Clients
Our clients’ business is of great importance and we endeavour to meet those needs by being professional, reliable and enthusiastic about their business. Clients will benefit from our combined skills in many areas and through a consultative process we can provide specialist advice in terms of project or contract work undertaken by us. By using available recourses, our people, technical information and infrastructure, we endeavour to assist companies in the pursuit of quality and excellent service delivery, ensuring the best operation efficiencies. We understand the changing business environment and as a company, our mission is to keep abreast and lake advantages of technological innovations within the construction discipline.
Our current client base includes:
- Eskom
- Various Mines
- Private customers
- Town Councils
- Transalloys
- Samancor Ferrometals
- Actom
- Glencore
Health and safety
Our commitment to health and safety is designed to safeguard our employees engaged in business on behalf of our company or any other person working with us against injury or risk to health.
- Health and safety takes priority over short cuts for our company.
- We endeavour to reduce all possibilities of accidents occurring.
- We commit ourselves to complying with all health and safety legislation at all times.
- We endeavour to minimize negative impact on environment.
- Our management is actively involved in the promotion of health and safety programs in the company by doing the following:
- Taking all reasonable steps to ensure an effective health and safety program.
- Providing our staff with the necessary protective clothing and equipment.
- Providing safety training to our staff.
- Promote awareness of health and safety among our staff.
- Provision of effective guidance and supervision of all our projects.
- Comply to risk assessment practices at all times.
We pride ourselves in terms of providing an enabling environment for communication on health and safety issues. This is also coupled with a collaborative process with the affected communities in which we operate on social awareness programs (providing information of both the benefits and dangers of electricity).
Core Business
Afropulse core business can be broadly described as: Continuously improve upon and optimise construction processes, substation commissioning, transformer commissioning and maintenance, and electrical work in electrical and electricity sectors.
OUR FIELD OF EXPERTISE:
Switchgear
- The erection and commissioning of new and refurbished switchgear.
- Switchgear maintenance from 22kV indoor up to 400 kV outdoor.
- Faultfinding on switchgear.
- Investigating switchgear failures.
McGraw Edison and Nu-Lec Reclosers (Pole mounted breakers)
- Supply, erection and commissioning of new reclosers.
- Maintenance of 6.6kV, 11kV, 22kV and 33kV units.
- Repairing of reclosers and modifications.
- Repairing of Sectionilizers.
- Programming and repairing of KFE, Form 4 c and Form 5 controls.
- Faultfinding on reclosers.
Isolators (Wods, Sods and Mods)
- Supply, erection and commissioning of new units.
- Maintenance and repair of 22kV up to 400 kV units.
- Conduct contact resistance tests.
Power system protection:
- Power system protection settings
- Protection relay testing & commissioning
- Maintenance on protection relays
- All secondary plant testing & commissioning
- Commissioning of Transformer & Feeder bays
- Updating of protection drawings.
- Cap banks and power factor corrections.
Primary plant testing:
- Testing of Power Transformers
- Testing of Current Transformers
- Testing of Voltage Transformers
- Testing of NEC & NECR
- Testing of Voltage Regulators
- Testing of Earth Mats
- Insulation Testing
- Cable Testing and Jointing + Terminations.
All tests carried out are done with state of the art equipment, namely Omicron 256 for all secondary plant equipment and CPC 100 for all Primary equipment.
Supply of various chemicals:
- SABS approved electrical cleaner SANS 1365
- Heavy Duty Supreme Degreaser
- CTX Sliding Contact Grease
- Supplier of all bearings and seals