OVERVIEW
Manufacturing Government wants to promote township and rural manufacturing.
SECTOR INSIGHT FLSmidth has doubled the size of its Delmas facility.
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pumalanga has a diverse manufacturing sector. The Lowveld area supports food and beverage enterprises and timber processing. Approximately 70% of jobs in the manufacturing sector are in food and forestry. Standerton has textile-manufacturing capacity in the form of Standerton Mills. It is also home to several plants that use local raw materials: Nestlé has an infant-cereal manufacturing plant, RCL runs farms in the Carolina district and Early Bird is prominent. McCain and PepsiCo (Simba) have plants that use the province’s plentiful potato crop. TSB Sugar runs two large mills and produces fruit juices through a subsidiary company. Nelspruit is the centre of the province’s foodprocessing cluster. The presence of Ferrometals (a Samancor company) in Emalahleni means that Mpumalanga is an important place for metals and machinery manufacturing. It produces charge chrome and is one of the largest ferrochome plants in the world. Joint ventures such as Crometals (Pty) Ltd, Poschrome (Pty) Ltd and Elkem Ferroveld operate from the site. Most manufacturing in the province takes place in the Highveld where there is access to chrome, steel and coal. In the course of an upgrade, FLSmidth has also doubled the size of its MPUMALANGA BUSINESS 2019/20
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Delmas Supercentre to 10 500m². The company makes equipment for materials handling and mineral processing. The centre also hosts a training facility and handles repairs for customers. In Middelburg, Thos Begbie makes a variety of products at its heavy engineering works. Graphite Freezeline Solutions opened a new graphite facility within the Begbie property in 2018. Thos Begbie has announced an expansion into Zambia, where it will service and repair furnace components. Middelburg-based Columbus Stainless is a major supplier of stainless-steel products to the domestic and international market. About 25% of the company’s production is sold domestically. The Manganese Metal Company in Nelspruit is the largest producer of pure electrolytic manganese metal in the world. Delta EMD, in the same town, is one of the biggest producers of electrolytic manganese dioxide, a material used in the manufacture of alkaline batteries. The chemicals and liquid fluids complex of Sasol at Secunda is a vital component of
