Transformers, Substations + The Grid

South Africa-based Trafo Power Solutions has recently supplied a turnkey mobile transformer solution to an Australian mining customer. Managing Director, David Claassen, says this success is underpinned by Trafo Power Solutions’ depth of experience across industries, combined with its in-house design expertise and a responsive approach to business, which is opening doors for it to grow its export markets.

Copper theft continues to place enormous strain on utilities, municipalities, and industry, often resulting in costly damage, downtime, and unsafe electrical environments.

ACTOM last week officially opened its Pretoria Power Transformers manufacturing facility. This follows the group’s strategic acquisition of SGB Smit Power Matla when that company was struggling to emerge from a business rescue process and overcome concurrent challenges. The acquisition, which represents a major investment by ACTOM, was structured as an asset transaction including the SSPM facilities and the transfer of staff.

Municipalities throughout South Africa are facing rising energy demands and increasing costs – as well as opportunities to participate in a new market of energy independence and self-sufficiency. Modern power generation, storage, management, and transmission innovations bring the energy market closer to municipalities.

On a recent visit to Power Process Systems’ manufacturing facility in Aeroton south of Johannesburg, Electricity + Control had the chance to gain an inside view of the work this South African original equipment manufacturer does.