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Wadeville Site Details:
INEOS Silicas South Africa 169 Tedstone Road PO Box 14016 Wadeville 1422 Gauteng South Africa
Tel: +27 11 820 7111
Jacob Site Details:
Tel: +27 31 460 8111/8105
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Wadeville Site
The Head Office is located at the Wadeville site near Johannesburg. In addition to the marketing of INEOS Silicas products, both locally manufactured and imported, South Africa has a joint venture with Quaker Chemical Corporation, USA which markets a range of speciality lubricants. The JV’s products are toll manufactured by INEOS Silicas South Africa at its coastal site near Durban. Manufacturing operations at the Wadeville site comprise of the dissolving of silicate glasses to make a range of sodium and potassium silicate liquors. A new facility for manufacturing the sodium silicate liquors was constructed and commissioned in 1999. Industries serviced out of the Wadeville plant include mining, metallurgical, detergents, water treatment and synthetic fuels. Personnel in INEOS Silicas South Africa and the Quaker JV total 66 with 26 based at Wadeville and the balance at the Company’s coastal site at Jacobs.
Jacobs Site
Silicate products have been manufactured on the Jacobs site for the past forty years. Currently, a range of sodium silicate glasses are manufactured in a regenerative furnace, for supply either to the Wadeville site to make liquors, or for export. More recently, a oil manufacturing facility has been established at the site in which a range of formulated specialty lubricants are produced for the Quaker Chemical South Africa joint venture. Both manufacturing facilities on the site are ISO 9002 listed. Following a major focusing and upgrade of the manufacturing facilities, personnel based at the Jacobs site currently total 40. Access to Information Act  |
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