About Metraclark	Company Core Values
Distribution	Company Vision & Mission
The history of Metraclark	Environmental Services: Refrigerant Recovery/Recycling
Heat Pumps vs Solar Water Heating- the debate continues...	Metraclark acquires Phoenix Racks
Contaminated Refrigerant Explosion kills 3 people

About Metraclark

Metraclark is the largest Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning wholesaler in Southern Africa and is wholly owned by G&L Beijer AB, a Swedish based company listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Metraclark has exclusive distribution rights to Emerson products (Copeland, Alco and Dixell) as well as Carrier residential air-conditioning systems, and offers the widest range of quality products and availability backed with skilled, experienced and honourable employees. Recam, a division of Metraclark, is a leading heat exchanger and compressorised product manufacturer

Company Core Values

Metraclark does business as follows:
• Honourable & ethical business practices
• Committed customer support & service
• Employee development
• Continuous product development resulting in reduced environmental impact of our products
• Build and maintain customer and supplier relationships
• Help to improve the general standard of living by making cost effective food preservation and comfort cooling products available throughout Southern Africa

Distribution

Products is distributed through 23 sales outlets across South Africa with a additional dedicated Export office in Johannesburg. We also have branches in Windhoek Namibia, Gaborone and Francistown in Botswana. Metraclark also have agents in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. These outlets are replenished from 2 central warehouses based in Johannesburg.

Please go to the "Branches" tab on top for details on location and contact numbers for all branches.

Company Vision & Mission

Vision
Metraclark envisages being the best known and most trusted supplier of quality, efficient refrigeration and air conditioning components and systems throughout southern Africa. We also strive to be the leaders in innovation and experience through the continued development and training of our employees.

Mission
Support our customers with friendly, skilful and reliable service and expertise. Deliver refrigeration and air-conditioning products with the highest quality in the most efficient manner.

The history of Metraclark

• 1997 Dorbyl amalgamated it’s three refrigeration wholesale companies namely Metek, Refrigeration Agencies (RA) and JL Clark to form Metraclark
• 1997 Carrier SA acquired Metraclark
• 2002 Metraclark and Carrier were united under one MD
• 2006 Metraclark rebranded itself as Carrier
• 2009 G&L Beijer AB from Sweden acquired Metraclark from Carrier

Environmental Services: Refrigerant Recovery/Recycling

Metraclark in conjunction with it's refrigerant supplier A-GAS are able to offer dedicated cylinders for the recovery and recycling of refrigerant. This follows on the promulgation of SANS 10147 which prohibits the venting of refrigerants into the atmosphere. These cylinders are available in 8kg and 45kg capacities.

Recovery cylinders are used for the return to A-Gas of used/contaminated refrigerant. A-Gas undertakes to store this refrigerant until such time as it can be properly destroyed.

Pump Down Cylinders are iused as temporary storage for refrigerant on site while a system is being serviced or repaired. These cylinders are fully cleaned with each return to A-GAS thereby ensuring you receive an uncontaminated cylinder each time you require one.

Heat Pumps vs Solar Water Heating- the debate continues...

The debate continues over the pros and cons of solar water heating as opposed to reverse cycle heat pump technology. See the informative article under the "Products - Water Heaters" tab of our website in order to broaden your viewpoint....

Metraclark acquires Phoenix Racks

Acquisition Announcement

It is with great pleasure that Metraclark announces the acquisition of Phoenix Racks (Pty) Ltd from its current shareholders effective 1 September 2011.

Phoenix Racks was established in 1999 and has developed as a reputable manufacturer of refrigeration equipment for the commercial refrigeration market.

We believe that the acquisition of Phoenix Racks will strengthen Metraclark’s position as the leading supplier of commercial refrigeration equipment. Based in Cape Town this will give us a stronger platform to service the Western and Eastern Cape markets.

Phoenix Racks will continue to operate along the same principles as it has developed over the last 11 years, retaining its own identity and relationship with customers and suppliers. The current management, sales and manufacturing teams and employees will remain with Phoenix and continue to provide their customers with the same excellent level of service and high quality products.

We as Metraclark look forward to adding value and growing the successful business of Phoenix Racks.

Metraclark thanks the previous shareholders and the employees of Phoenix for their cooperation and support for making this transaction possible.

For any additional information please contact Jurie Benade, Johan Jooste, Klaus Korb,
Kevin Schlemmer or Kjell Svensson.

Jurie Benade
Managing Director

Contaminated Refrigerant Explosion kills 3 people

As a matter of importance and urgency we would like to bring to your immediate attention information we have received of a recent incident involving counterfeit refrigerant that has led to 3 fatalities. Please have a look at the three links below.

These articles once again highlight the extreme dangers and harmful effects associated with the use of counterfeit refrigerants, all of which we are sure most people are not aware of. According to the articles a substance within the counterfeit refrigerant had an extreme reaction to the aluminium in the compressor forming a dangerous flammable substance that ignites spontaneously when in contact with air. As you are well aware we have identified inferior refrigerant all around South Africa mainly in the R22 and R134a product range but more recently and not surprisingly we’ve identified a batch of inferior R410A.

Also attached is our article on inferior products which we published in the Cold Chain earlier this year, given the nature of this it’s extremely important to share this with our customers, warning them about the potential dangers when buying disposables from non-reputable sources.

http://www.acr-news.com/news/news.asp?id=2641&title=Methyl+chloride+to+blame+for+reefer+explosions%3F     

http://www.acr-news.com/news/news.asp?id=2643&title=Now+Bock+warns+of+methyl+chloride+in+fake+refrigerants

http://www.acr-news.com/news/news.asp?id=2645&title=Calls+for+controls+on+methyl+chloride

If you require any information on having product tested by the A-Gas laboratory or advice on more environmentally sustainable and safe packaging please don’t hesitate to contact us.  We trust by sharing and educating our customers on this very important matter it will allow us the opportunity to promote our quality products and small returnable cylinders which as you know is a far safer form of packaging and remain more cost effective!

A-Gas (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd