WearCheck's Daniel Boakye calibrates a viscometer bath in the West African laboratory.
South African condition monitoring specialist, WearCheck, recently expanded its footprint into West Africa with the opening of an oil analysis laboratory in Ghana.
Strategically situated in Tarkwa, near the gold fields, WearCheck Ghana is set to service the burgeoning local mining industry. Other Ghanaian industries likely to benefit include construction, automotive, shipping, aviation, industrial, electrical and petrochemical.
Neil Robinson, WearCheck managing director, views the expansion as the next step in the company’s ongoing strategic expansion. “The stable Ghanaian economy and good governance were important factors in our decision to select Ghana as our starting point in West Africa. Another draw card is the fact that several of our South African mining clients also run operations in Ghana and we wanted to support them by offering the same high quality condition monitoring services they already use in South Africa.”
The WearCheck network currently includes a presence in seven countries: South Africa, Zambia, India, Dubai, Zimbabwe, Namibia and now Ghana, and includes nine world class laboratories all located in areas best positioned to serve particular industries or industry clusters. Demand for WearCheck’s services has played an influential role in determining new locations for laboratories.
Robinson is confident that Ghanaian businesses will improve efficiency by using oil analysis as a key proactive maintenance tool. “The ultimate goal of oil analysis is to reduce operating costs and to save customers money. By reducing unscheduled downtime, oil analysis increases the availability of machinery, improves productivity and boosts the bottom line.”
The opening of the first WearCheck laboratory nearly 40 years ago in South Africa, and its ongoing success, helped to position WearCheck as one of Africa’s leading oil analysis specialists. This was the start of a corporate journey in which international recognition and demand for world class services have led to steady organic growth as condition monitoring capabilities evolve to meet industry demands.
For more information contact WearCheck Ghana, +233 354 431 6512, www.wearcheck.co.za
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