Agro-Processing & Agriculture

Food, beverage, fibre, forestry and agro-processing

• Horticulture including fruit, vegetables, nuts, tea and coffee

• Field Crops Processing

• Animal Protein, including red/white meat, aquaculture, poultry etc.

• Forestry

Chemicals, Medical & Industrial Mineral Products

• Upstream and downstream chemicals

• Pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemicals and botanical products

• Plastic products, including plastics recycling

• Glass, ceramics, concrete and stone products

• Medical devices

• Man-made fibres

• Recycling

• Rubber products

Machinery, Equipment & Electronics

• Electricity Generation, Transmission, And Distribution

· Transformers, generators, electricity supply components, inverters, switchgear, related measuring devices/apparatus, and plant balance.

· Manufacture of Accumulators, Primary Cells and Primary Batteries

•  Mining, Quarrying And Construction

· Self-propelled, off-road machinery & equipment for mining and construction sectors

· Equipment for sorting, screening, separating, or washing, crushing & grinding for stones/ores and other minerals.

· Yellow metal or component manufacturers and suppliers into these final products.

•  Pump Valves And Instrumentation

· Valves

· Pumps

· Measuring Equipment

· Distribution components such as ducts, vessels, heat exchangers, pumps, valves actuators, compressors and measuring equipment.

•  Logistics, Lifting And Handling Equipment

· Cranes, lifts, elevators, conveyors, and weight measuring equipment.

· Specialised parts for lifting and handling including buckets, shovels, grabs.

• Electronics In The Technology And Digital Equipment Space

· Professional and scientific equipment, television, radio, and communication equipment are attractive sectors in which we could intervene.

· Manufacture of television and radio transmitters.

· Measuring, checking, testing and navigation appliances

· Manufacture of Households Appliances,

•  Manufacturing

· Agricultural and forestry machinery

· Tractors, harvesters, and farming implements

· Processing equipment (food, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals)

· Bottling plants, packaging lines, filling equipment

· Textiles and apparel equipment

· Weaving, knotting, dying, printing machines, looms

· Ovens, Furnaces, and Burners

· Manufacture of Machine Tools

Energy

 Renewable Energy , Energy Storage Technologies, Hydrogen Fuel/Power, Fuel Cells, Distributed Generation, Mini and Micro Grids, Energy Efficiency and Management.

 For own use by companies in the Commercial & Industrial (C&I) space,

• By Independent Power Producers (IPPs) for sale under long term off-take agreements, such as Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)

• Energy Intensive Users, such as mines, chemicals processing companies, smelters, etc

• Other C&I companies

• Eskom under any of the Government’s Independent Power Producers Procurement

Textiles & Wood Products

Textiles

• Clothing manufacturing

• Natural fibre production, including wool and mohair beneficiation

• Synthetic fibre production

• Leather tanning; and leather product manufacturing

• Footwear manufacturing

• Spinning of yarns, knitting and weaving of products

• Non-woven textile production

• Dyeing, printing and finishing of fabrics

• Household textile production

Wood

• Saw milling activities

• Paper and pulp manufacturing (all forms)

• Paper based packaging production

• Furniture production

Tourism & Services

In general, the Tourism and Services SBU may consider funding for start up’s and expansions, as well as refurbishments, and acquisitions of existing establishments.

General Criteria

Minimum Requirements

• Compliance with international environmental standards.

• Shareholders/owners are expected to make a financial contribution: - The contribution of historically disadvantaged people under special circumstances may be lowered, in which case the IDC will be prepared to extend finance in excess of the owner’s contribution.

• The project/business must exhibit economic merit in terms of profitability and sustainability.

• The IDC does not re-finance fixed assets since our aim is to expand the industrial base. EXPANSIONS BY EXISTING BUSINESSES • Latest audited and actual financials (signed by the finance director, MD or CEO). • Your updated business plan focusing on the proposed project/expansion.

• A detailed description of the nature of expansion, its related costs and revenues.

• A comprehensive business plan. SMALL, MEDIUM AND START-UP BUSINESSES