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COMPANY
PROFILE
PILOT CRUSHTEC INTERNATIONAL (PTY) LTD
is SouthAfrica’s leading
supplier of mobile
and semi-mobile crushing, screening and material handling solutions. With an annual turnover
exceeding ZAR550-million and employing 160 people at its head office and assembly factory in
Jet Park, Boksburg, it markets its products and services in over 40 countries.
At a media briefing, Sandro stated that he had two announcements: “I have been very hard at
work bedding down the Sandvik distributorship and, more significantly, working on a deal to buy
out all my partners in Pilot Crushtec. Today, I am pleased to announce that a transaction was
finalised in February of this year and from the 1st March 2013, we began trading as a new entity
called Pilot Crushtec International (Pty) Ltd. For the first time since starting Pilot Crushtec 23 years
ago, I indirectly own 100% of the equity in the company.”
He went on to introduce the new ad campaign, titled the ‘The Power of Pilot’. “The words big,
bigger, power, more powerful, are freely used in this campaign as we believe they beautifully sum
up our bigger and more powerful new products, our bigger product range, the present scale of our
company and our plans for the future.
“With our new partnerships, we can now answer the market call for bigger and better products
to meet the crushing and screening requirements of bigger mines with tougher rocks and difficult
operating conditions.”
He added that Pilot’s recent partnership with Sandvik Construction, “has to be one of the most
exciting events in our 23-year history, as the power unleashed by these high output machines will
have an exceptional effect on our current and future customers’ productivity and profitability.We’re
setting a new course and the destination is growth.”
Owing to its continued growth, there has been significant investment in improving the existing
premises, with emphasis on the spare parts sales area. “We are upgrading this area to provide
those customers who are collecting spare parts with a more pleasant and speedy interaction,”
he said. In addition, there has been further capex approved to create shelving systems that will
increase the stores capacity.
Something
BIG
happening
Deviating from his
prepared speech,
Sandro Sherf,
CEO, Pilot Crushtec,
was upbeat when
he announced to
the media that the
company was in
for BIG things…
Above: Sandro Scherf
, CEO Pilot Crushtec
International (PTY) Ltd is upbeat
about the BIG future of the company.
