Abacus was honored to attend the Siemens Crane Partner Conference in Bad Windsheim, Germany. Nico Erasmus gave the presentation about our most recent crane projects and what we are looking forward to in the next year. Our TIA (“this is Africa”) slogan will be remembered by many. While working in […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
Abacus has just successfully completed a STS (ship-to-shore) crane upgrade at the port of Réunion. The new system incorporated a S7-1500 PLC, Sinamics S120 drive system and a Siemens CMS (Crane management system). A full article on this exciting project to follow soon.
Reunion Crane Upgrade
For the last 10 years, Abacus has been supporting CAST (Church Alliance For Social Transformation), a nonprofit organization in Westville. They have various programs helping to break the poverty cycle in Africa. In addition to annual donations to CAST as our chosen charity, we also volunteer our time to help […]
CAST Parcel Packing
Most of the Abacus Team joined the Neema fun trail run this past Saturday. We had lots of fun and more exercise than some had hoped for! Abacus is a proud partner of the Neema foundation, who has an excellent program in helping foundation phase school children to improve their […]
Neema Foundation Fun Trail Run/Walk
Although they have been with us for a short while already, we have not yet introduced the following people on our team. To the technical team we welcome Andrew Penberthy, and we have Jolene Hann as the friendly face at reception. We are glad to have you and hope for […]
Welcoming new staff
We are happy to welcome some new members to the Abacus engineering and panel building teams! They are Zamo Dube and Duncan Dladla. We are looking forward to a long and happy partnership.
New members of our team
Abacus joining their Siemens peers at the Africa Intermodal 2023 conference recently.