ACTOM once again attracted enormous interest among the thousands of visitors who attended the five-day Electra Mining Africa 2022 exhibition at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in early September.
The biennial exhibition, the biggest mining, manufacturing, electrical & power trade show in Southern Africa, featured more than 650 exhibitors.
ACTOM’s main exhibition stand, featuring a variety of equipment, videos and product & process displays, included the introduction of a number of new product and service offerings, with technical and sales staff from each of the participating group businesses on hand to explain to visitors the features of the various offerings on display.
New offerings showcased on the stand included Power Transformers’ recently-launched online condition monitoring system for transformers, High Voltage Equipment’s ester fluid insulated metering instrument transformer and Static Power’s renewable solar battery charger for industrial solar energy generation applications.
LH Marthinusen focused on presenting the role played by its Fan Service division in industry, particularly the service backup support it provides in Southern Africa on the large axial variable pitch induced draught (ID) fans produced by the world-renowned industrial fans manufacturer TLT-Turbo of Germany.
MV Switchgear had on display its primary switchgear product AMV12, its popular and widely-used RMV gas-insulated ring main unit and its recently-launched entirely in-house developed and manufactured switchgear product SBV4XE, while the group’s Technical Training Centre, which has greatly expanded the range of training courses it offers to industry outside of ACTOM, while continuing to provide comprehensive apprenticeship training for businesses within the group, provided insights via a video presentation into some of the new courses it now has on offer.
Reid & Mitchell showed a promotional video presenting an overview on the range of services it offers and the markets it caters to.
Other group businesses represented on ACTOM’s main exhibition stand were Distribution Transformers, Protection & Control, Marthinusen & Coutts, Electrical Machines, Metalplus and Current Electric.
Two of John Thompson’s business units, Air Pollution Control (APC) and the Utility Boilers & Environmental (B&E) unit, each had their own separate exhibition stands at the show.
APC displayed two of its smaller dust collection units, as well as a model of a large bag filter unit, while the main focus of the B&E unit’s exhibition stand was on the benefits to the local market offered by its recently signed cooperation agreement with STEAG Energy Services, an international company that provides services for power assets.
