Cold Link Africa June 2018 | Page 38

EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN Johnson Controls celebrates 50th anniversary in style Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) has been in South Africa for five decades and to celebrate, they held three events in April to share this moment with their customers, partners, and affiliates. he Johannesburg event took place on was showcased in-between wine tasting 3 April at the OR Tambo Premier Hotel, and enjoying appetising fine fare against with Durban on 4 April, and Cape Town the spectacular views from the ceiling-high following on 5 April. We attended both the Cape Town and Johannesburg events. The Durbanville Hills winery with its windows of the function room. From starting in 1968 as Mining and Industrial Air Conditioning (MIAC), the York spectacular views of Table Mountain, distributor, the company has expanded Robben Island, Table Bay, and the rolling as a JCI subsidiary, with company-owned hills of the Durbanville Wine Valley, was the operations in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape perfect setting for the 50th celebration of JCI Town, and Carletonville and vibrant trading South Africa in Cape Town. across Africa. The diversity of the global Johnson “It is not only time to celebrate 50 years Controls group in products, innovation, of doing business in South Africa, but also building services, plant management, time to thank our many clients for their fire protection, and the environmental strong support and trust placed in York to control of buildings, homes, and offices, provide solutions for their business. There are T By John Ackermann and Ilana Koegelenberg At the Cape Town 50th celebrations, from left: Claude Allain (JCI, Dubai), Jeff Williams (JCI, United Kingdom), and Neil Cameron (JCI, Johannesburg).