Sector focus
  The group’s capabilities have been refined to deliver comprehensive infrastructure solutions in sectors with high potential. The next few spreads outline the group’s capabilities in its target sectors.

Industrial

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Highveld induction furnace – South Africa

Installation of a furnace and the supply of structural steel, handrailing, grating, piping and electrical and instrumentation works.

Emirates Aluminium Smelter – UAE

Six packages ranging from a power plant and sub-station building to an anode bake furnace. We also constructed materials handling infrastructure.

Matola cement mill – Mozambique

Demolition of the existing concrete structures, construction of new civil structures, installation of the mill and associated items, structural steel, mechanical items and piping.

Sasol FT wax expansion – South Africa

Demolition of existing structures and the re-routing of services. Construction of bulk earthworks, access roads, underground drainage works, structural foundations and building extensions.

  Sappi Tugela Mill – South Africa

Supply of boilermaking, piping and mechanical fabrication and welding services to support the Sappi mill’s engineering services and production maintenance units. This is an evergreen core contract established in December 1999.


Key competencies

Brown arrow Multi-disciplinary industrial plant constructor
Brown arrow Factory layout design and build
Brown arrow Construction services, including civils, building, mechanical and electrical works
Brown arrow Resident multi-disciplinary maintenance and shutdown services contractor
Brown arrow Supply of construction materials
Brown arrow Supply of construction steel

Key differentiators

Beige arrow Track record in civils, heavy mechanical, electrical and piping construction and services

Aluminium, steel, zinc and gold smelting
Petrochemical
Sugar
Paper
Cement

  CASE STUDY
   
  Industrial services contracts

    The group is the largest multidisciplinary industrial services contractor in South Africa  

Group Five Engineering and Construction Services (E&CS) is the largest multi-disciplinary industrial services contractor of its kind in South Africa. It provides a broad spectrum of specialist contracting services primarily to the oil and gas, pulp and paper, sugar and chemical industries. Services include preventative maintenance studies and cost compilation, maintenance, turnarounds, brownfield plant upgrades, petrochemical technology packaging, storage tank refurbishment and repair, as well as construction and maintenance services.

Based on the specialist expertise and onerous safety and quality control systems that are required in the industrial services market, the business also contracts as a specialist oil and gas and petrochemical constructor of larger contracts in collaboration with Group Five Civil Engineering and Group Five Projects. Recent contracts include the new multi-products pipeline pump stations and terminals for Transnet.

Core maintenance contracts include the Engen Refinery since 1996, the Chevron Refinery since 2006, the Sappi Tugela Mill since 1999, Huntsman Tioxide since 2003 and Shell depots since 2009.

Turnaround and shutdown experience includes Chevron refinery turnarounds since 2007, Sapref refinery turnarounds in 2004 and 2009, Engen refinery turnarounds since 1997, the South African Oil Refinery turnaround in 2009 and Sappi shutdowns since 1999.

The group’s experience demonstrates its ability to support infrastructure from inception through construction to operations and maintenance.