Modern Mining August 2022

ELECTRA MINING PREVIEW

Integrated Pump Technology eyes Southern African market growth

Participation at Electra Mining Africa 2022 will serve to underpin Integrated Pump Technology’s drive to increase its footprint in Africa. According to GM Jordan Marsh, in the less than 10 years since the company secured the Grindex pump distributorship for Southern Africa it has already significantly increased the product’s installed footprint in South Africa and made good inroads into Southern Africa.

Integrated Pump Technology will be showcasing the latest in the range of Grindex pumps. South Africa as well as Zambia and the DRC. “There is a large installed base of Grindex pumps in Africa and, with the brand well-recognised, we have been looking at individual region and country demands as well as available partners to ensure that we have a distributor in place with the requisite depth of knowledge of that particular country’s mar ket requirements, who can speak the local language and also has the necessary technical background,” says Marsh. Integrated Pump Technology recently appointed new distributors in Zambia and the DRC, countries which the IPT considers to be vital markets for the dewatering solutions that Grindex pumps offer. “Our ability to rapidly service the market from our stockholding of Grindex products recently received a significant boost with access to additional capi tal, and this has allowed us to increase the Grindex pump stockholding at our head office in Boksburg,” Marsh concludes. The company will showcase the Grindex Mega 90 dewatering pump as well as the Grindex Bravo 900 slurry pump at Electra Mining. 

S trengthening its distributor footprint in Africa will give ready access to both product and support to existing and potentially new custom ers in the regions served by Integrated Pump Technology, which include all countries bordered by

The Grindex range of drainage pumps handles water with abrasive solids up to 12 mm in size.

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