The Manufacture and Wholesale of General Purpose Machinery
Government considers the machinery industry to be a key strategic sector for economic and employment growth, and the industry receives support through industrial policies. However, it had been facing significant headwinds even before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. The fundamental challenges facing the industry are primarily structural, and include the depressed economy, declining construction sector, import penetration, and a host of factors undermining South Africa’s manufacturing competitiveness.
Uncompetitive
There is a widespread perception that the domestic machinery sector’s relative competitiveness has been falling for a number of years, and that low domestic productivity and foreign import substitution represents an increasingly serious threat. This decline has been partly a result of the economy, exacerbated by rising costs and instability in the steel and electricity sectors, and most recently the pandemic. Government has turned to trade tariffs, local content regulation, and industrial policy master plans in an attempt to support manufacturing by boosting domestic demand. However, many players say that these measures alone cannot improve the sector’s prospects, and have sometimes actively contributed to the decline.
Agricultural Machinery
Trade in agricultural machinery continued to grow in 2020 as farmers remained active, and some attempted to mitigate worker disruption with more mechanisation. Increased on-farm mechanisation is likely to present opportunities for machinery suppliers in the future, although this may have dire consequences for agricultural employment.
Report Coverage
This report examines the capital equipment and general purpose machinery industry in South Africa and covers the manufacturing and wholesale of key products including mining and construction machinery, agricultural machinery, and pumps and valves. There is comprehensive information on the state and size of the sector, trade, corporate actions and developments. There are profiles of 236 companies including large domestic original equipment manufacturers such as Bell and ELB Equipment, specialised manufacturers such as mining equipment supplier Master Drilling and local subsidiaries or representatives of global players such as LG Electronics.
Table of Contents
Companies Mentioned
- AARD Mining Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Abacus Automation (Pty) Ltd
- ABB South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Acepak (Pty) Ltd
- ACTOM (Pty) Ltd
- Advanced Worx 112 (Pty) Ltd
- Aggreko Energy Rental South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- AHI Carrier South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Anstan Technologies CC
- Anton Paar Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Appleby Instrumentation (SA) (Pty) Ltd
- ARGO Industrial (Pty) Ltd
- ARI Flow Control Africa (Pty) Ltd
- ArmCoil Afrika (Pty) Ltd
- Atbro Systems CC
- Autopac Machinery Corporation CC
- Autotronix (Pty) Ltd
- Aveng Africa (Pty) Ltd
- AVK Holding Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
- AZ-Armaturen South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Babcock Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Baltimore Aircoil Company (S A) (Pty) Ltd
- Barloworld Ltd
- Beckhoff Automation (Pty) Ltd
- Bell Equipment Sales South Africa Ltd
- BHBW South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Blue Disa Trading 542 (Pty) Ltd
- Bobcat Equipment South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Braybar Pumps (Pty) Ltd
- Brehnor Pumps (Pty) Ltd
- Briggs and Stratton RSA (Pty) Ltd
- Burkert South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- C F W Industries (Pty) Ltd
- Caco Trading (Pty) Ltd
- Cape Centrifuge CC
- Cape Heat Exchange (Pty) Ltd
- Carl Zeiss (Pty) Ltd
- Cato Ridge Electrical Construction (Pty) Ltd
- Centa Fire (Pty) Ltd
- Channel Data (Pty) Ltd
- Cherangani Trade and Invest 6 CC
- Chigo Airconditioning CC
- Circuit Breaker Industries (Pty) Ltd
- Closeal Manufacturing CC
- CMTI Mining Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd
- CNH Industrial SA (Pty) Ltd
- Colcab (Pty) Ltd
- Columbit (Pty) Ltd
- Conlog (Pty) Ltd
- Consolidated Water Conditioning S A (Pty) Ltd
- Criterion Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Cross Fire Management (Pty) Ltd
- Cummins South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Daikin Air-Conditioning South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Defy Appliances (Pty) Ltd
- Dicla Farm and Seed (Pty) Ltd
- Diesel Electric Services (Pty) Ltd
- Diesel Gen Technologies CC
- Donaldson Filtration Systems (Pty) Ltd
- Dual Valve (Pty) Ltd
- Dupleix Liquid Meters (Pty) Ltd
- EIE Group (Pty) Ltd
- Eigenbau (Pty) Ltd
- ELB Group (Pty) Ltd
- Endress and Hauser (Pty) Ltd
- Engineco (Pty) Ltd
- Enserve Engineering Services (Pty) Ltd
- Epiroc South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- ERD Fab (Pty) Ltd
- Euro Automation Technology (Pty) Ltd
- Evapco South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Everflo (Pty) Ltd
- Federal-Mogul of South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Fermel (Pty) Ltd
- Festo (Pty) Ltd
- Flowserve South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- FLSmidth (Pty) Ltd
- Franke South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Franklin Electric (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd
- Free State Transformers (Pty) Ltd
- Friedshelf 559 (Pty) Ltd
- G C Tillage CC
- GEA Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Generator King (Pty) Ltd (The)
- Generator Logic Holdings (Pty) Ltd
- Genpower Electrical Wholesalers CC
- Geomechanics (Pty) Ltd
- Goscor (Pty) Ltd
- Grundfos (Pty) Ltd
- H C Heat Exchangers (Pty) Ltd
- H G Molenaar and Company (Pty) Ltd
- Harrack Automotive Air-Conditioning (Pty) Ltd
- HGF Plate Heat Exchangers (Pty) Ltd
- Hitachi Construction Machinery Southern Africa Co (Pty) Ltd
- Hoffmann Power (Pty) Ltd
- Honda Motor Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Howden Donkin (Pty) Ltd
- Hudaco Trading (Pty) Ltd
- Humulani Marketing (Pty) Ltd
- Hybrid Automation CC
- Ian Dickie and Company (Pty) Ltd
- Iled (Pty) Ltd
- Indecon (Pty) Ltd
- Indoco Remedies SA (Pty) Ltd
- Ingersoll-Rand Company South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Instrotech (Pty) Ltd
- Inta Safety Corporation (Pty) Ltd
- Intaka Tech (Pty) Ltd
- Invicta Holdings Ltd
- Invincible Valves (Pty) Ltd
- Iritron (Pty) Ltd
- J A Engineering Works (Pty) Ltd
- James Howden Holdings (Pty) Ltd
- John Deere (Pty) Ltd
- John Moffat Prolock (Pty) Ltd
- Joy Global (Africa) (Pty) Ltd
- Kelvion Thermal Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- KIC S A (Pty) Ltd
- Klinger (Pty) Ltd
- Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Kongskilde Industries South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- KSB Pumps and Valves (Pty) Ltd
- Kwatani (Pty) Ltd
- Lektratek Watertegnologie (Pty) Ltd
- LEMKEN South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- LG Electronics S A (Pty) Ltd
- Liebherr-Africa (Pty) Ltd
- LIXIL Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Longyear South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Macadams International (Pty) Ltd
- Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd
- Magetz Electrical CC
- MAHLE Behr South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Manitou Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Mass-Measuring Systems (Pty) Ltd
- Massmart Holdings Ltd
- Master Drilling Group Ltd
- Matase Industrial Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- Metso South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Micropower Modulek (Pty) Ltd
- MIP Process Technologies (Pty) Ltd
- Moore Process Controls (Pty) Ltd
- Multotec (Pty) Ltd
- Munters (Pty) Ltd
- N and Z Instrumentation and Control (Pty) Ltd
- National Security and Fire (Pty) Ltd
- New Way Power (Pty) Ltd
- Nidec Industrial Automation Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Novatek Drills (Pty) Ltd
- Orbach Agri (Pty) Ltd
- Paltechnologies (Pty) Ltd
- Pamodzi Unique Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- Pan Mixers South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Parker-Hannifin (Africa) (Pty) Ltd
- Pepperl-Fuchs (Pty) Ltd
- Piket Implemente (Pty) Ltd
- Pilot Crushtec International (Pty) Ltd
- Pipe Makers (Pty) Ltd
- Plasson SA (Pty) Ltd
- PREI Instrumentation (Pty) Ltd
- Prentec (Pty) Ltd
- Protea Electronics (Pty) Ltd
- Protherm Systems (Pty) Ltd
- PSV Holdings Ltd
- Radium Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- Rapid Allweiler Pump and Engineering Company (Pty) Ltd
- Reliable Transformers CC
- Revive Electrical Transformers (Pty) Ltd
- Rham Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Rothenberger Tools South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Royal HaskoningDHV (Pty) Ltd
- S A M Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- SafeQuip (Pty) Ltd
- Sasco Metrology Services (Pty) Ltd
- Scamont Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- Schneider Electric South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- SGB Smit Power Matla (Pty) Ltd
- Shantui Equipment Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Siemens (Pty) Ltd
- Sinetech (Pty) Ltd
- Smith Capital Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Smith Mining Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Smiths Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd
- Staalmeester Agricultural Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Stampede Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Stevens and Co (Pty) Ltd
- Structa Technology (Pty) Ltd
- Styria Stainless Steel Fabrication (Pty) Ltd
- Suden Procurement CC
- Sulzer Pumps (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd
- Superwatt (Pty) Ltd
- Systems Automation and Management (Pty) Ltd
- Tenova South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (Africa) (Pty) Ltd
- Tilghman Rotoblast Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Torre Holdings (Pty) Ltd
- Trafo Power Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- Trans Electron CC
- Transformer Manufacturers (Pty) Ltd
- Trek Scale Company (Pty) Ltd
- Tuning Fork (Pty) Ltd
- Turner Morris (Pty) Ltd
- Turnmill Proquip Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- Ultimate USBE Holdings (Pty) Ltd
- Universal Fans (Pty) Ltd
- V R Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- Valco Group SA (Pty) Ltd
- Valtrac (Pty) Ltd
- Van Reenen Steel (Pty) Ltd
- Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Vermeer Equipment Suppliers (Pty) Ltd
- Vincemus Investments (Pty) Ltd
- Vulcan Catering Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- Wacker Neuson (Pty) Ltd
- Walter Meano Engineering (Pty) Ltd
- Watson-Marlow Bredel SA (Pty) Ltd
- Weir Minerals Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Welkom Industrial Controls (Pty) Ltd
- WIKA Instruments (Pty) Ltd
- Wirtgen South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- WP Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd
- Wuhlf Equipment (Pty) Ltd
- XCMG South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Yokogawa South Africa (Pty) Ltd
- York International (SA)
- Zest WEG Group Africa (Pty) Ltd
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