Mexel Energy launches in South Africa
May 2010
News
Mexel Energy, based in Pretoria, has entered the South African market. The company’s focus is energy efficiency where, as renewable energy consultants and project developers, it is able to offer environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions to industry, in order to reduce carbon emissions.
Mexel Energy is the appointed agent for, MEXEL Industries, a French company that has been supplying high profile international customers since 1990. MEXEL produces eco-friendly emulsions that are tailored to solve BioFouling and corrosion problems in the cooling water circuits of energy and heat dependent, industrial process. These solutions help reduce fossil fuel usage and maintenance costs through increased thermal efficiency. Target markets include the power generation companies and other power producers, as well as the petroleum, cement, steel and other energy intensive industries.
Mexel Energy offers innovative concepts, including a virtual power station (VPS) division which will design, build and operate a VPS designed specifically in order to promote energy efficiency targets. The company’s general manager, Jurie Lombard, says that he is excited by the prospects of the VPS business model, as it is a unique concept in creating energy savings and will make a large contribution to the reduction of green house gas emissions.
For more information contact Karen Diggelen, Deepsmart Consulting, +27 (0)84 370 3685, [email protected], www.deepsmart.co.za
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