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The world economy still remains highly fluid and volatile, given the wars in Palestine and Ukraine, the Red Sea crisis, as well as geopolitical factors which impact the world. Although interest rates are currently high, it is expected we will see a relaxation later this year and this will in turn...

Feature

Continental Africa has long been considered the land of future opportunity. With the predicted exponential growth in population, the continent is predicted to almost double its population by the year 2050. It is further projected that the economically active population on the continent would be one of the largest in the world. This will create a major demand for products and services, which will...

Corporate

ACTOM has launched a bold new skills training initiative to assist people living with disabilities to make ends meet and earn enough to support...

ACTOM’s top management team who administer and judge the annual Chairman’s Award have revamped the criteria by which the performances of the group’s...

ACTOM, which exhibits every year in the popular three-day Enlit Africa Power & Energy conference & exhibition at the Cape Town International...

The SA Institute of Electrical Engineers’ (SAIEE) “Engineer of the Year” award for 2023 was won by Dr Mpho Nkambule, an Electrical &...

Development

The shortage of engineers in South Africa is a pressing concern with far-reaching implications for economic growth and development. Without skilled engineers, South Africa faces significant challenges in addressing its infrastructure needs, driving innovation, and competing globally. Limited access to quality education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, particularly in disadvantaged communities, means many potential engineers are lost early in the pipeline. Furthermore, South African universities produce only a small number of engineering graduates each...

Power

Introduction Biomass power plants play a critical role in sustainable energy production, utilising organic materials to generate heat and electricity. Within these facilities boilers convert heat energy (liberated from combusting biomass) into steam to drive turbines and produce power. Diagnosing faults within biomass boilers can be challenging, as issues may not always be readily apparent or easily detectable through traditional means. To address this challenge, modern industrial water-tube boilers are equipped with an array of sensors capable of capturing vast amounts of operational...

Engineering Projects & Contracts

During 2023 ACTOM Industry acquired the sole and exclusive ownership of both the Safdy Air Velocity Detector and the Safdy Methane Detector. Our business now have the sole and exclusive rights to manufacture, market, and distribute all these products under one roof. Our fire detection systems are approved as intrinsically safe for use in explosive atmospheres. Our systems are SABS approved and certified to meet the rigorous standards of  SANS 1515. The Air Velocity Detector complements our line-up of robust and reliable fire detection systems range, which includes the following: Air...

MV Switchgear

MV Switchgear has boosted the marketability of its AMV17 and AMV12 brands of air-insulated withdrawable pattern indoor switchgear after successfully completing additional IEC Standards type testing of the AMV17 product...

MV Switchgear’s services unit, WPI Power Solutions, which procures, installs, repairs, refurbishes and maintains electrical networks in the local market, was contracted by a leading Mpumalanga-based petro-chemical company in...

ACTOM WPI is a proud recipient of a Platinum Award, the highest accolade bestowed on them by Gerrit Viljoen, Senior Vice President, Sasol Secunda Operations, for their exceptional work performed under complex and time-sensitive...

Distribution Transformers

Distribution Transformers recently developed and launched into the market a new design of NECRT that is well in advance of the former model produced by the division, as it is substantially more robust and therefore better suited to Africa’s harsh operating conditions. Distribution Transformers developed the new product in close collaboration with Eskom, which extended the specifications from those that applied previously to encompass a voltages range of 2.2kV up to 44kV, an Amperes range of 360A to 2800A and a power rating range of 50kVA to 500kVA for the auxiliary transformers of the...

Reid & Mitchell

Reid & Mitchell (R&M) has established three clean rooms for the winding of stators in its Benoni workshop to prevent contamination during the winding process, thereby improving their integrity when they resume operation after being repaired. “A controlled environment such as this minimises the risk of insulation faults occurring in the stators, as it keeps chemicals, moisture and dust...

Switched Reluctance (SR) technology Reid & Mitchell (R&M) has joined forces with Komatsu SA on a new project as its local service provider on key electrical machine components. This new venture commenced when Komatsu SA approached R&M recently to repair and test Switched Reluctance generators & motors used on SR hybrid front-end loaders in the mining industry. Switched...

Marthinusen & Coutts

Marthinusen & Coutts (M&C), has a maintenance contract with the City of Cape Town at Steenbras hydropower station. The Power Station is situated in the Gordon’s Bay area and has four pump turbine motor generator units each with a capacity of 45MW which supplies power to the city. Power demands necessitated a new operating philosophy of the units with more stop-start cycles, The City of...

Spare units are one way to ensure a reliable plant that suffers the least downtime. But spare components are very difficult to obtain from the older machines – and complete spare machines are either unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Illovo Sugar has two 10MVA 8MW 4-pole cylindrical rotor synchronous generators utilised at their Noodsberg and Sezela mills in Kwazulu-Natal. These machines...

ACTOM Turbo Machines

After demonstrating within a short time its ability to achieve a high standard of workmanship in maintenance and repair, ACTOM Turbo Machines was promoted by Baker Hughes to the status of service provider in Sub-Saharan Africa for the wide range of industrial equipment it has supplied into the region over many years. ACTOM Turbo’s certification as a service provider for the internationally renowned industrial equipment manufacturer and supplier came into effect at the beginning of 2023 after the local repairer, refurbisher and maintainer of turbo-machinery and high-speed rotating equipment...

Metalplus

In February this year a power utility in Sothern Africa approached Metalplus with an urgent request: Could it perform a complex repair procedure on a 30t 2.9m diameter low pressure steam turbine rotor from one of its coal-fired power stations in just four days? This extremely daunting challenge was promptly taken on by Metalplus, which quoted to perform the work on the massive CNC lathe located at Marthinusen & Coutts’ Power Generation workshop in Benoni.

ACTOM Smart Technologies

Protection & Control (P&C) conducted its 50th five-day Mini-APPS course in February this year. ACTOM’S protection, control and metering solutions business unit, along with Measurements, its predecessor, have been running the Mini-APPS course for protection engineers...

Protection & Control (P&C) recently completed the assembly of a state-of-the-art digital protection system from Schneider Electric for Unit One of the Koeberg nuclear power station in the Western Cape.

Static Power has developed and manufactures a DC chop-over box to facilitate the prompt provision of temporary power to substations in the event of failure of the Substation DC system. Tony Gordon, Manager, Technical Sales, of the business unit, which has been providing DC...

Our People

Pedro Adams has been appointed Divisional CEO of the Electrical Equipment division with effect from March 1, 2024.   Nicholas Msibihas been appointed Divisional CEO of the Engineering Projects & Contracts division with effect...

LH Marthinusen (LHM) Cape Town, with generous funding from LHM Denver, donated R 75 000-00 to Radio KFM 94.5 for their “Stationary Vehicle Drive.” This drive aimed to collect and donate stationary and sanitary products to underprivileged schools in...

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