PTT - Powertech Transformers

Powertech Transformers is 80% owned by Power Technologies (Pty) Ltd, the largest power-electrical group in Southern Africa and 20% by Power Matla, a local black empowered company. Powertech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Altron (Allied Electronics Corporation Limited) and is focused on delivering advanced technologies for the creation, management, distribution, storage and use of electricity across industries.

Power and distribution transformers for the African continent are manufactured by Powertech Transformers in its factories in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The power transformer factory in Pretoria West is a well-equipped factory and is among the biggest and most sophisticated transformer manufacturing plants within the Southern Hemisphere and one of two large manufacturers within sub-Saharan Africa.

PTT supplies a full range of transformers, from generator step-up to transmission and distribution transformers. The range includes three-phase and single-phase units, auto-transformers, arc-furnace, locomotive and traction transformers, miniature sub-stations, NECRT’s as well as shunt reactors. PTT has also recently entered into the renewable power market which has resulted in orders being placed for several projects.