Kaytech (South Africa) has recently acquired a specialised, high technology, warp knit geogrid line from Karl Meyer to manufacture high strength, low strain, reinforcing geogrids and composite geotextiles for soil and slope stabilisation, basal reinforcement and asphalt reinforcement interlayers.
The Karl Meyer is currently being commissioned and Kaytech is now also finalising their choices of GCL machinery at present. With a greenfield manufacturing setup, they have an opportunity to make something superior to what is currently in the market, but they feel machinery choices are critical. Their investigation teams have been all over the world to assess candidate plant manufacturers.
Peter Davies states that "the geosynthetics business is good in South Africa and we have made these investment choices as we have confidence that South Africa is on a growth path. Being local manufacturers of our own products has always enabled us to stay ahead of the pack and we do hope to maintain that lead and increase it with these two new investments."
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