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2021 looting and most recently the KZN floods. Due plants to Australia, the Far East, Zambia, Angola,
to these difficult times the demise of many of LHL’s Tanzania, Mauritius, Seychelles, the Comores Islands,
competitors has been witnessed. As a 100% black- Hong Kong and United Arab Emirates, Zambia,
owned enterprise with a Level 1 BBBEE Status with Mozambique, Botswana, amongst others.
a 40% black female and 30% youth ownership the
business is growing from strength to strength. LHL LHL Engineering was selected to be part of the KZN
has operating facilities in Durban and Cape Town. Localization, Import Replacement and Enterprise
Previously located in New Germany, LHL has recently Development programme which commenced
moved to bigger premises, which are based in Glen in November 2021 and through the programme
Anil, Durban. The move saw the manufacturing space initiatives such as improved factory layout,
doubling in footprint, increased crane capacity and production efficiencies, workflow methodologies,
brand-new state of the art machinery and equipment quality control measures, staff training and launching
is being acquired which will enable the expansion of new products to a competitive and demanding
LHL’s pressure vessel manufacturing capacity. market have been implemented.
Technology will play a critical role in positioning LHL is being approached regularly by clients for
the company as relevant and ensuring it is able to tenders/quotes that were, as mentioned above,
compete with established larger players well into serviced by competitors who had to close their doors.
the future. Consequently, all new machinery and In order to satisfy the market demand currently
equipment, comprising robotics, 4IR, CNC and green experienced, LHL is in the process of establishing
technology, will have the aim of differentiating LHL’s a co-operative cluster with a group of companies
offerings as unique. to provide a one-stop facility that will boost their
overall competitive advantages. The cluster will
Future growth plans include becoming a leading create an interdependent and mutually beneficial
player in the metals and engineering industry by relationship with shared services, including state
applying a 4-Pillar platform entailing financial of the art equipment supplied and maintained by
resources, industry knowledge, customer trust strategic partners. With its workforce of 22 skilled
and agility, to successfully drive product sales employees, LHL’s future objectives are to capitalise
internationally.
on the new opportunities created through the
Target markets include sugar, chemical, pharma- cluster and to create further employment prospects.
ceutical, petro-chemical, oil and gas, pulp and Together with an impressive array of machinery
paper, water and sanitation, transport, and food
and beverage industries in both the public and and production facilities at its disposal and through
its cluster partners, LHL will become a market
private sector. Past projects have been completed
at SAPREF, ASTRON, Illovo Sugar, SI Group, Buckman leader with the flexibility, industry accreditation
Laboratory, and YARA Animal Foods. (ISO9001/2015, ISO45001, ISO3834, ASME V111
APP10), skills and knowledge to supply a wide range
LHL Engineering has successfully exported pressure of products and services to satisfy market demand
vessels and other equipment including complete for different sectors.

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