Steinmüller Africa opens bookings for Boiler Technology Course
Steinmüller Africa is to make its welding expertise accessible via a 5-day online training course that is scheduled for the week of March 10 to March 14, 2025.
Steinmüller Africa is to make its welding expertise accessible via a 5-day online training course that is scheduled for the week of March 10 to March 14, 2025.
The Steinmüller Africa Kendal Boilerserve team has been awarded the Eskom Kendal Power Station Contractor of the Year Award 2024, demonstrating the company’s continued leadership in steam generation plant services.
Steinmüller Africa, a leader in high-pressure steam generation equipment, Along with eNtsa engineering consultants, has successfully used rotary friction welding for fabricating four headers the for the high-pressure water heater boiler units on the Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga.
At Electra Mining Africa earlier this year, Renttech unveiled its latest high-end welding power source, the Kemppi X3 FastMig, a robust high-end welding solution built for difficult jobs in challenging conditions.
At an event at its Boksburg facility in Gauteng in early November, Unique welding launched its locally-manufactured Thermamax Vulcan 1200A Dual multi-function engine-driven onsite welding solution. Thomas Taljaard, Head of Sales and Marketing, outlines some key features and advantages.
Senior Welding Engineer, Friedrich Schwim, outlines his company’s submerged-arc welding (SAW) capabilities, which set the benchmark for excellence in this process, reinforcing Steinmüller Africa’s position as a fabrication leader for the power and petrochemical industries.
AF visits Fronius South Africa’s stand at Electra Mining Africa and talks to Edric van der Walt about the extended welding offering available to welder training centres and fabricators facing limited cash flows but still needing to raise their structural integrity and weld efficiency levels.
AF meets Mike Giltrow and Craig Bister of Bolt and Engineering Distributors (B.E.D.) to find out about the company’s expanding welding offering for the South African and African markets. As well as the top-tier Fronius brand, the range offered by B.E.D. now also includes the GYS brand of mid-tier welding machines and the locally-manufactured and exceptionally rugged Reeflex brand of MMA/TIG and MIG/MAG inverters.
Michael Jacobs, CEO at MD Steel Services, and Petrus Pretorius of Cosmo Group talk about their relationship, that now includes the supply of state-of-the-art CNC laser cutting systems from Shanghai-based ACME-Laser.
Andrew Crackett, managing director of Yaskawa Southern Africa, highlights the value for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of adopting robotic automation solutions and how Yaskawa is addressing barriers to adoption.
AF talks to Willie Burger, ESAB’s new product manager for mechanised cutting, PPE and gas equipment, about ESAB’s Swift Cut plasma cutting system; the integration of Thermal Dynamics plasma cutters with existing CNC tables; the globally renowned gas equipment brands, Victor, GCE, and ESAB; and the importance for fabricators to invest in employee health through best-possible PPE solutions.
African Welding Company (AWC), the Afrox-owned welding company originally set up to distribute voestalpine Böhler Welding (vaBW) products in South Africa, has been relaunched as the channel to market for all Afrox’s welding and hard goods products and services. African Fusion talks to Gerhard van Wyk, the Head of the new entity.
Solidifying the company’s credentials as a multi-brand welding provider of premium welding solutions for South African Industry at all levels, Renttech Welding has opened a new Application Technology Centre (ATC) at its Wadeville premises. AF talks to welding product manager, Johan Bester.
On the occasion of the company’s 21 anniversary, AF talks to New Age Engineering Solutions’ Founder and CEO, Joseph Zinyana, about some of the highlights of the company’s journey.
Chris Smallbone, IIW Fellow, SAIW Fellow and Honorary Life Member, and John Tarboton, SAIW Executive Director, highlight the role of not-for-profit organisations such as the SAIW in working directly alongside global aid/donor agencies to improve the quality of life in developing countries. Most notably, SAIW’s work with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Industrial Development Agency (UNIDO) across Africa is highlighted.
The SAIW member profile for this issue comes from Kelvion Services, an OEM that fabricates and services a comprehensive range of heat exchangers and coolers. AF talks to ISO 3834 welding coordinator and IWE, Pule Maleme; Kelvion’s South African MD, Alex Dreyer; and Engineering Manager, Mike Coats.
Under the theme ‘SAIW: The Backbone of the Welding Industry’ the SAIW’s 2024 awards highlighted the industry’s essential contributions and SAIW’s commitment to sustainability through accessible, quality training.
Nazmi Adams, Senior Vice President at voestalpine Böhler Welding, introduces the new diamondspark GUARD range of seamless flux-cored welding wires, which have been designed to reduce exposure to manganese welding fumes – a potential cause of a Parkinson’s-type disease called manganese toxicity.
The SAIW has been offering technical training for the past 76 years. In this period, we have produced welding technicians, welding inspectors and NDT technicians of superior quality for our national industry. These scarce skills have transformed the students into world respected managers and leaders. We have all experienced the hardship of the training at the Institute compared to other institutions that offer similar training.
The advanced Sonatest VEO3 phased-array and time-of-flight diffraction (PAUT and TOFD) ultrasonic testing instrument, available in South Africa from GammaTec, offers simplicity and detection reliability for all critical applications, most notably, NDT on nuclear infrastructure.