History

Venco Works was established in 1973 to provide an engineering service to Iscor Ltd. Since its inception, Venco has evolved its activities and expertise to service diverse spectra of industries within the South African market.

Market Position

Venco Works undertakes the fabrication and engineering of medium to heavy mechanical components of up to 50 tons, both for the new equipment and the used equipment refurbishment markets. It remains a market leader in its field.

Business Focus

Venco’s current focus is on the development of new products and the expansion of its export markets. It produces standard ranges of equipment for a number of diverse industries and provides its services to the following:

As a reliable business partner to all its clients who entrust their work to Venco, its success is based on its expertise, capabilities, facilities and the quality of its service and products. This ensures ongoing business relations with its long-standing clients.

Business Culture

Through maintaining an open-door policy, Venco encourages interaction amongst all staff members. Its participating management style incorporating a system of individualized and measurable targets, is the driving force behind the Venco team’s dedication to producing only the highest quality products.

Personalized client and supplier contact is maintained on a regular basis. This has been fundamental in forging long-term relations and quality customer service. Reliable quality service together with well-established relations have resulted in new business being created via existing client referrals.

Venco remains one of the market leaders in its business sector by staying informed on the latest developments, market trends and technological advances.

Due to the nature of the business, the factory environment adheres to the highest safety standards. The fabrication facility is well equipped and Venco has the expertise, manpower and resources to manufacture and service a wide range of mechanical engineering products. Quality assurance and production planning are assured through means of a powerfully integrated computerized system.

Competitive Advantage

Due to the expertise and experience of the Venco team and the streamlining of its extensive in-house capabilities, Venco is able to offer all manufacturing processes in-house without having to make use of sub-contractors. This leads to shorter production cycles and the maintenance of better quality control over every step of the process.

Accreditation and Awards

Quality assurance is recognized as crucial and Venco is an ISO 9002 accredited manufacturer, and is currently in the process of upgrading to OHSAS 18001.

Skills Development and Diversity

A substantial budget has been allocated to the implementation of upliftment programmes. Amongst others, Venco has created a scholarship programme at the local Technikon and is actively involved in apprenticeship training programmes. Its Adult Basic Education and Training programmes are not restricted to its workforce, but extend to include the local community as well. As a result of Venco’s commitment and involvement in educational betterment programmes, a significant component of its management staff has come up through the Venco ranks.

In the realm of Employment Equity, the efforts of Venco’s management team have ensured that the company exceeds the requirements and numerical goals of all prevailing legislation.

New Focus

In line with the DCD-DORBYL Group’s expansion drive, Venco‘s focus is to develop new markets within the industries and to increase its refurbishment activities and production capacity levels.

Confidentiality

Venco adheres to a strict code of business ethics and client confidentiality agreements are essential to protect designs and patents held by clients, as many of its clients are designers and engineers in the Engineering Industry.

Products

Venco manufactures to customers’ designs and specifications. Its products and services included:

Earthmoving Industry:
Dump truck bins; Wheel Loader chassis and buckets; Bulldozer blades and rippers.

Steel Making Industry
Transfer cars and ladles; Furnaces, Converters and Manipulators.

Aluminium Industry
Furnaces; Rolling carriages; Roller tables, Ladles and Tilters.

Mining Industry
Wagon tipplers; Inclined shaft mechanized mining systems; Winder components; Feederbreakers;
Mill components; Stacker reclaimer components.

Material Handling Industry
Industrial cranes; Straddle carriers.