With branches nationwide, portable sanitation company Sanitech is renowned for its service and superior product technology in the sanitation and hygiene solution markets. Founded in the early 1980s, Sanitech was the first portable toilet hire company to supply sanitation facilities to areas where no sanitation infrastructure existed.

Sanitech has a national footprint with 20 branches throughout South Africa, servicing toilet hire and hygiene requirements in the event production, construction and industrial, mining, government and informal market sectors. With the support of majority shareholder Waco International, which acquired Sanitech in 2007, the company is also expanding into Africa.

The toilet hire and professional washroom hygiene company maintains a competitive edge with its large national fleet. Sanitech Toilet Hire supplies, services and manages the rental provision of portable toilets, mobile ablution units and conservancy tank pumping and operates a fleet of more than 20 000 rental units and 180 vehicles. This enables them to supply and service locations throughout the country, speedily and efficiently. Sanitech Hygiene offers a comprehensive range of integrated hygiene solutions including a full range of products, maintenance and cleaning services.

The company, which employs about 678 full-time workers and 79 part-time employees, boasts an OHSAS 18002 rating and uses SABS-approved products.

Clients on Sanitech’s books include big mining companies, such as BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa, Assmang, Exxaro, Sishen Iron Ore Company, Kolomela Iron Ore Company, Sasol Mining, Aveng Mining and Murray & Roberts Cementation, as well as African Oxygen, Nedbank and the Department of Science and Technology, among others.

Sanitech has a Level 3 broad-based black economic-empowerment (BEE) certificate with a 100% BEE procurement recognition level, 38.44% black ownership and 9.86% black woman ownership. Waco International has a 74.9% shareholding in Sanitech and private equity firm Bopa Moruo owns 25.1%.

Waco International is a forming, shoring and scaffolding and relocatable modular building service provider in the mining and resources, infrastructure, industrial maintenance, education, healthcare, entertainment events and construction sectors in the geographies it operates in. In South Africa, the group companies comprise Formscaff, SGB-Cape and Abacus.