Afrox infrastructure
With a very wide customer base, the Afrox business operates on an impressive plant, manufacturing and branch infrastructure. The company has branches in South Africa and in 15 other African countries, a logistics and distribution fleet as well as a significant distributor network and the largest population of gas cylinders in circulation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Bulk and Tonnage
Afrox’s Bulk and Tonnage business boasts a sophisticated infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa from which customers are serviced with large volumes of gases. Afrox supplies its customers by bulk road tankers, pipeline, or gas producing pressure swing absorption (PSA) plants. The main products supplied are oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide and hydrogen by means of 11 strategically-sited plants in southern Africa and over 20 gas producing PSAs, mainly sited on customer premises.

Packaged Gas and Products
In South Africa, the PGP business supplies industrial and medical of gases, special gases and food-grade mixtures as well as propellants and refrigerant gases delivered to customers in bulk, mini-bulk or in cylinders of several sizes. Medical oxygen and other medical grade gases are supplied to the healthcare sector for use in public and private hospitals, general practitioners’ surgeries and the homecare market.
Afrox Safety offers a head-to-toe range of personal protective equipment, keeping people safe in their work environment. This includes the provision of self-contained, light-weight, self-rescue apparatus, which allow miners, in particular, to escape hazardous conditions and events.
Afrox also manufactures and markets a wide range of welding, cutting and safety products, offering many thousands of different items. Its welding and cutting products have also secured a significant market position in Australia and New Zealand and are also being sold into many other countries in South East Asia, Europe and South America.

LPG (Handigas)
Afrox pioneered the LPG business in South Africa in the early 1950s when it imported LPG in cylinders from the UK. Development of the Afrox infrastructure in the 1980s was synonymous with the growth of LPG in the Afrox portfolio, which was boosted by the acquisition of two existing large-scale LPG businesses in South Africa in the early 1990s, followed by other distributor operators in Botswana and Mozambique and the introduction of a hospitality packaged gases service to the restaurant, pub and entertainment industries.
Today, the Handigas brand is the largest selling brand of LPG in southern Africa and has a significant and growing presence in the company’s sub-Saharan operations.

Engineering Services
Afrox's Customer Engineering Services (CES) specialises in tailor-made Turnkey Gas Reticulation systems and other piped services. CES approaches projects on a partnership basis with our customers. For the duration of the project, the team becomes an extension of the customer's organisation, as CES co-ordinates project development from the conceptual stage right through to commissioning support and handover, including process development, troubleshooting, management services and telemetry/remote monitoring of the customer process. The CES team's engineering skills play a major role in the customer's project team. These skills and high standards have enabled Afrox to position its self and a supplier of choice in the large and medium on site industrial and commercial bulk gas markets.

Enabling Functions

Customer Service Centres
Afrox’s businesses operate throughout sub - Saharan Africa in 16 countries. The customer service centre handles southern Africa’s customer orders, debt collection, account queries, product advice and distribution scheduling of cylinder gases and welding products.

Financial Services Centre
The financial services centre, for the gases and welding business, is responsible for processing all financial data and transactions generated on a day-to-day basis.

Human Resources Centre
The human resources centre manages and processes all employee enquiries and administration.

Bulk Gas Distribution Centre
The bulk gas distribution centre focuses on bulk liquid gas distribution and provides a routing, scheduling and packaging service for the tonnage and bulk gases side of the business.