Denmark-headquartered Grundfos is one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers, producing about 16-million units a year. Its main production lines are pumps for heating and air conditioning and centrifugal pumps for mining, water supply, sewage and dosing.
The head office of Grundfos in sub-Saharan Africa is in Germiston, Gauteng, and is responsible for sales in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, among others.
The local Grundfos office and warehouse facility, which was developed in conjunction with property development group Growthpoint Properties, has recently become South Africa’s first industrial facility to receive a five-star Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of South Africa.
The R80-million building, comprising offices with a gross floor area of 3 400 m2 and a covered warehouse of 6 500 m2, has incorporated timed energy-saving lights, solar panels, a rain- water harvesting system and waterless urinals.
One of the most notable sustainable features of the Grundfos development in 16 Lascelles road, Meadowbrook Extension 13, is the building’s ability to be independent of municipal water supply for as much as 75% of the year. The building’s water supply has been designed to use rain, borehole and municipal water, with the rainwater harvesting system incorporating Grundfos’ own customised plant to purify harvested rainwater to drinking-quality water.
Grundfos sees the five-star Green Star rating as an official acknowledgement of the group’s green ethos, demonstrated by the integrated industrial and office component of its sub-Saharan Africa headquarters.
Globally, the group employs 18 900 employees and in Africa, it has 105 workers on its payroll. Its pumps are manufactured in Denmark and other sites around the world. In Africa, local assembly is done.
Grundfos is represented by more than 80 companies in over 55 countries. Grundfos products are also sold in a large number of countries by local distributors.
A Danish family owns Grundfos, which was established in 1945. Last year, the group had a turnover of DKr23-billion.
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