The South African Institute of Foundrymen’s 52rd Annual Awards Dinner was held at the Emperors Palace, Convention Centre, Kempton Park, Gauteng on Friday 3 June 2016.
200 foundrymen, guests, wives and award winners attended this year’s event. Duane Rockwell was MC for the evening. The dinner was well supported by sponsors in the form of prizes for the award winners, and ticket sponsors for the award winners and VIP guests invited by the Institute.
The SAIF would like to thank the following sponsors for their valuable contributions to help make the evening a success. These included the guest gifts and tickets for the award winners: Ametex, Castings SA, Durrans RMS, Endeco Omega Foundry Machinery, Finecast Foundry, Foseco South Africa, IMP Scientific, Insimbi Alloy Supplies, Kimberley Engineering Works, Lauds Foundry Equipment, Pentagon Resources, Prima Industrial Holdings, SI Group, Thos Begbie, University of Johannesburg and Zinchem.
Awards handed out on the evening were as follows:
Lauds Technical Award (formerly known as the Colin Butler Award) – Randal Wahl from Wahl Industries for the best technical presentation presented by a SAIF member during 2015 “Using solar power in foundries”.
Non-Member Diploma – Clive Wray from Rayten Engineering Solutions for the best technical paper presented to the Institute during 2015 by a non-member: “Mobile extraction systems to meet emission monitoring requirements”.
Insimbi Refractory and Alloy Supplies / Sasol Synfuels Procurement & Marketing Award – Charles Rapetswa from the University of Johannesburg for the highest marks achieved by a 1st year metallurgy student for 2015.
Foseco Award – Lebohang Mafokeng from the University of Johannesburg for the highest marks achieved by a final year metallurgy student for 2015.
Honorary Member Award – Nigel Pardoe for services to the Institute.
Special Learner Awards for completion of the Foundry Diploma Programme modules – Abednigo Motaung, Remigio Kuvawoga, Opeoluwa Dada, Frank Mlungwana, Mathew Mabena, Dan Mangena and Philimon Phaphu.
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- Gary van der Elst, Leonard De Lange, Catherine Mokubetsi, Randal Wahl, Hilton Maschilla, all from Wahl Industries and Brian Clough from Ceramic & Alloy Specialists
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- Roxanna Cabaco, CJ Lindeque and Francois Southey, all from Lauds Foundry Equipment, David van Niekerk, Kevin and Nicolle van Niekerk of Lauds Foundry Equipment
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- Terence Stopforth of McWade Productions, Rob and Byron van Niekerk and Grant Hibbins, all of RC Systems
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- Thabo Makhanya and Nino Ciani of SI Group with Rudi Slabbert of Proco Foundry
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- Bradon Panther and Victor Dias from Endeco Omega, Carlos Palinhos from Walro Flex and Mark Hughes from RelyIntracast
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- Ash Roopchand and HRH Lance Deysel, both of Pressure Die Castings with Glen Dikgale of RelyIntracast and Anton Wessels of Cobra Watertech
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- Ettiene van der Westhuizen and Shaun Treadwell, both of NI Foundry with Suryakant Khambekar of KBSA in the centre
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- Dudley de Beer of Insimbi Alloys and Boelie van der Westhuizen of Steloy
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- Deon and Marieta Smit of ChemSystems, Johan de Beer of ChemSystems, Paul and Louise Malone and Isaac Mogob, all of Thos Begbie
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- Nicky Smit, David Barbour and William Price, all from Prima Industrial
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- Warren Zandberg and Hayden Johns, both of Foseco South Africa with Nickie Loots of Thos Begbie, in the centre
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- Andrew and Anne Grady of Isando Foundry, Enno Krueger of Foseco South Africa and Janley Kotze of Ceramic and Alloy Specialists
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- Rob Hallaby of Aluminium Copper Processors, Mike Wolhuter of Pressure Die Castings, Marc Hindle of McWade Productions, Rhett Lawson of Pressure Die Castings, Francois and Simone Strydom of Ford Motor Company South Africa
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- The Non-Member Diploma Award winner Clive Wray from Rayten Engineering Solutions for the best technical paper presented to the Institute during 2015 by a non-member: “Mobile extraction systems to meet emission monitoring requirements”
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- The Lauds Technical Award (formerly known as the Colin Butler Award) winner Randal Wahl from Wahl Industries for the best technical presentation presented by a SAIF member during 2015 “Using solar power in foundries” is seen with Kevin van Niekerk of Lauds Foundry Equipment
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- The Honorary Member Award presented to Nigel Pardoe for services to the Institute
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- The Insimbi Refractory and Alloy Supplies / Sasol Synfuels Procurement & Marketing Award presented to Charles Rapetswa from the University of Johannesburg for the highest marks achieved by a 1st year metallurgy student for 2015. He is seen with Dudley de Beer of Insimbi Refractory and Alloy Supplies
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- The Foseco Award presented to Lebohang Mafokeng from University of Johannesburg for the highest marks achieved by a final year metallurgy student for 2015. He is seen with Enno Krueger of Foseco South Africa
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- Eduardo Evaristo of Action Africa, Petrus Eddie of Forbes Foundry, Ryno van Rooyen of Durrans Group, Clifford van Eeden of Durrans RMS, Greg Smith of JC Impellers, Werner van der Merwe of Mitak, Mark Lyons of Quantus Foundry, Danie Cronee of Forbes Foundry and Rudi Slabbert of Proco Foundry
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- Sibusiso Zwane, Dennis Baker and Jacques Swanepoel, all of ChemSystems, Thomani Muhanganei of Scaw Metals, Eric Mathieson and Siphokazi Booi, both of ChemSystems
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- Len Hutton from Insimbi, John Taylor of SpecTech SA, Donald Osmond of IMP and Virosh Koobair from the South African Mint Company
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- Emile Timmins, Damon Symondson and Rene Muller, all from Scaw Metals, Mike Holton and Rui Dias of Endeco Omega Foundry Equipment
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- Reg Turton of Mitak, Johan Vos of Weir Minerals, Antoinette Swanepoel of SI Group, Brendan Homan of Mineral Zone and Jaysen du Toit of SI Group
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- Ariel van Flymen, Dr Paul Paxinos and Joshua van Flymen, all from Pentagon Resources
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- Linda and Rocky Bernardes from Mustang Foundry, Bertus Cilliers and Harry Hillis, both from Sulzer, Joaquim and Sune Bernades from Mustang Foundry with Wilma Buys and Jaime Goncalves, both from KEW Foundries
