Botswana

Botswana is small in population, substantial in purchasing power and methodical in how it buys. EMM ships mainly through Durban or Walvis Bay with road haulage to Gaborone, Francistown and the mining centres. Public and parastatal procurement here follows formal tender processes with real documentation requirements, and private buyers tend to be equally structured, so our work on a Botswana enquiry is often as much about compiling a compliant submission as it is about the equipment.

Diamonds, beef, construction

Diamond mining at Jwaneng and Orapa and the cutting and polishing industry in Gaborone drive demand for crushing and screening, dense media separation, pumps, conveying, compressors and precision workshop equipment. Coal at Morupule and the copper-nickel projects add their own processing and handling requirements. Beef is the other pillar: abattoir plant, chilling and freezing, hide processing, rendering and feedlot equipment for the Lobatse and Francistown operations. Water is a permanent national concern in a largely Kalahari country, so boreholes, submersible pumps, treatment, desalination of brackish sources and storage come up continually. Construction and building materials - block and brick machines, batching plants, concrete equipment - track the steady public works programme.

Heat, dust and standards

Summer temperatures in the interior regularly pass 38 C with very low humidity and fine abrasive dust. We specify high-ambient motor ratings, upsized radiators and heavy air filtration as standard here, and we recommend sealed-for-life bearings wherever the duty allows. BOBS administers standards and some product categories require certification, which we confirm before shipping. The grid delivers 230 V single phase and 400 V three phase at 50 Hz, and the grid is relatively dependable by regional standards.

If you are bidding into a tender, send us the specification document itself - we will answer it clause by clause.