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FITTING THOUGHT 1 Have you booked your holiday? The headline is correct — time flies. We say it every year, but it’s true. The December holiday is a few weeks away. What a frightening thought — this is the time of year when we look at budgets, goals, and projects and realise that we are facing a bottleneck of deadlines from now until the annual shutdown. Apart from business, we are rushing around to see if our favourite camping spot or hotel still has room for us, followed by booking flights and looking forward to a well-deserved break. With this comes another message, which we might have forgotten: Time is precious. Have you made time this year to keep a balance between work, family, and relaxation, or has it all been about chasing the deadlines, meeting customer requirements, and fighting the traffic to be on time? Take a minute and think about what you are going to regret not doing. Then learn a lesson from it and take it with you when you plan your diary/budgets for 2019. Time that was definitely not wasted was the time spent at PLUMBDRAIN Africa 2018, which took place at Nasrec in August. Proudly presented by Interact Media Defined, publishers ISSN 1812 - 1705 Audit Bureau of Circulations Apr - Jun 2018 Controlled free distribution         3575 EDITOR Cherry Ellis • [email protected] CONTENT MANAGER Benjamin Brits • [email protected] WRITER Ntsako Khosa • [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Patrick Gordon, Chris Kyle, Dikeledi Molatoli, Ann K Ryan, Crystal Komanchuk, Jennifer Cisneros SUBEDITOR Elaine Enslin OPERATIONS MANAGER Chantelle van Deventer • [email protected] DESIGN/LAYOUT Selina Morulane • [email protected] NATIONAL ADVERTISING SALES Director: Dale Macnamara • [email protected] External sales: Marcus Pearson• [email protected] Process coordinator: Estelle Thurtle •[email protected] www.plumbingafrica.co.za of Plumbing Africa, the show was co-located with Interbuild. Visitors and exhibitors alike were pleased with the outcome. Read more about this in our review on page 60. Breaking news — and remember, you heard it from Plumbing Africa first — is a labelling scheme between IOPSA/PIRB and members of the industry, which is being piloted as a separate objective and independent body to get products approved. Read about this on page 5. In this edition of Plumbing Africa, we also look at interesting projects for wine farms — read about this on page 58. Just a reminder: this is your magazine, so send us your news and events at [email protected]. Visit our social pages on Facebook @plumbingonline and on Twitter @plumbingonline Cherry HEAD OFFICE Interact Media Defined (Pty) Ltd 13A Riley Rd, Bedfordview 2007 PO Box 695 Edenvale 1610 Tel: +27 (0) 11 579 4940 • Fax: +27 (0) 11 450 1920 Email: [email protected] FINANCIAL MANAGER Laetitia Arnott • [email protected] MANAGING DIRECTOR Richard Bicker Caarten • [email protected] OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL DIRECTOR Sean Macnamara, CA (SA) • [email protected] OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE • Institute of Plumbing South Africa (IOPSA) • Sani`ter Africa, Plumbdrain Africa • Polymer Hot & Cold Technology Group (PHACT) • Plumbing Design Association (PDA) PRINTER Typo Colour Printing Specialists Cnr Bezuidenhout & Beaufort St, Troyeville 2094 Tel: +27 (0) 11 402 3468/9 DELIVERY/SUBSCRIPTIONS [email protected] DISTRIBUTION/MAILING CAB Holdings (Pty) Ltd 1 Trein Street, The Gables, Cleveland, 2001 Tel: +27 (0) 11 615 6572 ADVISORY COMMITTEE • Andrew Camphausen • Chris Kyle • Evert Swanepoel • Francisco Habib • Gary Chandler • Lawrence Benatar • Steve Brown DISCLAIMER While every reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure the accuracy of the advice and information given, neither the editor, publisher, proprietor, staff nor any official body represented or published in this issue, will accept responsibility for any damages, loss, injuries or false claims that may arise or be made in the content. Disclaimers by individual companies are hereby overridden. Reproduction of any of the content is expressly forbidden in terms of the Copyright Act of 1987 with all amendments. All requests to reproduce must be made in writing to the Publisher and such confirmation must be given in writing before proceeding. A copy of where the reproduction was published must be supplied to the Publisher at the above address. No reasonable request will be refused provided all conditions are met. All Publication and Exhibition titles are registered as trade marks in terms of the Trade Marks Act of 1993 and are held by Interact Media Defined (Pty) Ltd, Reg No 2014/092774/07. INTERACT MEDIA DEFINED Reg. 2014/092774/07 | VAT. 4560266159 October 2018 Volume 24 I Number 8