Danish valves manufacturer AVK Valves Southern Africa, a company which also has many offices located throughout the Americas, has officially launched its R200-million valves manufacturing facility in Alrode, Gauteng, with the manufacturer being the first in its sector to seek to take full advantage of the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI’s) local content requirements for State-owned entities.
These requirements stipulate that following a particular product’s designation under local procurement regulations, such entities must, when procuring the item, ensure it is a locally manufactured, 75%-local-content product.
The new facility has enabled AVK to achieve the scale and capacity to not only meet South African requirements, but also to expand in the sub-Saharan market.