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Afcon Supplier Profile

Afcon profiles Carel's Stuart Williams

Over the last 20 years Stuart has cultivated his knowledge at Cool Power, Barlows, Samsung, SANBS, and now at Carel. Currently Stuart’s focus is on expanding Carel’s brand name and sales in the KZN and Eastern Region.

Much like our last Customer Profile feature, Craig Scott, (click to view this article), Stuart enjoys the challenges that the industry and his job offers, namely providing high efficiency controls for each unique customer's need and project, at a competitive rate. Once this has been achieved Stuart enjoys site visits, where he can view the controls in action, and ultimately the successful job.

Carel Control’s products have been successfully used across many industries, including pharmaceutical, diary and retail. Over the last three years Stuart has been involved in many successful projects. One of these being the new Dairy Day dairy in Howick, as well as another with Cipla. Stuart was also involved in the installation of Carel’s first HEOS, water loop refrigeration system, in Durban.

Stuart’s impact at Carel can be seen by the considerable increase in Carel sales that have been achieved over the last three years, with Afcon being one of the its most successful wholesalers.

The main applications of Onda brazed plate heat exchangers is for the evaporation and condensation of refrigerant gas in air-conditioning and refrigeration plants, the hot water production in heat pumps and heat recovery. Onda's brazed plate heat exchangers are compatible with all modern refrigerants.

Only top quality materials are used in the manufacture the ONDA brazed plate heat exchangers.  The Plate heat exchangers are made from Stainless steel thickness 0.0138” (316L type), the connections are also Stainless steel (304L type) and the brazing material is copper. 

Afcon is the sole importer of Onda Brazed Plate Heat Exchangers in South Africa.  Contact our heat exchanger department - Afcool Heat Exchangers

Afcon's stand at the SAIRAC GOLF Day

The SAIRAC Golf Day held on Friday 8th September, was the usual success and very well supported by the industry, with a record field of 38 four balls.  Thank you to Tarryn Ching for her exceptional organisation.  As always it is fantastic to meet our fellow HVAC&R colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere.

For the third year running Afcon sponsored the 11th hole.  We thank all of you who visited our hole, and are certain the banter and cheer experienced cannot have been rivalled by any other.  It was a glorious day out on the course in sunny Durban.  Our congratulations to the winners of the day and to the Airconditioning Project's four ball who won the SAIRAC trophy.

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This week we sat down with Craig Scott, of CS Air, to chat about where he started, where he is now, and everything in between.

Craig has been in the HVAC industry for 25 years, and first entered it at Republic Refrigeration and Airco, where his interest was sparked and he began his apprenticeship. Craig went on to work for Republic Refrigeration and Airco for two years thereafter, before moving to ACS, Air-conditioning and Pump Installations, where he worked for the next 10 years.

In 1999 Craig opened his own company and CS Air was born. Over the respective 18 years CS Air has worked on many exciting projects, and found it’s specialty in central plants particularly chilled water plants.

A current example of an exciting project that CS Air is working on, is the systems installation for the new Cornubia Virgin Active. Virgin Active has been a client of CS Air for nearly 25 years, and CS Air has been involved in the majority of Natal’s Virgin Active installations. Another project that CS Air has been able to “sink their teeth into” of late, is the new Sibaya Dunes development, which involves the installation of large Samsung VRV systems in the presidential apartments.

Craig is very passionate about what he does, and he states that his passion comes from his love of the challenge the HVAC industry provides. One of the major challenges of the industry is the technological advancements, which companies must keep abreast of. However Craig stated, that with the support of suppliers who bring in products that allow CS Air to provide the greatest efficiency and cost effectiveness to its clients, these challenges can be overcome.