In collaboration with a partnership between UXI Artisan Development Group and Swan Electrical. MCD Training Centre recently accepted a donation from Swan Electric. The company sponsored control switchgear and accessories and will also provide MCD Training Centre with new training boards to enhance the electrical facility, and to assist with Solar training and solar accessories.
MCD Training Centre was founded in 2001 following the implementation of a privatisation programme in the Samancor group, which is part of the Billiton group of companies. MCD Training Centre is based in Meyerton and has a satellite branch in Rustenburg.
“Our company is in a position where we really want to make a difference in South Africa,” said Swan Electric General Manager Steve Schwartz at the handover. “Although this is a well-trodden statement that people make about their companies, we really do feel that we have something with which we can make a difference. This partnership with MCD is just the beginning; we want to walk a road of collaboration and believe that we have something to bring to the educational forums.”
Elsie Harmse, Group Chief Executive Officer of MCD Training said that the company’s passion is the development of South Africa’s youth and that the donation from Swan Electric will give the company a better working environment. “The UXI Group is a national private college platform which trains artisans; within the group we train more or less 3 000 artisans a year,” she explained. “However, we want to train them on the quality that the industry expects, and that is why it is so important that we have partnerships such as this.”
Swan Electric is as a supplier of low voltage electrical equipment to the Southern African and other markets. Swan and its subsidiary Switch Technique, as well as Mantech Electronics, are wholly owned subsidiaries of Mobicon, a company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The alliance between Swan, Mantech and Switch Technique provides enormous synergistic benefits, including the ability to offer customers an extremely wide product range. Swan Electric has worked very closely with many SMME’s to build electrical products for Government institutions and project developments.
Enquiries: www.swan-electric.co.za and www.mcdtraining.co.za
