Namibia Armature Rewinders (NAR) has relocated to Walvis Bay from Swakopmund in order to be more easily accessible to customers and potential customers than previously.
The move by NAR to Walvis Bay was made during the last quarter of 2021 and it was fully operational at its new premises in the central Industrial Area of Walvis Bay by December 2021.
“Although Swakopmund is only 40km away from Walvis Bay, some customers were put off by this from making use of our services. Now there’s been a strong upsurge in our business since we made the move, due to our easier accessibility to customers,” commented Johan Smeer, NAR’s General Manager.
NAR’s new premises are also substantially larger than previously, occupying a total area of 2500m2, with workshop space of 2000m2, office space of 250m² and a yard area of 250m².
“We have also acquired some important items of additional equipment, including a second overhead crane and two jib cranes, which have enabled us to increase our work capacity. At the same time we have increased our workshop staff complement by seven to a total of 27 employees,” Johan stated.
The main business of NAR, a business unit in the Reid & Mitchell division, is electric machine rewinds for the fishing, mining and oil offshore industries. It has also recently expanded the scope of its operations to include transformer oil purification for LH Marthinusen, boiler service work for John Thompson and hydraulic service work for ACTOM Energy.
