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Local branch helps global company grow

PAUL HEYNS Altaaqa Global Southern Africa continuously communicates with potential customers and local authorities, strengthening the company’s reach in the Southern Africa region

TEMPORARY POWER PLANTS The plants have the capacity to bridge the gap in electricity supply wherever and whenever it is needed in Africa

5th December 2014

By: Pimani Baloyi

Creamer Media Writer

  

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Temporary power solutions provider Altaaqa Global says its Southern Africa branch, which recently opened in Johannesburg, South Africa, has expanded the company’s reach in the temporary power supply market, especially in the mining and infrastructure construction industries.

Altaaqa Global CAT Rental Power marketing manager Robert Bagatsing tells Engineering News that the office, which facilitates the company’s operational expansion in Southern Africa, has established relationships with various stakeholders in the region, paving the way to create opportunities.

Altaaqa Global Southern Africa has a client base in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. There is an active mining industry in many of these countries, with various infrastructure development projects also in progress.

Bagatsing says the company aims to be the most preferred temporary power solutions provider by 2022.

“Our Southern Africa office has brought the company and its regional customers together. It has enabled us to introduce the latest temporary power generation technology to the greater Southern Africa. We are now able to constantly meet with potential customers, visit prospective work sites and engage with the different regional governments.”

Bagatsing adds that the company ’s prospects in the region are gaining traction, and its team in Southern Africa “is growing and continuously communicating with potential customers and the relevant authorities”.

Altaaqa Global Southern Africa territory manager Paul Heyns adds that, as a Southern Africa distributor of US-based construction and mining equipment manufacturer Caterpillar’s CAT temporary power generation products, the company offers the Southern Africa market state-of-the-art interim power systems as support to electricity and other sources of energy.

“During our work in Southern Africa, we realised that one of the foremost problems for remote areas is the lack of power transmission and distribution infrastructure, so we invested most of our resources in research and development . . . to allow for the development of products that mitigate this challenge.

“As a result, no matter how far-flung an area is and no matter the presence or absence of power infrastructure, Altaaqa Global can provide the appropriate solution . . . and custom-design solutions for our clients, with due consideration of their specific conditions and challenges,” Heyns elaborates.

Further, Altaaqa Global leverages Caterpillar’s extensive network of distributors and partners. This means that the companies have access to the support of more than 1 700 partners globally, he details.

Heyns says the Johannesburg branch has also enabled the company to infuse local flavour into its operations and product offerings in the region. The office has further allowed Altaaqa Global to remain informed of local practices and processes, and has given the company an edge, as it “fully understands customers’ requirements” and “navigates them through the different processes necessary for projects to advance.”

Product Portfolio
Bagatsing explains that the standby power products that Altaaqa Global offers Southern Africa include power generators that do not need substations and can be connected directly to a power grid.

The latest offering in the gas-powered temporary power plants is the XQ1475G, which Altaaqa Global designs and installs. The gas-generating rental power plant is mostly used for industrial peak shaving, grid stability and as supplemental power for permanent power plants. The plants have been designed for maximum performance on low-pressure pipeline natural gas, he adds.

The XQ1475G is dependable, fuel-efficient and uses a G3516C island-mode, compact and four-stroke-cycle gas engine. The temporary power plant meets most global emissions requirements down to 250 mg/Nm3 mono-nitrogen oxides level without after treatment.

Bagatsing mentions that the company’s temporary power plants have proven to be even more ideal in the Southern Africa region and the company aims to expand the Johannesburg regional office, concluding that “while permanent facilities are being built across Africa, temporary power plants have the capacity to bridge the gap in electricity supply wherever and whenever it is needed . . . ”

Edited by Megan van Wyngaardt
Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

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