MechChem Africa January-February 2025

Allmech celebrates 30 years Established as a closed corporation in 1995, Allmech has grown into a leading South African manufacturer of boilers, and supplier of water treatment components.

W hile 2024 has brought its share of challenges, Allmech MD Lionel Maasdorp says it’s been a good year overall and the company is positioned well for 2025, which will mark 30 years in the business. “With the 2024 national election came hope for change, and change did happen,” he says. “It hasn’t been in all places as expected, but for us the best is the fact that we have not had loadshedding. Maasdorp says one of the focuses for 2024 was to expand into new indus tries and sales representative, Lynette Morrey, who headed up this initiative made significant progress, exceeding expectations in growing the client base. “We also had several firsts as a business, including importing new Runxin valves,” he says. As the only authorised South African agent for Runxin valves, Allmech was invited to visit the global Wenzhou Runxin Manufacturing Machine Co, headquartered in China, to expe rience the latest technological developments

and decide which new products to bring to the local market. They have since begun to stock an automatic pool filtration valve, an irrigation valve with rain sensor, and a leak detection shutoff valve. “Material shortages for manufacturing of some of the valves have delayed our imports from China by as much as five months, but we’ve been able to expand our client base in the water treatment division. Certain new industries have found some of our unique Runxin vales a great addition to their product offering, such as pool shops and pump supply companies.” Allmech has also managed to increase awareness of its range in areas including Namibia, the Western Cape, Free State and Mpumalanga, where previously its main focus was in Gauteng and KZN. “Our Runxin range now covers over 150 products,” says Maasdorp. This includes: • Water softener valves: to remove water hardness. • Filter control valves: for managing the flow

and filtration. • Electronic ceramic 2-way and 3-way ball valves for precise and complex flow control. • Electronic and manual ceramic ball valves. • Runxin repair and maintenance spares. • Irrigation valves for controlling flow to dif ferent zones of irrigation systems. • Leak detection valves. • Disk filters for removing impurities. • Domestic reverse osmosis (RO) systems for home use. Maasdorp says that as the company prepares to celebrate its 30 th anniversary, Allmech is embark ing on an expansion plan for 2025, which includes stocking an even wider range of the Runxin valves. “Who knows – it might even end up with us secur ingnewpremisestoaccommodateallofusandthe stock under one roof!” he says. www.allmech.co.za

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