Altech upgrades set-top-box facility as African demand grows
The expansion and upgrading of set-top-box (STB) developer and manufacturer Altech UEC’s KwaZulu-Natal manufacturing facility to cater for an expected increase in demand for terrestrial STBs were starting to “pay off”, Altech Multimedia group MD Danie du Toit said this month.
The R60-million revamp resulted in the record manufacture of 39 660 STBs – or one STB off the production line every 2.2 seconds – on February 25, marking the group’s “best [production] day to date”.
The month of February also marked the production of Altech’s twenty-millionth STB.
“This is an important milestone in the history of Altech UEC since we first started manufacturing set-top boxes back in 1993,” Du Toit said.
The group’s seven-million-a-year STB production capacity enables Altech UEC to meet current and future demand.
Africa remained Altech’s biggest market on the back of digital terrestrial television migration projects currently under way across the continent.
“Africa is digitising at an increasing rate, with the sub- Saharan market alone estimated to be in excess of 60-million STBs,” said the company.
Altech’s expansion had also created an additional 120 specialised and sustainable jobs, bringing the number of people employed directly at its manufacturing operations to more than 700.
“In addition to this, we have a global design and development team of about 130 engineers,” Du Toit concluded.
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