Construction World March 2022

STEEL CONSTRUCTION

C.I.S ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES DIVISION NOW FULLY OPERATIONAL

C.I.S Industrial Structures was formed in 2019 as a separate division of CIS Engineering. The Division is focused on fabrication of industrial structures for the building, mining, mineral beneficiation, petrochemical, chemical and water industries. Christo Marais, Managing Director of C.I.S Engineering says that the creation of this focused division has been extremely successful and has already resulted in the completion of several major projects. The division specialises in steel structures in the following broad categories

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1. Building structures C.I.S Industrial Structures has successfully manufactured a variety of building structures which include: • Complex residential structures • Wide span large warehousing • Factory buildings and extensions including crane support structures It is worth mentioning that the structure for House Midax, pictured in 1 above, received a recommendation from SAISCE. 2. Process support structures Mining and chemical process plant inevitably require steel supporting structures. The division has successfully completed several such projects recently and a covering structure installed at a vanadium mine is depicted in 2 above. 3. Process vats and tanks The division has successfully manufactured welded steel tanks and bins for the mineral beneficiation industry. They recently completed a mega project with sister company Turnmill Proquip for the manufacturing of four leach vats for a vanadium mine (picture 3).

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beams, sieves and shaker structures and conveyor structures. Depicted in 4 is the steel structure of shaker used in the mining industry. 5. Piping and ducting The Division has successfully manufactured non- pressurised, large diameter piping and ducting to typical high welding requirements such as AWS D1.1 (picture 5).

4. Mechanical equipment structures C.I.S Industrial structures manufactures a variety of mechanical equipment structures such as crane

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