AFRICA NEWS
Innovation, empowerment, and value
The machines manufactured by Dezzi,
at its factory in Port Shepstone, include
articulated dump trucks, articulated
haulers, rigid hauler tractors, front-end
loaders, skidders, cane loaders, motor
graders, and three-wheel loggers.
These machines and various
customised earthmoving equipment are
earmarked for the cane, forestry, sugar,
plant hire, construction, building, mining,
and quarrying industries. “This tailor-made financial offering, terms
and conditions applicable, offers up to
prime -8% on certain machines. It will
be made available to Dezzi’s nationwide
dealers and branches, and presents
financial solutions to customers at
extremely competitive rates,” says Carl
Gutzeit, managing director of Desmond
Equipment SA.
"We’re excited to launch Dezzi Fin
to the marketplace in partnership
with Desmond Equipment SA. Our
competitive and flexible finance
offering has been developed with Dezzi
waste streams to recover chromium
oxide at product grades of over 40%,
according to Buang Moloto, managing
director at Linhleko.
“Our FLSmidth modular plant will
add value to the mine by re-treating
the current interstage chrome removal
spiral at no initial capital cost to the
client,” says Moloto. “As importantly,
the solution will have minimal
interruption to the mine’s process flow,
as no retrofitting of existing plant is
required. It is a completely separate
‘plug and play’ concept involving no or
very low downtime or risk to current
operations.”
He highlights that the partnership
between Linhleko and FLSmidth was
facilitated through the government’s
Mining Phakisa initiative that seeks to
build strategic collaborative relationships
between key stakeholders in the mining
cluster. Edwin Ritchken, the coordinator
of the Mining Phakisa, has affirmed that this partnership sets a new benchmark
in how a global original equipment
manufacturer can partner with a black-
owned company in a way that makes
commercial sense to all stakeholders
while also building an empowered South
African business on the cutting edge of
global technology and industry.
In the Sibanye-Stillwater deal,
Linhleko and FLSmidth conducted
metallurgical test work to prove the
concept for the client, while FLSmidth
financed the technology asset and
provides technical support.
“We value the confidence that
Sibanye-Stillwater has shown in us as an
emerging minerals business. Credit must
also be given to Sibanye for adopting
innovative technologies and acting as the
anchor customer for the business,” says
Moloto. “It has also been vital to have
on board a leading technology owner in
FLSmidth.”
Sibanye-Stillwater is one of the early
adopters of the Reflux Classifier modular
plant technology in the recovery of
chrome from a UG2 stream, according to
Osborn. The technology is successfully
operating at one other South African
mining operation, with a second about to
be exported abroad.
In line with its commitment to the
Mining Charter, FLSmidth is providing
ongoing enterprise development support
to Linhleko.
“We recognise an important
opportunity for supplier development
in this partnership,” says Osborn. “Our
contribution also focuses on Linhleko’s
potential to become a top-class metal
fabricator, and includes machinery and
guidance to improve aspects such as
quality control and safety.”
He emphasises that the Sibanye-
Stillwater contract was based on
a solid commercial foundation,
adding significant value to each of
stakeholders.
From left: Edwin Ritchken, Mining Phakisa coordinator; Refiloe Mankga, director
marketing at Linhleko Group; Buang Moloto, group chief executive of Linhleko Group;
Honourable Bulelani Mangwanise, deputy minister of the Department of Trade &
Industry; Manfred Schaffer, president of FLSmidth Mining Group; Honourable Godfrey
Oliphant, deputy minister of the Department of Mineral Resources; Deon de Kock,
president of FLSmidth sub-Saharan Africa & Middle East Region; Terence Osborn,
head of technical support & engineering sub-Saharan Africa & Middle East Region;
and David Kovarsky, senior vice-president chrome at Sibanye-Stillwater.
FLSmidth has joined forces with black-
owned metallurgical consultants Linhleko
Projects to extract chromite from waste
at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Rustenburg
Platinum Waterval chrome recovery plant.
The unique cooperation agreement,
launched in February, equips Rustenburg-
based Linhleko with guaranteed access
to FLSmidth’s leading Reflux Classifier
technology in a modular plant solution. An
outcomes-based contract with Sibanye-
Stillwater will allow the miner to improve
revenue through additional chromite
sales, without incurring capital costs.
“Driven by sustainable productivity
and innovative business models, the
partnership is executing a build, own,
operate, and transfer (BOOT) deal with
the end-client,” says Terence Osborn,
FLSmidth’s director for engineering and
technical support in sub-Saharan Africa
and the Middle East.
The Reflux Classifier has shown that
it can re-treat platinum interstage and
In-house finance from Dezzi
Desmond Equipment SA (Dezzi) has
launched its own financial programme. In
this milestone event, Dezzi is able to offer
financial solutions to its current and future
customers on its complete product range.
Distributor of the Dezzi CMI backhoe
loader and South African manufacturer of
Dezzi earthmoving equipment, the company
signed an agreement with Merchant West
at the head office in Port Shepstone on the
south coast of Kwazulu-Natal.
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MAY 2019
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