A group from Canada’s University of British Columbia’s Mining Engineering faculty recently visited the Multotec Group manufacturing facilities in Spartan, just outside of Johannesburg in South Africa.

The visit for the students, from the graduating class of 2017, provided the ideal platform from which to interact with a leading South African manufacturer who supplies both capital equipment as well as consumables to the minerals processing sector.

Training facilitator at Multotec, Brent Combrink says that the modern manufacturing industry is often not understood by university graduates and students from tertiary institutions. For this reason, Multotec believes it is important to provide opportunities such as facility visits so students can see this side of the industry that they have studied.

“Exposure to real world manufacturing environments is a valuable tool and not only will it assist in consolidating what has been learnt at tertiary education centres, it will also allow students to understand the types of employment opportunities that this sector can offer,” Combrink says.

Trusted by the world’s mineral processing, power generation, petrochemical and water treatment industries, the Multotec Group helps mining giants as well as medium and small processing plants achieve their mineral processing goals.

The group’s facilities, spread over several properties, are equipped with state-of-the-art design technologies, including 3D prototyping, computational fluid dynamics, computer aided drawing and trajectory modelling among others. Combrink says visiting the various sections allowed students to get a real feel for the manufacturing sector.

“This type of visit is not unusual for Multotec and we host these types of facility tours for many of the South African universities and tertiary institutions as well as our customers,” he concludes.