MechChem Africa September 2017

BMG World revealed BMG, part of Invicta Holdings Limited, held two open days on September 14 and 15 to showcase and unveil its expanded and refurbished BMG World facility in Droste Park, Johannesburg. “The reveal of BMGWorld is the culmination of a consolidation and supply chain re-engineering strategy, which began nearly ten years ago,” says managing director, Gavin Pelser.

T he BMG World facility in Johan- nesburg consolidates the company’s efforts towards being a leading distribution and engineering facil- ity in Africa. “The company’s R400-million investment to upgrade the existing Droste Park facilities in Johannesburg transforms the facility into a leading-edge distribution centre and centralises functional and support operations onto a single site,” says Pelser. “Through this rationalisation initiative, BMG strives to achieve cost optimisation and to improve regionalised branch office systems, thereby enhancing customer service capabil- ity,” he says, adding further: “The BMGWorld facility reflects thecompany’s ability tosupply world class integrated engineering solutions throughout Africa.” BMG marked the official opening of the recently upgraded ‘BMGWorld’ distribution and engineering facility in Johannesburg by hosting a two-day event, which included site tours, product exhibits and working demonstrations showing how BMG inte- grates its vast product range and extensive technical services into tangible operational efficiencies. Thenewfacilities containover 308000m 3 of warehousing and more than 300 000

line items of product. This enables BMG to continue to provide high levels of operating efficiencies and todeliver services in linewith continued growthof the business. Customers now have greater than ever accessibility to BMG’s products, through more than 130 BMG branches and a wide distribution net- work in South Africa and across borders into Swaziland, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Ghana. BMG’s pledge to service excellence is achieved by constantly assessing market requirements and by expanding the com- pany’s solutions’ services, product ranges and branch networks to meet demand. The company has concluded a number of acqui- sitions and secured the exclusive supply, service and distribution agreements with some of the world’s most respected manu- facturers of quality branded engineering components. The range now encompasses bearings, seals and gaskets, power transmission com- ponents, drives, motors and materials han- dling components. Also in BMG’s extensive product portfolio are hydraulics from BMG Hydraulics and pneumatic systems, fasten- ers and tools, as well as valves, filtration and lubrication systems.

Reliability engineering BMG’s technical resources centre focuses on keeping plant in full productive output by ensuring mechanical reliability of plant and machinery. The technical resources team partnerseachcustomertoensuredependable solutions – fromthe initial design concept and specification all theway through tomanufac- turing, quality control, commissioning and support of equipment in use. BMGWorld is also home to field services. A team of mobile technicians provides spe- cialist skills, complementing the company’s workshop maintenance capability, to ensure highest-possible levels of plant reliability. Specialist services include installation, ad- justment and maintenance of components, shaft and pulley alignment, balancing, oil sampling and analysis and critical equipment inspections and lubrication schedules. BMG also offers technical supervision and on-site quality checks. Maintenance training and fault diagnosis also form an important part of BMG’s field services. BMG’s value-enhancing services

BMGWorld is also home to field services, a team of mobile technicians that provides specialist onsite servicing skills.

The expanded BMGWorld facility houses an advanced manufacturing centre and engineering workshop where complete drive trains can be assembled.

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