Designer and manufacturer of prefabricated data centre buildings and intelligent power management systems ,Flexenclosure has landed in Africa setting up its first office in Johannesburg, South Afruca.
In a statement, the company gives the need to serve its growing number of customers in Africa as the reason for the new development.
Headed by Carita Tissari da Costa, Flexenclosure’s Sales Director for Africa, the new office, which is located in the Business Center in Fourways just north of Johannesburg, was opened on 1st September
“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 $55-60M for 2014,” read the statement.
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.
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 per cent, and eCentre, custom-designed, prefabricated data centre buildings that are fast to deploy, energy efficient and easy to expand.