COVER STORY
The Uni-Cam reception room.
Designing our way
through the clutter
Uni-Cam was founded in late 2015 by renown CNC guru, Alan Welsford,
and is based in Cape Town's Montague Gardens in South Africa.
By Uni-Cam | Photos by Uni-Cam
U
ni-Cam is a technology-focused CNC producer
committed to providing solid, reliable and cutting-
edge CNC equipment for the South African industry,
using innovative technology backed by decades of
industrial automation and world-class technical support.
When Alan Welsford of Acepak fame, (co-founder and
technical director for over 30 years) – sold his yacht and
came out of retirement due to boredom; he decided he
wanted another boardroom.
He is a through-and-through CAD and software
developer, with a passion for automation and designing
CNC machines from the bottom up. He has created over
4 500 CNC machines, tailor-made for you the client.
Welsford recently teamed up with one of his old
schoolmates, the irascible and well-known marketing
man, Jean-Marc Duquenoy, a paradigm-challenging
person with a clear vision about serious and tangible
customer satisfaction.
The company is now geared up more than ever for
innovation and strives to break the mould of conformity that
sometimes plagues this industry – one look at our reception
room confirms this. We don’t like mainstream or what some
call ‘normal’.
Their speciality is custom-designed software for easy
g-code generation to avoid the complications of CAD / CAM.
THE TEAM
Glen St. Joseph, originally a CNC operator, worked his way
up over the past 15 years