CORPORATE PROFILE. ELB Group LIMITED

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1 CORPORATE PROFILE ELB Group LIMITED

2 Engineered To Deliver Engineered Solutions For Long Term Relationships The ELB Group Limited has been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 1951

3 Overview The ELB Group: Delivering Engineering Solutions with World-Class Technology Partners since 1919 across the African Continent and Beyond. A leading total solutions provider to the mining, minerals, power, port, construction and industrial sectors, the ELB Group is an industry leader in the supply of: Equipment for construction, earthmoving, mining, quarrying and recycling, Engineered solutions for bulk materials handling, industrial projects and engineered technologies, Instrumentation and electrical construction, Underground and utility construction equipment. The ELB Group focuses on the delivery of sustainable, customer-driven and value-add solutions to a growing international customer base, maximising the profitability of its clients operations and guaranteeing return on investment. With permanent operations in Africa and Australasia, the ELB Group is committed to exceeding the expectations of its clients through: Supply of world-class equipment and technology, ELB innovation, In-house, multi-disciplinary expertise, Leading project management and logistics capabilities adapted to difficult and remote terrains with minimal infrastructure, Assistance in raising project funding and reaching commercial agreements, Flexible contract structuring, Investing in the technical and managerial competence of our people.

4 An Industry Leader Built On Experience A truly South African dynamic, evolving and growing company, the ELB Group (ELB) is committed to proactively meeting its clients needs, through business principles and values rooted in a proud heritage that spans more than 97 years. To meet the growing needs of emerging markets and industries in Africa and beyond, the company continues to expand its geographic footprint and increase its product and technology range. Client Focus: We measure the worth of our company through the real and sustainable difference we make to our clients businesses. By tailoring our services to the needs of our growing client base and focusing on maintaining and building long-term relationships with our clients, we are proud of our growing international order book and, more importantly, our significant repeat business. Technological Innovation: Remaining ahead of emerging trends and potential technological breakthroughs is the foundation of our service delivery and product competitiveness, as well as of our position at the forefront of industry development. Flexible, individual and effective solutions, based on cutting-edge design concepts and equipment, are the key to finding and providing the optimum solutions our customers expect from us. Staff Satisfaction: Our people are our most valuable asset, enabling the ELB Group to reach ever greater heights in making a real and sustainable difference to our clients businesses. Our multi-disciplinary pool of AAA candidates, highly talented and dedicated engineers, and technical and support staff, stay close to the customer, providing multi-disciplinary support and expertise throughout the delivery of a contract and beyond.

5 and Innovation The ELB culture encourages respect for one another and for our diversity; the value of teamwork in the pursuit of shared goals; and the importance of recognition and professional growth through on-going training and mentoring. ELB places great importance on our employees sense of fulfillment and contentment, which we consider essential in career satisfaction. This enables us to best assist in meeting our employees personal growth needs, desires and objectives. We are proud of our highly motivated and positive employee morale and continually seek to enhance our position as an employer of choice. Treating our employees with respect, empowering them and providing reaffirming management within a framework of employee recognition and career goals continue to play a key role in keeping staff morale high and turnover low. Quality: Our unwavering commitment to meeting and exceeding best practices and standards within the industry underpins our objective to achieve the highest levels of quality and customer satisfaction. ELB s quality management services are certified for compliance with the international quality management standards (ISO ) by an international authority. We proactively manage quality assurance control throughout all our own and our sub-contractors operations.

6 The Group Zero Harm: The ELB Health, Safety & Environment (SHE) policy guides all our activities and operations to minimise risk to employee health and the environment as we continuously strive for zero harm. With our business processes certified in compliance with OSHASH 18001, ELB is proud of our world class safety performance, consistently achieving incident frequency rates that are well below industry norms. As part of our commitment to a harm-free environment, ELB projects are conducted in a sustainable manner to ensure minimal impact on the environment. Risk-Free Project Delivery: State-of-the-art and structured risk and project management tools are applied to every project, taking into account that each project is unique in size, shape, complexity and execution. This ensures successful project delivery in the most difficult and remote terrains. Social Responsibility: We acknowledge our responsibility to the countries and industries in which we operate. We invest in the education of our youth, focusing on mathematics, science and engineering as the key areas of growth and sustainability. ELB s empowerment partner, the ELB Educational Trust, promotes the education of historically disadvantaged South Africans through scholarships for tertiary level study, and donations to primary and secondary-level educational organisations. We support small business development by the historically disadvantaged, as a key driver in economic development and poverty reduction.

7 The ELB Group has four areas of focus, namely ELB Equipment, ELB Engineering Services, B&W Instrumentation & Electrical and Ditch Witch Australia. ELB Equipment: Marketing a wide selection of products designed to meet industrialised first-world standards, from both South African and international manufacturers. The product range covers earthmoving, construction, mining, quarrying and recycling equipment. ELB Engineering Services: Providing total engineered materials handling solutions, power solutions, industrial projects and appropriate modular plants to the mining, minerals, power, port, construction and industrial sectors based on its own in-house capability as well as technology agreements with world class product and know-how companies. B&W Instrumentation and Electrical: Providing specialist construction expertise to build fully functioning electrical and instrumentation (E&I) infrastructure across all major industries, including infrastructure, mining, chemical, oil and gas and utilities. The company is one of sub- Saharan Africa s leading independent E&I construction groups. Ditch Witch Australia: Importing and distributing the world-renowned Ditch Witch range of underground and utility construction equipment. Markets served in Australia and New Zealand cover the gas, water, sewage, electricity, communications, the Defence Force, and airport and dock authorities.

8 Equipment: Brands You Can Trust As an acknowledged market leader in its sector, ELB Equipment represents internationally-renowned manufacturers, supplying a comprehensive range of construction, earthmoving, mining, quarrying and recycling equipment, designed to first-world, industrialised standards. ELB Equipment Provides customers with specialist solutions to enhance their profitability, Reacts quickly to customers needs by either sourcing non-standard equipment from abroad or supplying local, custom-built equipment as customers diversify into new market sectors, Provides around-the-clock after-sales service on the full range of ELB Equipment products. By combining top global brands under a single, reputable trade name, ELB Equipment maximises the synergies between these companies to provide its customers with a professional and world-class service in the provision of construction, roads, civils, earthmoving, materials handling, industrial, mining, quarrying and recycling equipment. Together with the staff of its authorised dealers across South Africa and in other southern African countries, ELB Equipment s highly skilled, professional staff are proud of their exceptionally fast response time in providing marketing, sales and after-sales services to clients throughout the region.

9 Branch and Dealer Network: ELB Equipment services its client base through a network of branches and well-established dealers throughout South Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa. Meeting World Standards: Products represented by ELB Equipment are designed to meet the strict emission and safety control regulations that apply to industrialised firstworld countries. Benefits of such high safety standards include enhanced ergonomics, improved productivity, conformance-to-quality standards, reduced operating cost and client satisfaction. Overseas Principals: Overseas principals provide ongoing support and training of ELB Equipment sales, technical service and repair staff on the latest technological developments and international market trends. Overseas principals also interact with ELB Equipment customers to offer expert advice in maximising the productivity of equipment in the field. Finance: ELB Equipment provides financial assistance to its customers through ELB Finance and/or ELB Leasing. This facility operates in conjunction with a leading financial institution.

10 Equipment: Brands You Can Trust Aftermarket Support: ELB Equipment s pledge is to offer superior back-up service to all users of its equipment. This covers: Parts Supply: Around-the-clock service ensures that users have ready access to a comprehensive range of parts and service exchange components, thereby limiting downtime of equipment, Service: A 24-hour call-out service reflects ELB Equipment s commitment to ensuring trouble-free operation of all its equipment in the field. Units are maintained on site on a regular basis. A field service and workshop facility enables larger jobs to be handled quickly and professionally under controlled conditions. Workshops are well equipped to attend to design changes and modifications - be they minor or major - under the highest quality standards, Refurbishing: A large, centralised and fully equipped facility is available for the rebuilding and refurbishing of ELB Equipment s products.

11 Product Portfolio: ELB Equipment is one of a few companies that can offer the industry such a wide selection of products from a single supplier. This includes: Construction Equipment: Trenching and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) equipment, pneumatic piercing tools and static- pneumatic- and lateral pipe bursting systems, backhoe loaders, skidsteer loaders (and attachments), motor graders, telescopic handlers, compaction equipment, Earthmoving Equipment: Dozers, landfill compactors, wheel loaders and tracked excavators, Mining/Recycling/Quarrying Equipment: Heavy rotary barrel screens, mobilemodular- and static crushers and screens, crushing and screening combo plants, mobile- modular and static washing systems, mobile conveyors, mobile feeders, truck unloaders, block makers, pneumatic- and hydraulic rock drills, hydraulic breakers, conveyor belting, and excavator attachments.

12 Engineering Services: Delivering Beyond ELB Engineering Services is an internationally recognised, technology driven holistic solutions provider to the mining, power, port, construction and industrial sectors in the field of materials handling, beneficiation plants and air quality control. This is achieved through innovation, supply of equipment and technology from our world class partners, in-house developed expertise and integration of the services and products from the ELB Group of companies. Our experience includes: Receipt of run-of-mine ore through to beneficiation, stockyard and in-plant and overland conveying, Loading of trucks and rail wagons, Turnkey solutions for industrial projects, Port construction and shipping, Small scale power plants. Offering flexible contracting options, ELB Engineering Services provides a comprehensive range of services: Technical audits, Conceptual, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, EPCM services, Complete project turnkey solutions, Refurbishments and/or upgrades, After-sales service.

13 Expectation Bulk Materials Handling ELB Bulk Materials Handling is a global leader in the supply of turnkey packages from receipt of raw material to ship loading equipment. All conveyor options belt, overland, pipe and quay, Stockyard equipment stackers, bridge/portal/bucket wheel reclaimers, Rapid train loading systems, Train off-loading systems and positioners, In-plant infrastructure, Ship backing equipment, Simulation modelling. Conveyor Maintenance As part of its full materials handling solution offering, ELB Engineering Services renders a complete, maintenance and fine-tuning service. From run-of-mine (ROM) tip to load out station at mines and from tippler to ship loader at port facilities, the focus is primarily on conveyors and associated equipment. Drawing on a high level engineering and intellectual base, the result is a world-class technical service.

14 Engineering Services: Engineering Soluti Industrial Projects ELB Industrial Projects offers a turnkey solution to the Industrial sector through our technology partners, in-house competency in civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation engineering and partnerships with FMCG process engineers. The technologies offered include: Fine Powder Handling: Pneumatic conveying, Train/truck loading/off-loading systems, Centralised vacuum systems. Air Pollution Control: Baghouses, Electrostatic precipitators, Flue gas desulphurisation system. Small Scale Power Plants: Coal, Biomass, Gas, Heavy fuel oils, Waste-to-Energy.

15 ons for Long Term Relationships Engineered Technologies ELB Engineered Technologies is a total solutions provider in the minerals and metals industries, specialising in the design and construction of process plants, as well as providing the associated supporting infrastructure. ELB Engineered Technologies offers complete process plants, including modular processing plants, for a variety of processing applications from coal, diamonds and gold to phosphate, iron ore, manganese and chrome. The modular concept solves the problem of a permanent facility when operations have to be moved to other locations. All off-the-shelf components used in ELB Engineered Technologies Modular Plants have proven track records and are sourced from well-established and respected suppliers to the industry. Motor control centre (MCC) and control rooms are incorporated into purpose built 40 foot containers, which are designed on a plug and play principle. ELB Engineered Technologies also offers wide experience in a range of technologies, with specialist expertise in Dense Media Separation (DMS), Spiraling and Gravity Concentration. Offerings include: Processing plants, Modular conveyors, Crushing and screening, Thickening technologies, Ore sorting, Magnetic separation, Milling, Flotation.

16 Engineering Services: Engineered to Port Terminal Refurbishment and Upgrade ELB Engineering Services total port solutions for the mining, industrial and power sectors offer a comprehensive range of services, including port infrastructure, marine handling and rail transport. Services range from the conception of the logistics supply chain through to the supply of turnkey packages from tippler to ship loading, including all conveyor options, stockyard equipment and simulation modelling. Construction ELB Engineering Services full suite of construction services, tailored to the needs of natural resource projects, range from site mobilisation through to fabrication, construction, erection, quality and materials control, safety management, hot and cold commissioning and handover. An extensive skills-set combined with top-of-the-range equipment delivers: Erection, refurbishments and shutdowns for greenfield and brownfield and large and small construction projects, Tight control over costing and project scheduling, delivering on time to clients complete satisfaction. Belt Splicing, Pulley Lagging and Rubber Lining ELB now offers belt splicing, pulley lagging and rubber lining services for optimized conveyor operation and service life, across Sub-Saharan Africa. Logistics ELB Engineering Services in-house logistics service is tailored to the needs of the heavy engineering industry and the individual requirements of the client, optimising savings in what can be a significant portion of the total project cost. The seamless logistics service features: Detailed logistics planning when work starts on a new tender, Specialist knowledge in the planning and co-ordination of abnormal loads, both throughout Africa and the rest of the world.

17 Deliver After-Sales Services and Life Extension ELB Engineering Services aftermarket support provides a comprehensive spare parts service for all its equipment, including equipment supplied by its technology partners and equipment obtained from other manufacturers when required. ELB Engineering Services offers a leading capability in the assessment, engineering and refurbishment of all equipment. Asset Management ELB Engineering Services has developed an innovative funding model to facilitate growing primarily the Junior Mining Sector, focusing on modular supplied plant and equipment. Value is added by funding the development of the mine, without the Mine Owner needing to spend his own capital, sacrifice equity or employ specialist engineering knowledge, in the interest of converting his mineral resource into profit.

18 B&W Instrumentation & Electrical: South A wholly-owned subsidiary of the ELB Group, B&W Instrumentation & Electrical (B&W) is one of South Africa s leading independent electrical and instrumentation (E&I) construction companies. Servicing the larger sub-saharan African region for more than 40 years, it provides specialist construction expertise to build fully functioning E&I plants, in accordance with design specifications. B&W offers a competent and experienced management team as well as a skilled field labour force, with registered offices in South Africa (Alberton and Secunda), Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Kenya and Tanzania. Established relationships with material suppliers enable the company to provide its products and services at competitive rates. B&W is currently one of the few ISO 9001:2008 accredited electrical and instrumentation contractors in Sub-Saharan Africa. This accreditation provides new clients with the same level of comfort as existing clients have gained over the years. It also provides a platform for independent audits to ensure that standards set are not only maintained, but continually improved where possible. B&W takes pride in its excellent health and safety records, which include a NOSA 5 star rating in occupational health and safety management and a three year consecutive award for best performing E&I contractor in South Africa. The company is proficient in all areas pertaining to electrical and instrumentation construction, which ensures that process plants can be operated and controlled from one or more centralised location(s). These areas include: Communication systems between various equipment, Outdoor substations, Power transmission (via overhead lines or cable), Intake switchyards, Civil/containerised substations/mccs, Field instrumentation, Profibus installations.

19 Africa s Leading E&I Construction Specialist Supplementary services include: Plant erection, Construction management and supervision, Equipment procurement, Material supply, Testing, Calibration and commissioning, Maintenance. Industries served by B&W include the infrastructure, mining, chemical, oil and gas, industrial and utilities, nuclear/power generation and renewable energy sectors. Training: In response to the skills shortage in southern Africa, B&W has invested substantially in field labour training to increase its skills pool. The company has its own fully equipped in-house training centre and is an accredited service provider through South Africa s Construction SETA. B&W implements training programmes in line with accredited South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) unit standards to advance employee skills and ensure trainees receive an accredited qualification. To determine the appropriate skills development required, B&W provides on-going on-the-job assessments. Long-term incentives ensure retention of core staff.

20 A Trusted Partner Ditch Witch Australia is the exclusive distributor of the world-renowned Ditch Witch brand of utility construction equipment for Australia & New Zealand. The range features the most efficient and durable drilling systems on the market and the most comprehensive range of underground utility construction equipment available under one brand. With seven facilities strategically located throughout Australia and New Zealand, Ditch Witch Australia provides a comprehensive range of services including production and planning advice, supply of equipment, spare parts, and after-sales service. The company has established a reputation as the premier service provider to the industry with extensively trained service technicians stationed around the country, mobile and available 24/7. Ditch Witch Australia considers itself a partner to the underground utility construction industry - not just a supplier - and this philosophy has allowed it to become the leader in the region for over seven consecutive years according to independently sourced market share figures. The company excels at close relationships with a niche industry, at supplying large, low-volume equipment, and at supporting high-service requirement machinery. Five years ago, the company ventured into a new market, as the exclusive distributor of the Komptech range of products. Though the waste market seems very dissimilar from the underground construction market, the company s core competencies have apply equally well to a trencher and a slow speed waste shredder. With Ditch Witch Australia bringing a new level of service and trustworthiness to the waste industry, the Komptech brand has rapidly risen to the fore and is already the leading brand in green waste processing and composting in the region.

21 Product Portfolio: Underground Utility Construction Horizontal directional drills including support systems, tooling and bits, Vacuum excavators for safe, excavation around underground utilities, Traditional trenchers, cable plows, and earth saws for pipeline and cable installation, Compact utility equipment including mini skid steer loaders and pedestrian trenchers, Microtunnelling, auger boring, and guided boring equipment, Pipe bursting and ramming machines, A range of electronics for utility location and drill guidance. Waste Processing Primary shredders for both green waste and general waste, Trommel screens and star screens for material sizing and sorting, Windrow turners to aid in the composting process, Various separating machines including ballistic separators and wind sifters, High speed grinders for land clearing, clean wood processing, and secondary shredding.

22 Building an Industry Leader The ELB Group traces its origins back to the early days of the 20th century and the enthusiasm and foresight of its founder, Edward L. Bateman, a young mechanical engineer and representative of Allis Chalmers, who established the company in While the original business of the company to market equipment imported from leading overseas manufacturers continues today, the services provided by the ELB Group have evolved significantly in scope and nature. To complement the range of earthmoving, mining and quarrying products, construction products were introduced, all now marketed under ELB Equipment - one of the most respected names in its respective industries, With the acquisition of Ditch Witch Australia, the ELB Group portfolio of products grew to include the renowned range of Ditch Witch underground and utility construction equipment., ELB Engineering Services was established to meet the demand for total engineered solutions in materials handling, industrial projects and more recently, process plants, The acquisition of B&W Instrumentation enabled the ELB Group to build fully functioning E&I plants as part of its total solutions offering. Recognised globally for the quality of service and equipment they offer, all four companies within the ELB Group are well positioned to contribute to the continuing growth of the Group as an acknowledged leader across its multiple fields of expertise.

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24 ELB Engineering Services: 345 Rivonia Boulevard Rivonia Sandton, South Africa Tel: ELB Equipment: 14 Atlas Road, Anderbolt Boksburg,1459 South Africa Tel: B&W Instrumentation and Electrical (Pty) Ltd 42 Fourth Avenue, Alberton North, South Africa Tel: Ditch Witch New Zealand: 24K Allright Place, Mt Wellington Auckland 1644, New Zealand Tel: Ditch Witch Australia: 9 Grex Avenue Minchinbury, NSW 2270 Australia Tel: