Modern Mining July 2020

ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS

New energy, local focus in Zest WEG’s Africa drive With a staff compliment exceeding 720, Zest WEG is investing renewed effort in expanding its footprint across sub-Saharan Africa.

“ C elebrating Zest WEG’s 40 th anniversary this year, our passion for business in Africa underpins our continuous drive to expand our network of sub-Saharan African part- ners in support of our product and services, and we are excited about our contribution to Africa’s growth,” says Taylor Milan, Africa business devel- opment executive at Zest WEG – a member of the global WEG group. Milan highlights the company’s 40 years of suc- cess in Africa and says that apart from being an innovative product and service provider, Zest WEG has a substantial investment in local manufactur- ing and assembly facilities in South Africa. The company’s Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment status has formed the solid founda- tion that allowed for the expansion of its business

outside of South African borders, initially into the mining sectors of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “It is already a decade since we opened our branch in Accra, Ghana to support our growing installed base in West Africa. Through the process of identifying and partnering with local businesses across the region, we established a network of Zest WEG representatives in line with our product support and growth strategies. This investment now has us well positioned to access the growing opportunities in the West African mining sector,” he says. Localised support He emphasises that Zest WEG’s presence is increas- ingly focused on localised support to the end-user,

Taylor Milan, Africa business development executive, Zest WEG.

WEG mill motors at a gold mine in DRC.

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