Flexenclosure, a designer and manufacturer of prefabricated data centre buildings and intelligent power management systems for the ICT industry, has opened a new office in Johannesburg to serve its growing number of customers in Africa.
The new office, which is located in the Business Centre in Fourways just north of Johannesburg, was opened on 1 September and is headed by Caria Tissari di Costa, Flexenclosure’s sales director for Africa.
Flexenclosure is a fast growing supplier of advanced infrastructure for the information and communications technology industries. Its two key products are eSite, a hybrid power system for off-grid and bad-grid cell sites that can cut diesel costs by up to 90%, and eCentre, custom-designed, prefabricated data centre buildings that are fast to deploy, energy efficient and easy to expand.
The need for speed of deployment and the benefits of prefabricated data centre buildings, as well as the trend towards energy efficient and green power solutions, have made Flexenclosure’s products increasingly popular. The company is experiencing triple digit order growth so far this year and expects revenues to increase to $55-million to $60-million for 2014.
Recent orders and deployments on the mother continent include a data centre for Airtel Sierra Leone, an energy centre for Vodacom Tanzania, eSites for Inwi in Morocco and Helios Towers in Nigeria, a turnkey communications centre for ACS in Angola and a data centre for MTN Côte d’Ivoire.