REMA TIP TOP

With over 100 years of experience and an assortment of various global acquisitions, REMA TIP TOP AG, based in Germany, is a global market leader offering high-quality products and services. REMA TIP TOP has a vertically integrated manufacturing facility in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal. This is a state-of-the-art facility, equipped with the largest compound mixing plant on the African continent as well as laboratories fully accredited by the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS).

The company also offers a consulting service, which includes providing advice on all products, technical training, and development. This service is available to both internal and external clients. REMA TIP TOP’s accredited representatives offer full-scale services to customers as well as on-site technical support. REMA TIP TOP has adopted a customer-centric approach to business and is relentless in developing an in-depth understanding of its customers, the industry in which it operates, and the needs of such operations.

The rubber industry in Southern Africa was pioneered by the South African Rubber Manufacturing Company Limited, now known as Dunlop Belting Products. Its main factory is located on the banks of the Mgeni River in Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 1929 the manufacture of conveyor belting commenced. Dunlop Belting Products has kept pace with technological advances in this field and now manufactures a full range of conveyor belting products for the world market.

The conveyor belting range includes PowaCORD, steel cord reinforced conveyor belting, in which belts up to strengths of 5400 kN/m and widths up to 2200 mm (about 7.22 ft) are manufactured. PowaPLY is an all-synthetic EP and EE multiply carcass belt with a range of cover qualities in a full range of strengths up to 3150 kN/m manufactured as well. The range of rubber hose products manufactured at the Dunlop Belting Products facility in Howick includes textile-reinforced hoses which are used extensively in mining and other industries, vacuum brake hoses, used in the braking systems of older rail wagons, and a variety of other applications.