At the beginning of the year Safal Group a leading supplier of metal coated Roofing in Africa has chosen Tenova Hypertherm as the furnace supplier for their two new strip processing lines to be set up in Tanzania and South Africa.

Now these two furnaces, installed in Dar-es-Salam and KwaZulu-Natal plants respectively are in an advanced phase of construction. The Dar-es-Salam facility is expected to be commissioned in the 4th quarter of 2008 and the one at Durban in the 1st quarter of 2009 both furnaces will be used for the production of aluminum zinc coated product.

The horizontal non ox based furnaces of Safal Group will be equipped with cutting edge low temperature strip heating technology developed by Tenova Hypertherm to reduce energy consumption and is expected to result in substantial savings for Safal Group. The two contracts mark the entry of Tenova Hypertherm into the coveted and as yet untapped market of AZ coatings.