Premier Valves acquired by AVK
3rd Quarter 2014
News & events
A majority stake in South Africa’s Premier Valves Group (PVG) has been acquired by Denmark’s AVK, one of the world’s leading valve manufacturers. The R100 million investment will see AVK South Africa become compliant with the DTI’s new Designation Law, requiring state-owned entities to buy locally manufactured products with a 70% local content. PVG’s existing factory in Alrode Johannesburg will be upgraded, creating 80 new jobs. AVK will also set up a state-of-the-art resilient seal valve (RSV) manufacturing unit, producing up to 80 000 RSVs a year.
Tjaart van der Walt, director of AVK Holding Southern Africa.
“This acquisition represents a substantial investment by one of the world’s leading valve manufacturers. It attests to the efficacy of DTI policy aimed at re-industrialising South Africa to meet the requirements of its state-owned enterprises and infrastructure spend by providing large volumes of world-class, competitively priced valves locally,” said Tjaart van der Walt, director of AVK Holding Southern Africa.
PVG is one of South Africa’s largest and longest established valve manufacturers. While it supplied many of the valves in South Africa’s major power stations and water infrastructure projects, cheap imports from China prior to the DTI’s designation of valves for local content forced PVG to downsize and import valves to survive.
PVG is now in the process of re-building its productive capacity. AVK is one of the world’s leading valve manufacturers, with manufacturing operations in nine countries. The company has a net turnover of approximately R6,4 billion and is present in 80 countries.
For more information contact Tjaart van der Walt, AVK South Africa, +27 (0)21 981 4414, [email protected], www.avkvalves.co.za
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