SA Affordable Housing July / August 2017 // Issue: 65 | Page 24

ADVERTORIAL
10 years of Trumod
Suppliers of light steel frame structures to the building industry.
Platinum Village, Rustenburg.
T
rumod is a design and manufacturing enterprise that
has been supplying light steel structures, over the
past 10 years.
As a member of Clyde Steel we have direct access to
significant stock holding of slit steel, which allows us to
react to demand fluctuations and puts us in an ideal
position to offer our clients a speedy and consistent
supply of trusses and other rolled sections.
SHORT SPAN ROOF TRUSSES
Trumod has acquired the ‘U’ truss machinery and
technology from Vela Building Systems. The trusses are
very well suited for the shorter span roof structures such
as required in affordable and RDP housing projects. Truss
assembly is simple, as all members have been pre-cut and
punched. No jigs are required and members can be bolted
together using local labour.
We have the capacity to manufacture in excess of 2 500
roofs a month and are presently supplying roof trusses to a
number of RDP and affordable housing projects country
wide. As this is a very cost effective truss system, our
market has grown exponentially over the past
six months.
LONG SPAN ROOF TRUSSES
The Scottsdale machine rolls a steel section that is well
suited for the larger roof spans. Our optimised truss
design offers cost-effective support for any type of
roof cover.
We have designed and provided trusses with a clear
span of 30m. This length of truss would be very costly to
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transport, which is why we offer the service of rolling the
trusses on site. Trusses are then assembled for lifting and
fixing to the support structure. As with the ‘U’ truss, all
members have been pre-cut and punched. No jigs are
required and members can be bolted together using
local labour.
Trumod is most probably the only manufacturer
worldwide that has three manufacturing systems. We have
found that a singular manufacturing system does not offer
us the capability to effectively serve the full light steel
frame market. These advanced technologies each have
characteristics that are well suited to a specific
market sector.