The client is the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals, with operations across the entire value chain from producer to producer and a complete range of PGMs.
Resource Category: Case studies
Client Reference | Mining and Minerals | Platinum | Partial Discharge on Compressors
The client operates throughout the entire value chain to produce a full range of PGMs, including platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, and osmium, with various sites assigned to each production stage.
Client Reference | Manufacturing | Steel | Online Assessment of an MV Compressor Motor
The client is the largest steel producer in Sub-Saharan Africa and a leader in major global markets, including construction, automation, and packing.
Client Reference | Oil and Gas | Gasses | Partial Discharge on MV Motors
The client provides engineering services and a focused range of performance-enhancing atmospheric gases, welding, safety products, and LPG to valued customers.
Client Reference | Manufacturing | Smelting | IIoT Continuous Monitoring
Our client operates a PGM group smelter situated outside of Polokwane. The current infrastructure comprises a 68MW furnace fed by 33kV single-core cables.
Client Reference | Mining and Minerals Coal | Partial Discharge | MV Terminations
The client is one of the leading coal export terminals in the world. It was established in 1976 with an original capacity of 12 million tons per annum (“Mt/a”).
Client Reference | Renewables Wind Farms | Online and Offline Monitoring
Martec conducted comprehensive online Partial Discharge (PD) and Offline (VLF, Tan Delta and PD) assessments at two wind farms in southern Africa.
Case Study | Mining | Tronox | Offline Assessment of 33kV Cables
Our client is a vertically integrated producer of titanium dioxide and inorganic chemicals. This is achieved bymining and processing titanium ore, zircon and other materials.
Client Reference | Manufacturing | Mechanical Condition Assessment on a Flour Mill
A specialised flour milling operation realised the need for reliability improvement due to irregular maintenance expenditure and unplanned breakdowns. The plant produces high quality flour for the baking and commercial sectors, and with the growing demand for flour during Covid conditions, the plant could not produce sufficient product to meet demand due to plant unavailability.
Client Reference | Manufacturing | Asset Condition Assessments Complementing Plant Acquisition Due Diligence
An independent consortium venturing in a new opportunity to manufacture oil and protein adopted technical reliability as one of their due diligence checklist items to support their offer to purchase an ageing processing plant.