Mission statement:
“Outec Controls is committed to provide quality products and services to its customers. Outec relies on its system of quality assurance based on the principles and methods of Total Quality Management (TQM), and the dedication, commitment, quality-awareness and experience of its employees”
Current activities and market sector:
- Manufacturing of MV & LV switchgear for the electrical distribution industry.
- Supply MV & LV switchgear to other resellers.
- Turnkey projects.
- Supply equipment and services to the following sectors in the industry:
- Mining
- Industry
- Municipalities
- Private owners and developers
- Countries around South Africa:
- Mozambique
- Tanzania
- Nigeria
- Namibia
- Zimbabwe
- DRC
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
Current Commodities:
SEL Medium Voltage Switchgear
- Fixed pattern air & GIS 11/22/33 kV switchgear.
- Single modular panels or combined single tank switchgear units.
Power and Distribution Transformer
- Oil cooled as well as cast-resin transformers.
- Cast-resin up-to 33kV and 20 MVA.
- Power transfers up to 132kV and 100 MVA.
- These units can be loose units, installed in enclosures/skids or container subs.
Generator Plants
- Stand-alone -or-
- Synchronized panels 400V or 11kV.
Manufacturers of:
- LV switchboards & MV switchboards.
- Substation solutions.
- Miniature substation.
- Mining compact substations.
- Outdoor switchgear.
- Containerized substations.
- Manufacturing of customised steel enclosures for projects.
- Current transformers.
Suppliers of equipment for the building and maintenance of substations.
BEE Status:
Outec Controls is currently a level 2 B-BBEE rated company.
Recent projects:
- 1 x Mobile substation for Zimbabwe Poli-oak manufacturers.
- 2 x 11kV Container substations for Jozi Power for the mobile generation.
- 1 x 11kV Substation for University of Pretoria, SEL ICB switchgear.
- 2 x Substations for solar plants in Namibia 22kV SEL ICB switchgear.
- 22kV SEL switchgear 2x substation for Isover ICB units.
- Installation of 62 x 22kV MV indoor switching panels for Consol Nigel.
- Design, install and commission MV switchgear and synchronising control panels for steam generation power station in the Eastern Cape.
- Design, build, install and commission control panels for an 80 MVA substation for Ekurhuleni Metro.
- Transformer protection panels for Zimbabwe, and other customers in South Africa.
- Various smaller substations 11/22kV in South Africa (Supply, install and commission).
- Standby PLC change-over system for Enviroserve on their 11kV system.
- Installation, testing and commissioning of protection relays on MV networks for City Power, Stellenbosch and numerous other smaller customers.
- PV containerized substation Upington PV plant – client Ingeteam.
- Container substation Zimbabwe.
- Generator automatic change-over panels for MV Generation (11kV).
- Containerized substations for the DRC.
- 33kV Containerized substation for a Steelport mine.
- PFC 11/22 kV control panels.
- LV main distribution panels 5000Amps for Tanzania.
- 11kV Substation for a hotel group in Toga.
- 11kV Mini-subs for St-Helena island (Basil Read).
- Supply of 33kV RMU’s for Mozambique and Namibia.
- Supply of containerized substations for Consol – Nigeria installation.
- Supply of 33kV containerized generator substation for Jozi Power.
- Install new control and protection on Ngombeni coal-fired power station Mafia island Tanzania.
- Install complete new LV MCC at Kilombero Plantation Ltd Tanzania.
- Hydropower station in Tanzania, design, build and commission the control panels, PLC control system and protection for synchronizing to the Tanesco Grid.
- Ekurhuleni factory replaces 22kV complete substations 18 Panels during a shutdown.
- Test and verify substations for annual inspections (Foskor, Springs smelter and various other substations).
- Install substation automation systems Ekurhuleni 132kV substation.
- Turnkey project for the total 22kV network (overhead lines, container substation, standby generator for a plant in Mpumalanga).