Construction World July 2017

When was Thusanane Construction Suppliers established? Thusanane Construction Suppliers was registered on 27 May 2011, yet only started operating on 1 August 2011. Who are the main role players? The founding member of Thusanane is Lukia Svoronos. How big is the company? The company is a small entity with the emphasis on empowering women in the industry to become role models for other young women wanting to get into construction. What is the company’s core business? It supplies expansion joint formers, polystyrene sealer strips and insulation to the construction industries. We also provide other consumables as required by our customers. What is the company’s unique selling point? Thusanane values customers and is customer centric with the customers’ success at heart. Our professional and personal Towards repeat business Construction World spoke to Thusanane Construction Suppliers about its operations and the products that it supplies to major developers. What is your BBBEE status? Thusanane is a Level 4 company as we are an EME.

ABOVE: Thusanane Construction Suppliers supplied EPS polystyrene and polyethylene joint formers to the Time Square project in Menlyn.

approach with our customers affords us their repeat business as we value their confidence in our products and services which we provide without exception. Who are your major clients? WBHO/Group Five/Steffanutti Stocks/Mota-Engil/MT Developments/Barrow Construction are just a few of our clients and our focus is to grow this list to incorporate the developing construction companies which are being groomed within the BBBEE sphere. What are some of the projects that you have recently worked on? Projects include: Standard Bank Rosebank, Discovery building in Sandton, Time Square in Menlyn, Pretoria, Fourways Mall, Oxglen Office Park and Eastgate Shopping Centre. What did you supply for these projects? Expansion joint formers and EPS Polystyrene, the alternative to softboard sealerstrip. Do you offer ‘green products’? We offer green product which is manufactured to the EPSASA specification and is locally manufactured and proudly South African. What products did you supply for the Times Square Casino project? EPS polystyrene and polyethylene joint formers. The project is currently in progress. 

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CONSTRUCTION WORLD JULY 2017