Company Announcement - In April 2013 Tsogo Sun announced refurbishment plans for their Gold Reef City Casino and Hotel, located in the south of Johannesburg. Ocon Brick, South Africa’s leading clay stock brick manufacturer, was contracted to supply clay stock bricks for the revamping of the casino, as well as the upgrades to the entertainment and restaurant facilities and have to date supplied 1.4 million clay stock bricks.

Shaun Hugo, Quantity Surveyor, Building North at WBHO commented “The refurbishment and upgrading process for Gold Reef City is quite extensive, with the project running from March 2014 through to November 2015. Obviously, renovations on a project of this size had to take into account the impact upon the resort’s patrons who would still be visiting the resort throughout. It is crucial that interruptions to the casino and hotel’s normal activities should be kept to a minimum, therefore our choice of suppliers had to be reliable”.

“Ocon Brick was chosen because of their reputation for a reliable service and performance. Their stock supply, technical support and delivery scheduling has been extremely satisfactory and true to their reputation within the building industry, they supply the quantities, and quality, of bricks that we require on time” said Hugo.

Mariana Lamont, Regional Sales Manager for Ocon Brick said “We are pleased to have established this professional reputation, especially concerning our reliability. This element of service is all important to our customers and we are aware of the need to ensure that our customers receive their stock as agreed, that is why we keep our manufacturing plant fully operational at all times – we never run out of stock as a result “.

Ocon Brick clay stock bricks offer average brick strengths of 21 MPa, with 11% water absorption and an average mass of 2.6 kg. They have been utilised on golf estates, private and commercial estates as well as for interior purposes. They can be plastered or used in an unplastered finish. Complementing the clay face brick, is the Ocon Brick clay semi-face brick range which is hard wearing and a cost effective paving solution choice with a brick strength of 30 MPa with similar water absorption and mass as for the clay stocks.