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ANDERSON ENGINEERING: DRIVING

THE LOCAL WATER SECTOR

By STAFF WRITER

Anderson Engineering Limited is a
local company, which however going by
its profile you would think is a foreign
investor running the show.

Since its establishment in 2000 by a
Malawian Engineer Harold Jere the
company has positioned itself as one of
the crucial players in the water sector with
a portfolio of its customers spanning from
the country’s Water Boards to a number
of national water projects. The company
has been supplying water equipment and
involved in a number of projects at Central
Region Water Board; Southern Region
Water Board; Northern Region Water
Board; Blantyre Water Board; Central
Region Water Board; and Lilongwe Water
Board (LWB).

Anderson Engineering has also been key Anderson Engineering offices in Lilongwe
to several Malawi Government projects
under the National Water Development John Hopkins Building Elizabeth Central Limited, Illovo Limited, Standard Bank
Programme. Its core business in these Hospital. of Malawi, Telekom Networks Malawi
water boards and national water projects Ltd, Airtel Malawi, Light House, UNICEF,
has been supplying chemical dosing Anderson Engineering has in the years John Hopkins, Malawi Revenue Authority,
pumps, domestic as well as bulk water also served large corporations and UNC-Kamuzu Central Hospital,
meters, strainers and gate valves, and institutions supplying various engineering Carlsberg Breweries, Chibuku Products
installation of water pumps. facilities. These companies and institutions Ltd-SAB MILLER, NAC (National Aids
among them include: Reserve Bank of Commission), and the Department of
The company has also been involved in Malawi, Ethanol Company Limited, Animal Health & Livestock.
big projects such as the construction Total Malawi, Puma Limited, JTI Leaf
of the New Parliament Building, Bingu Processors Limited-Kanengo, Alliance Anderson Engineering aligns itself
International Conference Centre-BICC One Tobacco,Malawi Fertilizer, Paladin with strategic partners in SouthAfrica
(Umodzi Park), PETRODA HOUSE, and Africa, Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company and Europe, where it is affiliated with
companies such as TTV Fluval (Pty)
South Africa Ltd, PEKOS of Spain, Itron
Metering and Measurement Systems,
Spirax Sarco (Pty) Ltd of RSA, FESTO
of RSA, Hydroscand SA Ltd, Ingersoll
Rand of RSA, Hytec Services Africa (Pty)
Ltd, Trane (Pty) Ltd, Perfectaire Ltd,
Vestergaard, Fourways Air Conditioning
& Johnston Controls Ltd, and Braybar
Pumps Ltd.

These partnerships have given Anderson
Engineering a competitive advantage to
perform well in Malawi against foreign
based supply companies. In the years of
its operations, the company through local
entrepreneurial skills has shown excellent
growth, good cash flow and financial
Staff members of Anderson Engineering pose for a group picture
management.
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