BACKGROUND, OWNERSHIP AND ORGANISATION STRUCTURE
GFG South Africa was established in SA in the late seventies as a wholly owned subsidiary of GFG Germany. This gives the local company access to the resources and expertise of its parent company, as well as ensuring the company will be in existence well into the future. In addition, the CEO of GfG Germany, Hans-Jörg Hübner was appointed in January
1998 by Mr Nelson Mandela as the Honorary Consul of South Africa in Dortmund, with North Rhine-Westphalia as his jurisdiction. Casper van der Westhuizen, the current Managing Director, runs the South African subsidiary. ABOUT US
GFG is an acknowledged major world player in the development and sales of personal gas detection instrumentation. While many other instrumentation companies regard gas detection as a subdivision of a larger instrumentation portfolio, GFG maintains that gas detection is a demanding science and avoids diversification. Gas detection has traditionally been one of the most difficult process measurements. Gases are often life threatening because they tend to poison, explode, burn or stifle. Instrumentation capable of accurately sensing and measuring low concentrations of gases must, by definition, be sensitive, accurate, easy to calibrate, non-clogging, easy to interpret and affordable. These are almost contradictory specifications, especially in the field of handheld safety devices, but through our products and services GFG strives to ensure that workers in an adverse range of industries are safe from hazardous and toxic gases no matter where they are working, making GFG instrumentation integral across diverse industries such as telecommunications, mining, local government, wineries and petrochemicals, etc. Portable electronic gas sensing units have been in use in South Africa since the late seventies. GFG was one of the early entrants into the South African market and to date tens of thousands of portable units have been sold in bulk orders to gold mines in SA. GFG units are in use all over the country in other industries with an enormous amount of units in service. The fixed range of products includes single measuring point units, to plant wide sensing with several hundred transmitters. Our aim is for the units to be easily and economically serviceable with rapid turnaround times and low or no spare unit holdings lying idle within the company. OPERATIONS, SERVICE AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
The company operates from offices in Krugersdorp and covers the full geographic area of South Africa from this point. A team of service technicians is deployed in South Africa, with 24 hour response being offered. GFG prides itself in its ability to service and maintain large quantities of instrumentation and accessories. All instruments are repaired locally and our stores are stocked with all the spares required to repair faulty instruments. Service contracts are available and all repairs and maintenance are done on site. Most instruments sold in the South African market by GfG are manufactured in our state of the art production facilities. Completed instruments are submitted to the SABS for Intrinsic Safety and Performance approvals. GFG is committed to high levels of acceptance by users of their equipment and supports their products with extensive user induction and training. GFG is in touch with client requirements through its commitment to and in depth understanding of client needs and problems. We constantly relay market and client perception back to Dortmund in order to improve the levels of service satisfaction obtained from their instrumentation. Quality of products and service is of utmost importance to the company and we are currently compliant with ISO 9001:2008 standards. BBBEE
GfG has attained a Level 6 BEE rating on the basis of the BBBEE Codes of Good Practice. This achievement shows our commitment to South Africa, our local community and our staff.
