CORPORATE NEWS
Flowcrete South Africa opens new Durban warehouse
Aggreko supplies 28 MW of stable power to Madagascar Aggreko has announced that it has started to supply stable power, using 28 MW of its HFO-generated energy. The occasion was marked by the attendance of President of Madagascar, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Prime Minister, Olivier Solonandrasana and Minister of Water, Energy and Hydrocarbons, Lantoniaina Rasoloelison. Aggreko has provided power to Madagascar for a number of years. This new installation – NOOR 2 – will run alongside Jovena’s NOOR 1 turbines, as part of an extension to a 50 MW agreement with the country’s national utility company, Jirama. Aggreko has developed a best in class HFO energy generation solution, comprising containerized mobile, modular energy generators that can be configured and deployed in weeks. The company’s HFO offering has lowered the total cost of energy for Jovena and brings cost effective, reliable and uninterrupted electricity to the 1.4 million residents of the island’s capital, Antananarivo.
Flowcrete South Africa has moved to a new, larger warehouse and office facility in Durban in order to provide a more customer focused service. The new warehouse has been designed to put the customer first. Based in Westmead, Durban, the new facility is significantly larger than the previous warehouse. The site also includes a new office and a product showroom. The resin flooring manufacturer’s warehouse operations were previously based at its factory in Jacobs, Durban, but since 3rd January 2018 this work has taken place at its new premises in Westmead, Durban. The address of the new warehouse is: Unit 10 Gillitts Industrial Park, 32-35 Gillitts Road, Westmead, Durban, The move was central to Flowcrete Africa’s development and growth strategy, which includes adding Euclid Chemical and RPM Belgium Vandex construction chemical solutions to its product offering.
Melcon secures third most expensive road deal in Ethiopia Melcon Construction Plc, a local construction firm in Ethiopia has been awarded a project contract to construct the nation’s third most expensive road. The road project is estimated to cost US $19.7m extending from Haile Garment to Jemo square. The 60m wide and 4.52Km long road, is part of the Haile Garment outer ring road expansion project which connects feeder roads with Huajan Industry Zone, one of the privately owned parks in the country. The project is expected to be finalized within two years of commencement. Additionally, the road will have pedestrian walkways, and accommodate between 100mm and 120mm wider pipelines for electric, telecom and waste drainage. Costing the city’s administration US $4.4m a kilometer, it is the most expensive road project next to the Quality ring road interchange and Quality ring road to Qilinto projects costing US $8.2m, and US $8.1m cost a kilometer, respectively.
Kaytech Geosynthetics saves Strubens Valley site and geogrid at a new development Bidim geotextile in conjunction a construction site access road for the Chamberlain Hardware with TriAx, the innovative geogrid developed by Tensar International was economically and effectively Distribution Centre in Strubens (and supplied locally by Kaytech), solved with Kaytech’s geotextile Valley, Roodepoort. Eco-friendly were the products of choice to solve the problem. After discovering weak and waterlogged sub grade beneath a proposed temporary access road for plant and heavy machinery, Pierre Badenhorst Engineers approached Kaytech for a solution. The road was to be used for approximately six months and although minimal groundwater was discovered in initial geotechnical reports, significant damage was anticipated. A subsequent site inspection by Kaytech’s Technical marketing Eco-friendly Bidim geotextile in conjunction with TriAx, the innovative engineer, Byron de Cramer geogrid developed by Tensar International used for sub grade revealed that a crushed G5 material was available but with limited stabilization Urgent sub grade stabilization for
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information gleaned at the time, an allowable bearing capacity was determined from an assumed CBR of 3. It was decided that two different proposals were required; a 30 mm premix surface for the future parking area to be utilized by mainly light motor vehicles, and a concrete hard stand surface for the access road that in future, will form the permanent road for delivery vehicles. Due to concerns of damage to the access road during the 6 month construction and stocking period, it was decided to split this portion of the works into two phases. Tensar was consulted to provide indepth analysis using their software program, Tensar pave to analyze the project requirements.
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