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Premod tests housing market
PRODUCTS
The building system was patented in 2011. Last year the
system acquired the approval of Agrément South Africa under
Certificate No. 2019/583 and is also NHBRC endorsed.
The system delivers a composite wall panel to be used
in the erection of homes and buildings. Each panel is
manufactured under the ISO9000 quality management
systems standards. The composite panels are supplied to the
site, as a flat pack kit, where they are erected on an engineer
designed concrete floor slab with concrete columns and ring
beam on which a double pitched roof structure, with clad
gables, is erected.
Two low cost homes were built in order to gauge
communities’ attitude towards the alternative structure,
the comfort and the aesthetics. Built in Marburg and Kwa-
Mashu, both were well received by their owners and local
community.
The initial motivation was to provide quality homes to the
low-cost housing market; however, subsequent to the build
and government endorsement, the system was welcomed in
both the public and private sectors.
While tendering for affordable housing projects, the
company has built an Early Childhood Development school
PREMOD
Two low cost homes were built in order to gauge communities’
attitude towards the alternative structure.
which was completed in Oct 2019. The company is also
looking at Gap and FLISP markets and is actively pursuing
this.
Handling Kinematics pick-and-place
solution supplied to local OEM for
new brick and block plant
Sew-Eurodrive’s easily-configurable HandlingKinematics pickand-place
solution allows for machine control at a higher level
by means of a lower-level Configurable Control Unit (CCU) for
carrying out precision path movements. During start-up, all
the end user is required to do is enter the relevant mechanical
data for the initial configuration of the motion parameters.
During production, the trajectory positions necessary for
commencing movement are simply transferred to the CCU,
which coordinates the path movement in real-time. It even
allows for ‘wait’ points to be defined in the trajectory. The
system is so flexible so that, during palletising and stacking,
the target position can be adapted immediately during
the runtime by the CCU, without higher-level controller
intervention.
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