Babcock is the exclusive regional distributor for leading international brands including Volvo Construction Equipment, Winget concrete handling equipment, Ponsse forestry equipment, DAF trucks and Tadano cranes in South Africa.
Babcock specializes in the delivery of maintenance services to Utility power boilers and maintains boiler plant at 5 major Eskom power stations in South Africa. Babcock also design, supply and construct electricity transmission and distribution supply lines across the South African sub-continent. A wide selection of engineering support services back up the major product range.
Key activities include:
- Sales, maintenance, repair and overhaul, plus spares supply for on- and off- highway transport, construction, lifting and specialist mechanised forestry equipment.
- Hiring of construction and welding plant equipment.
- Sales of welding equipment and consumables, gas cutting equipment and manufacture of power generator sets.
- Civilian and military flight training from ab initio to ATPL level on both fixed - and rotorwing aircraft.
- Engineering and support services for steam generation plant and ancilliaries.
- Independent Power projects as EPC or Developer on Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT ) basis
- Mechanical construction.
- Dismantling, tagging, packing, storing and transporting for relocation of decommissioned process plant.
- Fabrication and assembly of high integrity pressure tubular components and associated workings for steam generating, process and water cooling plant.
- Supply, erection, installation and maintenance of transmission networks on the African continent.
- Manufacture of structural steel, forged, cast and galvanised components to the high voltage construction industry.
- Erection of high voltage transmission lines on a turnkey basis throughout southern Africa
Key customers:
- Key suppliers to leading players in the mining, quarrying, forestry, material handling, road building, transport and construction industries in southern Africa.
- Babcock is also a principal service provider to southern African governments and parastatal entities.
Business units within this division:
- Central Flying Academy
- Commercial - DAF Trucks
- Engineering
- Equipment - Volvo Construction Equipment, Winget, Ponsse
- Fabrication
- Industrial - Lincoln Electric, Stel, Volvo Penta
- Lift Africa - Tadano
- Ntuthuko Generation
- Ntuthuko Powerlines
- Plant and Rentals