept ensures compliance with the
mine’s ISO14000environmentalmanage-
ment standards – where the group pro-
vides the equipment, technical expertise
and maintenance, as well as the removal
and recycling of the product at the end of
its life.
Condition monitoring capacity increase