IBG
Absolute Instrument Technology

74 Kuyper Street, Schoemansville

tel:  
+27 12 253 0573
cell:  
+27 82 457 0301
email:  
[email protected]
url:  
www.abstech.co.za

Core business offering: General trading in all aspects of process control, industrial instrumentation and maintenance.


Du Plessis, Anthon
Director
[email protected]
Havenga, Gerrie
sales branch
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Modisane, Hope
Director
[email protected]
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(Shared Agency)
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(Sub Agency)
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(Sub Agency)
Magyn
(Shared Agency)
MaxAir (actuators)
(Sub Agency)
Melco Instrumentation
(Sub Agency)
Negretti & Zambra
(Sub Agency)
Noah Valve Actuation
(Sub Agency)
Process Technology
(Sole Agency)
Rotork
(Sub Agency)
Thermocouple Products
(Sub Agency)
Yantai Automation
(Sole Agency)
YTC Positioners
(Shared Agency)
Section - Miscellaneous Hardware
-Power
- Armoured
- PVC
- Silicon
-Signal
- Armoured
- Coaxial
- Computer, LAN
- Optical fibre
- Single conductor panel wires
-19" racking
-Cabinets
- Free-standing
- Industrial computers
- Wall mount
-EMC control
- Shielded enclosures
- Shielding laminates, gaskets, coating
-Thermal control
- Fans, blowers
- Heat exchangers/airconditioners
- Heatsinks
-Heavy duty power switching
-Reed relays
- Dry-contact
- Mercury-wetted
-Relays
- DIN-rail mount
- General purpose, control
- Plug-in
- Solid state (zero-crossing)
- Time delay
-Switches
- Foot-operated
- Intrinsically safe
- Key-lock
- Magnetic
- Membrane, custom
- Pushbutton-control
- Rocker
- Rotary selector
-Busbar
-Cable glands
-Cable grommets
-Cable jointing kits
-Cable sleeving
-Cable tie installing tools
-Cable ties
-Cable/terminal marking systems
-Cable/terminal marking systems (stainless steel)
-Cabling conduit
-Ducting, trunking
-Electrical power
-Fibre-optic jointing kit
-Heat-shrink guns
-Heat-shrink tubing
-Insulating tape, coloured
-Lacing cord/ribbon
-Mounting clips, clamps
-Sleeve application tools
-Connectorised buslines
-DIN rail-mount
-Fieldbus terminal blocks
-Fuse terminal blocks
-Screwless spring cage
-Tab connector blocks (panel)
-Thermocouple
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-Limit switches
-Pneumatic
-Valve position transmitters
- Valve positioners
-Control valves (applications)
- Cryogenic
- Globe - sanitary
- Safety release
- Slurry control
- Steam conditioning
-Control valves (type)
- Ball
- Butterfly
-Manifolds
-Pinch-type sleeve
-Rotary control valves
-Sliding/knife gate
-Solenoid
-Communications
- RS232
- RS422/RS485
-Inputs
- 0/4-20mA
- RTD
- Strain gauge
- Thermocouple
-Outputs
- Relay contact
-Panel size (mm)
- 150x150
- 24x48
- 48x48
- 48x96
- 72x72
- 96x96
-Flowmeters (type)
- Differential pressure (DP)
- Magnetic/electromagnetic
- Mass
- Open channel, flume, weir
- Orifice plate, flow nozzle
- Pelton wheel
- Pitot tube
- Positive displacement
- Solids
- Thermal dispersion/calorific
- Turbine
- Variable area
- Venturi tube
-Potable water meters
-Regulators
-Switches
-Loadcell
-Thermistor / thermal
-Cylinders
- Double acting
- Positioners
- Single acting
-Pneumatic conveying systems
-Pressure/vacuum switches
-Seals
-Tubes & fittings
-Valves
- Check
- Flow
- Gauge
- Isolation
- Manifolds
- Pressure
-Differential pressure transducers
-Instrument manifolds
-Manometers
-Pressure gauges/indicators
-Pressure switches
-Pressure-electrical transducers
-Regulators
- Self-acting pressure reducing
-Dosing/metering
-Heat flow monitors
-RTDs (Pt 100, Ni)
-Thermistors (PTC, NTC)
-Thermocouple extension cables
-Thermocouple reference units
-Thermocouples (Type S, T, etc)
-Thermowells
-Counters
- Rail mount
-Timers
- Analog
- Digital
- Panel mount
- Rail mount
-Differential pressure
-Level
-pH
-Pneumatic
-Pressure
-Resistance
-Temperature
Section - Services & Systems
Section - Test, Measurement & Calibration
-0/4-20 mA loop simulators/calibrators
-Deadweight testers
-Documenting process calibrators
-Flow calibrators
-Frequency, time simulators/calibrators
-Loop optimisation analysers & software
-mV simulators/calibrators
-Power, energy calibrators
-Pressure simulators/calibrators
-Strain gauge simulators/calibrators
-Temperature (dry block)
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