South African vibrating equipment specialist and OEM, Joest has supplied most of South Africa’s major mines with custom built vibrating feeders and screens, with a significant machine population operating in the heavy and precious metal and minerals field.

Joest has successfully grown into one of the largest South African owned and operated OEMs of vibration equipment. The South African Joest operation has been fully independent for 25 years and shares no links with the German JÖST. The company prides itself on being the only Joest OEM in South Africa that designs all equipment in-house and offers a product range that is wholly South African in terms of both design and manufacture.

Joest recently fielded an order for an additional two large dewatering machines from a mineral sands operation on the Western Cape coast. Newly appointed CEO Derrick Alston says this is an extremely unusual application in terms of the immense throughput the screens have to handle. The new units will be delivered in February 2014.

“Joest has supplied this operation since 1998 and there are currently 12 of these large dewatering screens installed,” he adds. “It was amazing to see, during a recent site visit, just how efficiently these units are still performing under such extremely difficult circumstances.”

Commenting on the company’s prospects for 2014, Joest MD Kim Schöpflin says the outlook is extremely positive, with continued growth expected in line with the robust year-on-year growth Joest has experienced for the past 38 years.

“Our sights are set on steady expansion further into Africa, in order to take advantage of the massive potential on this continent for our products,” she says. “Historically, we’ve been strong in the SADC region, but we believe we can also achieve similar success beyond this region.

“In the longer term, our objective is to expand the vibrating machinery arena into complementary areas of the process equipment field, including fine aperture size screening. However, our core company values of service, quality and technology will continue to underpin our existing offering to our customers in the mining industry. Joest is known for this high level of service and it will remain our highest commitment as we approach our fourth decade of operations.”

Achieving a high BBBEE rating is an integral component of Joest’s strategy and current BBBEE efforts focus on employment policies, procurement and developing in-house skills, areas in which the company has already made considerable progress. Joest is also positioning itself to align with the requirements of the Mining Charter with the objective of achieving compliance by the 2014 deadline.

About Joest
Joest South Africa is an independently financed and controlled operation. Joest (Pty) Ltd was originally registered in 1976 as a subsidiary of the German company JÖST GmbH & Co. In 1989 Gunter Vogel, now Joest South Africa’s chairman, purchased Joest and successfully integrated local South African technology into the original German designs to boost the equipment’s efficiencies in the harsh African mining environment. Under Vogel’s guidance, the company has grown into one of the largest suppliers and manufacturers of custom designed vibratory equipment solutions. Today Joest prides itself on being an OEM that designs all its equipment in-house.