SERVACO PPS LIMITED
Partnership, Professionalism, Solutions
West Africa’s one-stop industrial shop
As a leading supplier of high quality industrial and mining products, technical services and innovative solutions, Servaco PPS Limited can class itself as a truly all-encompassing industrial provider in the West African subregional market.
Celebrating its 20th year in 2018, the Company’s rise to full turnkey status is all the more remarkable when analysing its humble beginnings; where the initial entity, Process & Plant Sales
Ghana Ltd (PPS) solely operated from its native country, Ghana.
Subsequently, by virtue of capital injection and strategic investments in 2013 and 2014, Servaco PPS has since gone on to establish a unique identity, not just in Ghana, but across the wider region; and now offers more than
100 products from 16 of the world’s leading industrial brands.
“This is more than any other local supplier in West Africa, enabling the Company to meet customers’ industrial needs right across the supply chain,” introduces Managing Director, Rudolph Matey. “Servaco PPS’ sales team are experts in their fields; trained engineers who appreciate their customers’ needs and understand the very latest innovations and technology to help increase their productivity. “Over the years, Servaco PPS has grown steadily
to become a leading supplier of industrial consumables and services to the mining, quarry and construction; industrial; oil & gas/marine; and power, water and telecom sectors in West Africa.”
Thriving as both a flexible and customisable facilitator of each respective industry, and indeed a turnkey provider able to oversee all industrial applications; strategic hubs in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone now host a knowledge staff and expertise that represents a sector yardstick in the region.
Rudolph continues: “Our current business activities are focused on four sectors: power, water and telecom; mining, quarrying and construction; oil, gas and marine; and general industrial.
“The former especially is booming in West Africa with more than 25 power generation, transmissions and distribution companies in West Africa. To this sector, Servaco PPS serves power generations, barges, renewable energy producers, telecoms companies, power transmitters and distributors, and community water and sanitation
plants.”
Of course, the second facet of mining, quarrying and construction forms a pivotal portion of West African economy; as does the oil, gas and marine domain where Servaco PPS serves ports, harbours and docks as well as a host of oil exploration and production companies, oil refineries, gas processing plants, floating barges and many more operators.
“West Africa is home to some of the continent’s fastest growing economies, many of which are fuelled by the vibrant marine, oil and gas industries,” Rudolph says. “Oil & gas exploration in selected countries has resulted in many opportunities for these states, which are at different stages of economic development.”
Total quality
The final strand addresses the rapid industrialisation that is occurring across the region at present in conjunction with all aforementioned sectors. Transforming both businesses and indeed wider economies, the opportunities arising from industrialisation are rife and Servaco PPS consequently represents countless global brands as sole distributers, agents or dealers to this end.
Oil refineries, flour mills, sugar mills, plantations, pharmaceuticals, breweries, manufacturing, agriculture, transport and cosmetics reflect just a minute percentage of this particular division, and - alongside the oil & gas segment - are beginning to match up to Servaco PPS’ previously paramount attentions which focused largely on mining and construction domains.
“Our diversification programme is on course to reduce our overexposure to the risk associated with the mining industry and the oil & gas sector seems to be the sector with most potential for the growth of our business,” Rudolph confirms in demonstrating agility as part of the Company’s continuous improvement ethos. “Throughout the Company’s evolution, our continuous improvement strategies have centred on the total quality management concept (TQM) which focuses primarily on customer satisfaction, employee involvement, process enhancements, and communication. Essentially, Servaco’s total quality management is something that is integrated into every practice within the Company in order to strive for excellence within all business components.”