WSP Group – engineering consultants

WSP Africa

Industrial

WSP brings a wealth of industrial experience, harnessing the technical and strategic skills of our staff from our operations worldwide

Industrial

WSP is able to work in an integrated way to provide a complete and appropriate service to meet client needs.

We have extensive international experience in over 60 countries and are active in a wide range of industrial sectors including:

  • Power generation, transmission and distribution
  • Steel and metal processing
  • Timber, pulp and paper
  • Water and sewage treatment
  • Mining and minerals
  • Oil and gas
  • Petrochemical
  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing including construction materials
  • Glass plants
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Waste and energy from waste
  • Electronics
  • Hi-tech industries

WSP provides a full range of multi-disciplinary services to our target sectors comprising:

  • Development planning and preliminary studies
  • Project planning and management
  • Design and engineering management
  • Structural and civil engineering
  • Mechanical and electrical engineering
  • Process engineering
  • Instrumentation, control and automation
  • Fire engineering
  • Geotechnical design and surveys
  • Transportation and highways master planning
  • Geographical information systems (GIS)

Our multi-disciplinary staffing capability allows us to offer fully integrated delivery teams to local and global clients. We have a strong commitment to local business development and .

With a proven track-record of major project delivery for our clients, WSP has established a world-class client base and enjoys a high level of repeat business. Our global client list includes, among others:

  • ABB
  • Akzo Nobel
  • AstraZeneca
  • British Gypsum
  • Guardian Glass
  • Kimberley Clark
  • Nokia
  • Rautaruukki
  • SSAB
  • Stora Enso
  • Unilever

Local project experience

General mining

  • Iscor Grootgeluk          
  • Majuba Colliery Effluent Treatment
  • Richards Bay Minerals
  • Twistdraai Colliery
  • Debswana New FISH plant
  • Impala Platinum Refrigeration Plant (Shaft 11C)
  • Northam Platinum Refrigeration Plant
  • AngloGold Ashanti – Obuasi Refrigeration Plant (Ghana)
  • Impala Platinum Refrigeration Plan (Shaft 14B)
  • De Beers – FINSCH Mine – New Fines Disposal Facility

Materials handling

  • Sandvik Mining - Asset tracking
  • Wheel washer - Tiger Wheel & Tyre – Babelegi
  • Samca Tiles – Babelegi
  • Janssens Pharmaceutica – Midrand
  • Rand Water Board lime slaking & dosing plant
  • Sappi Enstra effluent treatment
  • One 1000 can per minute washer - Bevcan - Epping
  • Rainbow Chickens Feedmill
  • Consol Glass
  • One line conversion from beverage to food can - Bevcan – Rosslyn
  • Friskies Petfoods
  • Husky Refrigeration
  • Nampak Sacks
  • Filter Washer - GUD - Prospecton
  • 125 tons/day cullet handling conveyor- Consol Glass- Wadeville
  • UCAR material handling automation at Mill Mixing and Forming.
  • UCAR Furnace rectiformer controls.
  • UCAR Graphite electrode inspection line.
  • Nampak Gravure – New Print Facility (Nigeria)

Specialist industries – Glass manufacture

  • Consol B1 Upgrade
  • Consol P2 Rebuild
  • Consol W3 Furnace Upgrade
  • Consol Wadeville Line 4
  • Consol C2 Machine change
  • Consol Clayville Batch Plant
  • Consol Pretoria Generator
  • Consol W1 Rebuild
  • Consol Glass 88Kv survey
  • Consol Glass Clayville Compressor Coding
  • Consol Incoming Substation
  • Consol Laboratory
  • Consol Glass C2 Venturi
  • Consol Glass W4 rebuild

Chemical and petro chemical industry

  • Mossgas onshore refinery - Mossel Bay
  • Sasol Oil Depots - Alrode, Middelburg
  • Afrox Nitrogen Liquifier Plant - Pretoria
  • Afrox Nitrogen liquifier Plant - Middelburg
  • Sappi Tugela belt filter plant
  • Valspar SA – resin and solvents plant upgrade
  • SAPREF – re instrumentation of control centre
  • Kynock Potchefstroom Upgrade – Feasibility Study
  • JHB Water – Various Works – Chlorine Storage Facilities Upgrade

Manufacturing industry

  • Samca Tiles - Babelegi
  • Tiger Wheel & Tyre Plant - Babelegi
  • Janssens Pharmaceutica - Midrand
  • Hoechst Marion Roussell - Rosslyn
  • Pilkington Glass - Springs
  • Intershore Fabrication Yard - Durban
  • Bemco - Botswana
  • Consol Glass – W3
  • Denel – Walk-In Freezer

Food and beverage industry

  • S A Breweries - Rosslyn
  • S A Breweries - Alrode
  • S A Breweries - Pietersburg
  • S A Breweries - Chamdor
  • Rainbow Chickens Feedmill
  • Consol Glass
  • Fresh Mark Refrigerated Warehouse - Durban
  • Meadowfeeds Mixing Line
  • Transvaal Sugar - Malelane
  • Premier Pet Foods
  • Nestle - Pinetown
  • Friskies Petfoods
  • Simba – Utility Upgrade for New Line
  • Bitek Dosing System 

Industrial electrical - automotive industry

  • BMW S.A. – Electrical Compliance Upgrade
  • BMW S.A. – Emergency Lighting System

Client list

  • ACSA
  • Amplats
  • Anglo Gold
  • Aspen Pharmaceutical
  • BMW (SA)
  • Buhler SA
  • City Power
  • Clover SA
  • Consol Glass
  • De Beers
  • Diageo
  • Exxaro – Zincor Base Metals
  • Friskies Petcare
  • Goldfields
  • Grinaker Properties
  • Group 5 Projects
  • Impala Platinum Mines
  • Industrial Urethanes
  • Johannesburg Water
  • Meadow Feeds
  • Nampak
  • National Brands
  • NECSA
  • Petro SA
  • PHD Pharmaceutical
  • Rand Water
  • Reckitt’s Benkiser
  • SAB Miller
  • Sappi
  • Simba
  • Transvaal Sugar
  • UCAR South Africa
  • Unifoods
  • Whirlpool
  • WITS University