Company Announcement - Dehn Africa (Pty) Ltd, the local subsidiary of Germany-based lightning and surge protection, earthing components and safety equipment manufacturer, DEHN + SÖHNE, officially launched the DEHNacademy to local partners and the media at its second annual partner awards event.

DEHNacademy will offer several learning modules, including e-learning, classroom training, customer seminars based on the SANS 62305 part 1-4 standards for lightning and surge protection, quarterly accredited CDP (Continuing Professional Development) seminars, market specific workshops, covering the design of lightning and surge protection applications in different sectors, and accredited installer training and product training.

In addition, Dehn Africa is working closely with several South African universities to ensure that lightning protection is covered within their curricula. The organisation took the opportunity to hand over the DEHN Lightning Protection Guide, known globally as the trademark for practice-oriented technical literature in the fields of lightning and surge protection for buildings, installations and systems, to Wits University at the recent event.

Furthermore, Dehn Africa confirmed that, as part of the DEHNacademy offering, it would provide “holiday work” to four fourth year university students, run summer and winter schools for third and fourth years, and has also established an annual “Best Student Award”, where one top student per year will be awarded with a year-long employment contract with the company.

For more information, please contact Hano Oelofse at hano.oelofse@dehn-africa.com.

The market leader DEHN, a globally active family-owned electrotechnical company with about 1700 employees worldwide, offers innovative products and solutions as well as comprehensive services in the field of surge protection, lightning protection and safety equipment. DEHN focuses on the protection of system and building technology, the transportation, telecommunication and process sector, photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, etc. The company's continuous growth is based on more than 100 years of tradition and experience as well as highest quality standards and consistent customer and market orientation throughout the world.