Reliable electricity is the backbone of the cold chain. Innovations in energy infrastructure not only protect revenue for utilities but also ensure consistent power supply to temperature-sensitive storage, transport, and processing facilities. Power Process Systems’ locally developed enclosures and anti-vandal solutions can help safeguard critical cold chain operations against outages, theft or tampering, reducing risk to perishable goods.
As South Africa’s energy landscape evolves, one local company is proving that home-grown innovation can lead the way. Power Process Systems (PPS), a South African original equipment manufacturer (OEM) established in 1993, has become a national benchmark for infrastructure protection and industrial resilience, developing electrical enclosure solutions that keep the lights on, safeguard infrastructure, and strengthen revenue collection for utilities.
With over 30 years of continuous innovation, PPS has built a reputation for transforming everyday engineering challenges into globally recognised solutions. Its facilities, located in Johannesburg and Cape Town, are a hub of local ingenuity – combining design, precision manufacturing and advanced material engineering to produce robust, secure and intelligent enclosures that meet the complex needs of municipalities and utilities.
Innovation born from necessity
The PPS story began amid a safety crisis in Alexandra, Johannesburg, when Eskom faced widespread risks from unsafe street-level kiosks. Replacing them entirely was financially unfeasible, so PPS was tasked with finding a creative, cost-effective alternative.
“We were approached to offer a solution and developed a shroud which could be placed over the entire kiosk and locked to the existing structure. Eskom then used these to cover all unsafe street boxes,” explains Nhlanhla Zondo, director at PPS.
That practical innovation laid the foundation for what would later evolve into PPS’s flagship product, the smart I-Kiosk, a fully fitted meter and distribution kiosk that has since become a world-first solution in anti-vandal, intelligent infrastructure protection.
Source: PPS