Local equipment supplier BMG’s Tools & Equipment Lifting team offers a specialist service to diverse sectors throughout Africa, including automotive and tyre manufacturing, paper and pulp, sugar, forestry and agriculture, as well as marine and mining.

“BMG’s dedicated Lifting and Rigging division was established in August last year. It supplies a broad range of quality branded equipment that is enhanced by a technical advisory and support service, and is designed for simplified, efficient and safe procedures in every application,” explains BMG Tools & Equipment Lifting and Rigging product specialist Tanita Rousel-Brett.

She adds that BMG’s team of specialists, with over 30 years’ collective experience, work together to provide solutions for any lifting or rigging challenge.

“An interesting project for BMG recently was assisting a game farmer relocate three young giraffes from a game reserve in Nylstroom, in Limpopo to Kuwait. We constructed a robust sling especially for the project, using high-strength McKinnon chain, to load the crate holding the giraffes safely onto a truck”.

BMG complies fully with the requirements of the lifting machine and lifting tackle regulations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) Act 85 of 1993. The company’s lifting machinery inspector is certified in terms of the Engineering Profession Act 2000 (Act number 46 of 2000) and is a registered member of industry body the Engineering Council of South Africa.

BMG has approval from the Department of Employment and Labour in terms of the driven machinery regulations 18 (5) of the OHSA 1993, for examining and testing of lifting machines and lifting tackle.

BMG specialists consider the safe operation of lifting and rigging equipment as one of the most critical aspects in materials handling. They also recommend that customers’ equipment is independently load tested yearly, or as an urgent requirement, and inspected every three months.

BMG has a fully equipped trailer and is able to offer an on-site load testing service for customer convenience and peace of mind.

Included in BMG’s extensive range of tools, and lifting and rigging equipment are electric, chain and lever hoists, geared and plain crawls, chain, wire and webbing slings, and hydraulic and pneumatic hoists and winches, as well as manual Tirfor winches and ropes. The range also comprises high-pressure hydraulic tools, mechanical ratchet jacks, jib cranes and eye bolts.