CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 63

PCB AWARDS

Mike Wolhuter (right), managing director of Pressure Die Castings
(PDC), and Graham Smith, PDC commercial director, with their 2014
Nedbank PCB Business of the Year award from the Pietermaritzburg
Chamber of Business. PHOTO: Barry du Plessis

PDC’s people have made it a winner

P

ressure Die Castings (Pty) Ltd was
named Business of the Year 2014
in the manufacturing sector, at
the annual Nedbank PCB Business
Awards late last year.
This 62-year-old Pietermaritzburg-based
company was commended by the competition’s adjudicators for the passion and
strong business drive shown by its management, and for maintaining a competitive edge, both locally and internationally.

PDC is arguably the largest brass foundry
in the country, recycling around 150
tons of brass from scrap every month for
the manufacture of a range of products.
These include brass alloy window and
door handles, brass components for highvoltage insulator cut-outs, brass sprinkler
heads in large volumes, and aluminium
window and door handles.
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