| 1987 |
M-Tech is founded as M-Tech Mechanical, a consulting engineering partnership focussing on specialized consultation work in the fields of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, computational mechanics and thermal-fluid systems design, as well as the development of the advanced thermal-fluid network code (then called) Flownet. |
| 1991 |
The owners of M-Tech start the company Enerflow Technologies (Pty) Ltd. that
focuses on the design and manufacturing of heat pumps for the large scale heating (and/or cooling) of sanitary water for buildings such as hotels, old age homes and university residences. Enerflow later merges with M-Tech. |
| 1993 |
Rolls Royce orders the first Flownet license from M-Tech. The order was later
upgraded to a company-wide license. |
| 1997 |
M-Tech becomes involved with the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project, winning a contract to develop a dynamic simulation model of the complete PBMR plant based on Flownet |
| 1999 |
The PBMR company places an order on M-Tech to redevelop and extend Flownet
according to standards in the nuclear industry. The redeveloped code, renamed
Flownex, has its first release in 2001. |
| 2000 |
M-Tech is incorporated as a private company with limited liability and the name is
officially changed to M-Tech Industrial (Pty) Ltd. |
| 2000 |
M-Tech achieves ISO 9001:1994 certification (with re-certification every three years
ever since). |
| 2002 |
Enerflow Technologies, which would later merge with M-Tech, wins the coveted
Eskom (Eta) Award for the best energy efficient design in the commercial sector. |
| 2002 |
M-Tech plays a key role in the design and record-time construction of the Pebble
Bed Micro Model (PBMM), that successfully demonstrated the operability of the closed three-shaft recuperated Brayton cycle. This cycle is similar to the one initially
proposed for the PBMR |
| 2003 |
M-Tech achieves ISO 9001:2000 certification. |
| 2005 |
Enerflow Technologies (Pty) Ltd. merges with M-Tech. |
| 2005 |
M-Tech secures a contract from the PBMR company for the design and
construction of the PBMR High Pressure Test Unit (HPTU). |
| 2006 |
M-Tech secures a contract from the PBMR company for the design and
construction of the PBMR High Temperature Test Unit (HTTU). |
| 2006 |
M-Tech is appointed as member of the Westinghouse consortium that wins the
tender for the pre-conceptual design of the USA Next Generation Nuclear Power
Plant (NGNP). |
| 2007 |
Royal Bafokeng Holdings obtains a 25.1% share in M-Tech. |
| 2007 |
M-Tech obtains its first official BBBEE scorecard with a Level 3 contributor score. |
| 2007 |
M-Tech is appointed to Eskom’s Panel B to provide owner's engineering services to
Eskom for their coal, gas and hydro new build program. |
| 2008 |
M-Tech forms part of the team that wins the Eskom Chairman's award for its wet
coal recovery project. |
| 2008 |
M-Tech successfully completes the testing phase of the High Pressure Test Unit for PBMR. |
| 2009 |
M-Tech releases Flownex® SE (Simulation Environment), a new enhanced version
of Flownex that enables users to do multi-disciplinary simulations using an open
architecture aimed at leveraging the power of parallel processing. |
| 2009 |
M-Tech achieves ISO 9001:2008 certification. |
| 2009 |
M-Tech completes the testing of the High Temperature Test Unit for PBMR with
approximately 40,000 injury free operational hours for this 1,600ºC facility. |
| 2009 |
M-Tech is audited by Westinghouse Electric Company of the USA based on NQA-1
requirements and subsequently listed on its suppliers list for Engineering Design of
Test Facilities for nuclear power plant applications. |
| 2009 |
M-Tech successfully completes an Innovation Fund Project to develop an Industrial
Plant Simulator platform (using Flownex® SE as its thermal fluid solver), that is
used in engineering and operator training simulators developments for various
thermal-fluid systems such as power stations. |
| 2010 |
M-Tech secures a DSM contract from Eskom to perform an energy efficiency
project at AngloGold Ashanti, involving heat pump retrofit installations at various
AngloGold mines (at that stage the biggest heat pump project of its kind ever
executed in South Africa). |
| 2010 |
Mediclinic decides to retrofit all of its South African hospitals with Enerflow heat
pumps. Several projects for Mediclinic to this extent is undertaken in 2010-2011. |
| 2010 |
The first 300kW Air Cooling Unit (ACU) prototype is installed at AngloGold
Mponeng mine, for a test phase. |
| 2011 |
M-Tech is awarded the Southern African agency for IDE Technologies Ltd., a world
leader in water desalination (including industrial, municipal, sea water). |
| 2011 |
The Generation Engineering Design Infrastructure (GEDI) project, which was executed with significant M-Tech involvement, is awarded the Eskom Group
Technology Manager's Award in the Vision category. |
| 2011 |
M-Tech once again achieves a Level 3 BBBEE scorecard. |
| 2011 |
The ESKOM industry energy efficiency champion eta award is won by James
Cruickshank of the Medi-Clinic group. His showcase project inter alia included
Enerflow water heating heat pumps that are locally manufactured and supplied by
M-Tech. |
| 2011 |
AngloGold Ashanti is the runner-up for the ESKOM eta award in the industrial
energy efficiency category based on their compressor and pipe optimisation
project. This project made use of M-Tech’s Flownex simulation software suite. |
