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AFRICA NEWS Crane & Hoist Equipment SA enters African tower crane market There is a new player in Africa’s sub-Saharan market for lifting solutions, as experienced experts join forces in Crane & Hoist Equipment SA to offer a range of tower crane sourcing, refurbishment, sales, and site management services. “Our team has many years of experience in this industry is for lifting equipment to be fit- for-purpose,” says Crane & Hoist Equipment SA sales director, Louw Smit. The company leverages its extensive supply networks locally and abroad to source used cranes, but also has close links with and we know how important it From left: Danie Roos (operations director), Brenden Crous (managing director), and Louw Smit (sales director) of Crane & Hoist Equipment SA. original equipment suppliers for cranes at this stage,” says refurbishment, and to advise extensive experience in cross- new units where required. managing director Brenden customers on the most cost- border work, where they are Crous. “We have strong effective ways of getting the familiar with the challenging been marked by tough trading technical capacity to assess most from their equipment.” logistics and other hurdles conditions, so many contractors the condition of used cranes, are opting for refurbished tower to manage their repair and “The past few years have The team’s full project capability is enhanced by its involved in working in various parts of Africa. Goscor Cleaning offers latest Italian technology for industrial vacuum cleaning The latest Italian technology for lowest total cost of ownership,” The 50mm-diameter suction nylon one, providing a three-micro industrial vacuum cleaning is Esterhuizen comments. inlet, with 50/38mm hose filtration efficiency rate. The wet The Delfin Mistral 202 connectors, makes it possible to kit has a floating device to protect Equipment (GCE), part of the DS Dustop has two bypass vacuum dust and solid material the motor against damage from Goscor Group. The Mistral 202 is motors, using carbon brushes simultaneously. liquids, foam, and solid objects. In specifically designed for dust and and operated by independent The Delfin Mistral 802 Wet & solid material, while the Mistral switches, and is placed inside Dry has a dust kit comprising a solid material from obstructing 802 is a wet-and-dry unit. a sturdy, noise-reducing plastic double bag-type filter, with an the floating device, or foam from casing. The motor head has been internal polyester and an external penetrating the motor. Italian manufacturer Delfin is a global leader in industrial designed to convey the exhaust vacuum cleaners and suction air towards the ground, to avoid units. The brand forms part the user being affected by any of GCE’s product offering for dust. The filter is a high-surface standard industrial vacuuming, in conical cartridge (30 000cm 2 ), addition to specialist solutions for with a one-micron filtration hazardous environments, GCE efficiency rate. national sales manager Peter Esterhuizen explains. “Our years of experience addition, the nylon filter prevents The new Dustop filter-cleaning system allows the user to clean the filter efficiently and easily in industrial vacuum cleaning, by simply pulling up the manual combined with the backup flap on the chamber five times and quality of the Delfin brand, while the vacuum is working. places us in the position of being This simple operation maintains a leading solutions provider in maximum filtration capacity this niche sector, offering the and suction performance. available from Goscor Cleaning The latest Italian technology for industrial vacuum cleaning is available from Goscor Cleaning Equipment. MARCH 2018 5