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AUTOMATION AND CONTROL

consumption of Belgium, Finland or the Philippines and more than the total annual “While our role at ABB is to always
consumption of Chile. provide the most efficient technologies,
Regulatory policies are among the main drivers of industrial investment in products and services to our customers,
energy efficiency around the globe. While the European Union will be implementing and continue to innovate for ever greater
its Ecodesign Regulation (EU 2019/1781) this year, which sets out stringent new efficiency, that in itself is not enough.
requirements for an expanding range of energy efficient motors, many countries All stakeholders need to work together
have yet to take action. to bring about a holistic transformation
in how we use energy. By acting and
To take advantage of the tremendous opportunities afforded by energy efficient innovating together, we can keep critical
drives and motors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ABB says all stakeholders services up and running while saving
have a critical role to play: energy and combatting climate change,”
• public decision makers and government regulators need to incentivise their concludes Wierod.
rapid adoption; ABB’s white paper ‘Achieving the
• businesses, cities and countries need to be aware of both the cost savings and Paris Agreement: The Vital Role of
environmental advantages and be willing to make the investment; and High-Efficiency Motors and Drives in
• investors need to reallocate capital towards companies better prepared to Reducing Energy Consumption’ can be
address the climate risk. downloaded here. n

APPOINTMENTS

Liquid Intelligent New deputy vice president for
Technologies appoints Dormakaba South Africa
Sandile Ntsele as
chief financial officer Multi-national security group Dormakaba
has appointed Craig Luck as its deputy vice
Liquid Intelligent Technologies president for Sub-Saharan Africa with effect from
(Liquid), a pan-African technology 18 January 2021. Additionally, he will be taking
group, has appointed Sandile over as the managing director of Dormakaba
Ntsele as chief financial officer (CFO) for its South from Shaun Frayne, who will be taking up the role of international key
Africa operations, effective 15 April 2021. accounts manager.
Sandile has extensive experience working in senior Previously, Luck was the MD of Modrac, a computer and data
finance roles, most recently as the CFO for MTN South centre OEM based in Sandton, for more than ten years before joining
Africa. He will be instrumental in overseeing Liquid ICT solutions provider Alviva Group in Midrand as divisional director.
South Africa’s corporate and financial strategy as Subsequently, Luck managed his own business which specialised in
the organisation repositions itself and optimises its the supply of the entire spectrum of turnkey systems and management
network and technological capabilities to deliver on solutions within ICT infrastructure.
its corporate vision of enabling a digitally connected
future that leaves no African behind.
Sandile is a chartered accountant in South Epson appoints third party network
Africa and a member of the South Africa Institute of manager for the Africa region
Chartered Accountants (SAICA), having completed his
chartered accountancy training at Deloitte and Touche. Epson has appointed Wisani Makhubela as its third
In a career spanning over 20 years, he has worked in party network manager, responsible for ensuring
both African and Middle East markets, and he brings Epson’s service network is in place and effective in
this rich experience to Liquid. West, East and Southern Africa.
Commenting on his appointment, Sandile In addition to supporting the day-to-day
said: “Liquid has been at the forefront of providing management of Epson’s service partners, Ms. Makhubela will ensure that
intelligent technologies and resilient connectivity to KPIs, service quality, and the required standards set out in the contractual
its customers for a long time. I look forward to joining agreements are achieved. She brings over 24 years’ experience to her new
Liquid South Africa’s dynamic leadership team, leading role and joins Epson from Bombardier Aerospace/Dehavilland Aircraft of
its local finance department and contributing to the Canada Limited, where she was the regional customer services account
organisation’s future success as it progresses to the manager for the MEA region. Before that, she worked at Hewlett-Packard,
next phase of its strategy”. Dell Computer and Microsoft.

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