GEFRAN: Process Automation, Southern Africa

GEFRAN: Industrial process automation - offered by unitemp

Gefran process automation & sensing:
Dedicated agent + technical support for sub-saharan Africa

We, foremerly unitemp cc, were appointed by GEFRAN, Italy in 1996 as agency for the Southern African region. We supply their comprehensive range of process automation components & offer dedicated technical services + user training.

Gefran designs and produces complete automation systems, sensors & transducers for controlling & managing industrial processes across various industries.

Through constant knowledge exchange & the deployment of Gefran products specifically into the Plastics and Packaging Industry, we continue to assist customers in optimising their technological processes, ensuring consistency and product quality.

Technical service & support

We offer technical workshops for electrical foremen, supervisors, instrumentation technicians across industries to ensure that machines with Gefran components are optimally tuned for best production output.

In addition to the Gefran range of products being sold from our Cape Town & Johannesburg branches, we have authorised resellers in most areas of South Africa.
We empower our extended sales team with on-going training to ensure that professional advice and support is given to our clients.

GEFRAN components for industrial process automation

Our comprehensive GEFRAN product range includes process controllers | indicators | frequency meters/ counters/ timers | pressure- & melt-pressure-sensors | displacement transducers | load/ force transducers | 4 - 20mA/0 - 10V solid state relays, 3 - 32V SSRs, Power SSRs (Wattcor) & drives.

GEFRAN agency for Southern Africa since 1996: the partnership

GEFRAN headquarters in Italy: Constant knowledge exchange with unitemp - for deployments across Southern Africa	GEFRAN automation for plastic film extrusion machines & injection moulding processes	2013
2011
unitemp exhibits GEFRAN automation solutions at the Process Expo in Johannesburg	unitemp rep discussing control applications with client from the plastics & packaging industry	GEFRAN showcase: Solid State Relays & PID Controllers for simplification of automation tasks.
	2010
GEFRAN principles visit unitemp South Africa: Flavio Simonini & Massimo Bass (Gefran Italy) with Dieter Bütow (unitemp Africa)	The unitemp sales consultants in Cape Town receiving user training & technical insights from the GEFRAN principles.
Integrated GEFRAN solutions by unitemp: Solid State Relay + Heatsink	Turnkey solutions by unitemp: Control Panels	2008
2006
International supplier conference at the GEFRAN headquarters in Italy	(Far right): Dieter Bütow (Sales Director unitemp) in discussion with Gefran Italy on latest automation solutions for the processing industry
GEFRAN pressure sensors: Supplied by unitemp	GEFRAN Solid State Switches for the food processing industry	2005
2003
PLAST 2003, Milan, Italy: unitemp joins GEFRAN in exhibiting their dedicated solutions	GEFRAN launches Extruder Control System	Clients discussing the advantages of GEFRAN's control system for plastics extrusion lines
unitemp in the (Plasti)news: Lectures on process optimisation held for the Plastics Institute of Southern Africa (PISA)	Andrew Semple (unitemp specialist for GEFRAN process control) + Vishnu Colan (PISA KZN chairman)	Hans Hitzeroth (General Manager unitemp) answers questions by plastics manufacturers at the PISA conference on competitive process control.
Hans Hitzeroth & Andrew Semple of unitemp giving advanced user training for Gefran PID control in Cape Town		2002
Hans Hitzeroth during hands-on Gefran PID Control training: Configuration & fault finding techniques	Gefran 600 temperature controller: Practical configuration training	Instrumentation technicians gaining insights into temperature cycling & PID parameters
2001
unitemp at the PROCESS Expo, Johannesburg: GEFRAN process control solutions	GEFRAN 600 demo unit
process instrumentation roadshow, Western Cape	unitemp client year-end function: Demonstration of heat/ cool control loop	1999
1997
GEFRAN temperature control solutions	unitemp: Turnkey temperature control systems to customer specification	Dieter Bütow with the first UniCon: Hotrunner Control System with GEFRAN PID controllers.
unitemp expands its specialist range of industrial heating, temperature sensors & GEFRAN process control		1996