‘Ongoing product development and innovation’ is a catch phrase many companies use to market themselves, but in reality nothing much changes in terms of the products and each ear it pretty much looks the same as the previous year.

Celebrating 25 years in business this year is Johannesburg-based Brelko Conveyor Products, which markets a range of cleaning equipment designed to assist in the control of spillage, carryback and dust in conveyor systems and promote the free flow of material at transfer and load points.

Visiting Brelko, one of the foremost conveyor product manufacturers in the world, has always been an entertaining experience because managing director Kenny Padayachee effortlessly makes his visitors feel at ease and comfortable.

“This is a big year for Brelko,” says Kenny Padayachee, managing director of Brelko, with a conspiratorial waggling of his eyebrows. “we’re twenty this year, and we’re involved in a number of developments which will push Brelko forward.

Walking through Brelko’s facility in Johannesburg is always a pleasure and when accompanied by managing director, Kenny Padayachee, it becomes a long remembered experience where one not only learns about engineering ingenuity but also gets an insight into the philosophy that has made an exceptional company.

Kenny Padayachee is a man who is proud of his business. And it shows when he talks about it. This is probably one of the reasons why he has built Brelko into a leading supplier of conveyor products