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During these visits, Dutton has donated products such as cisterns; front, top and dual flush and inlet-valves. Technical support was provided with a view as to how to save water. FET colleges/technical schools on the other hand suggested that such a partnership should consider also the placement of learners for their practicals, as this would assist plumbing learners in completing their portfolio of evidence. A fair value of these partnerships is emphasised, where success will be measured through leaners being placed in the plumbing industry, and recommend Dutton’s product upon qualifying.

Open day, PCD College Pretoria.

A successful open day was held on 24 April for 15 (almost qualified) plumbers from Pretoria visiting DPE premises. Dutton as a company is going to endeavour to promote these open days to give DPE more exposure to the real end users, the real customers.

George Mdlalose, Human Resources Manager for Dutton Plastics Engineering, says that, “everything is on track for the support of the Public FET colleges and technical schools, and that it would be appreciated that other plumbing stakeholders participate in these partnerships to assist our industry to make it more attractive to our youth, and thus contributing to the skilling of the unemployed, and in return benefits companies”.

We wish them lucky, as they begin with their competitive games, under the team leadership (Team Manager, Michael Mabe, and Team Coach, Johannes Bulekiwe.) We adopt a winning attitude!

Total Savings 2012

1 Million Rand to date

Dutton donated plumbing products such as cisterns, front-, top-, and dual flush, inlet valves , cisterns and packs to train these 31 special learners at Randeor, following Dutton’ commitment to partner with all schools and FET colleges that offer plumbing as a subject. Below our HR manager handing over the some of the donations to Mr Dirk Steyn, teacher dealing with the plumbing section 

Portfolio of evidence of learners plumbing training using DPE products at Randeor

Cotlands, Turffontein, a non profit organisation caring for children between 0 – 12 years, approached Dutton for a donation

HR Manager handing over the DPE banner over to learners at Elandspark School in Bedfordview, explaining the different products and it usage to the plumbing learners

Dutton donated plumbing products such as cisterns, front-, top-, and dual flush, inlet valves , cisterns and packs to train these special learners at Elandspark, following Dutton’ commitment to partner with all schools that offer plumbing as a subject. Above our HR manager seen with some of the learners

Belvedere School, Benoni

• Below donation made end of 2012 to this special school.
• 5 Cisterns mounted and being used for training purposes.
• This school has requested clear cisterns to enhance training outcomes

Plumbing Training College, Mayville, PretoriaTraining institute for PlumbersHR Manager shaking hands with Jako head of plumbing at the college 

Some of DPE products donated to training college in Pretoria, currently training 22 students

Marketing Donations 2012/2013Initiative summary In conclusion:

• All the recipients were very grateful and thankful for DPE donations and they are all making full use of this to train future plumbers
• This has created and interest in learners to familiarise themselves with DPE products
• 55 Brochures were mailed in February 2013 to all FET colleges country wide with the intention of partnering with them going forward

We are very proud of our achievement of 1 Million man-hours without a lost time injury.( Achieved in 2012)

Our next goal will be to Focus on achieving the 2 million injury free target. (2013)

We successfully launched our Kaizen programme in 2012 with 10 projects being completed. Well done to all those involved in this Lean programme.

I am very pleased to see that our staff have embraced this programme with pride and passion. Thank you.

We will continue with our Kaizen projects in 2013 as this “Continuous Improvement” initiative will drive us towards becoming “A Low Cost Producer”

We are faced with ongoing threats to our business from local and international competitors. To this end we must continue to drive down our input costs.

I would like to thank TEAM DUTTON for our achievements in 2012 and may we continue on the road to success in 2013.

Equipment at DPE includes machines for injection moulding, blow moulding and compression moulding. Machines ranging from 20 tons to 800 tons and have placed the company in the ranks of the larger reputed plastic converters of its type.

DPE produces a wide range of products for the plumbing and packaging sectors.

An active SHERQ Department is responsible for the development of the quality, health, safety, risk and environmental systems which are controlled under the auspices of the Central Management System. They have tri-certification on ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.

We met with Juan Muller (MD), Joseph Maswinyaneng (Factory Mgr.) and Masopha Moshoeshoe (SHERQ Mgr.)

A comprehensive implementation of lean strategy of a business management system utilizing the 'tools' of lean such as 5S, Kaizen, Kanban and workplace management has transformed DPE into a highly competitive player in the plastics forming and extrusion sector.

We wanted to know how the relevance of going 'lean' had enhanced the overall SHERQ process in terms of the eight quality principles implicit in a business quality management system.

We asked - "How has lean contributed to Customer Focus?"

Juan explained while the company had an IT system which through MRP provided procurement, purchasing and planning in the conventional manner, the key driver to order management was the introduction of a kanban system which has minimum and maximum stock levels and as we supply our customers from finished goods stock the kanban system as enabled us to reduce by over 50% our finished goods warehouse stock yet enable us to satisfy demand.

Additionally by using lean manufacturing we have reduced batch sizes and increased throughput rate without compromising sales demand and customer needs.

Juan explained that DPE had some lines working as 'Known Value Items' made - to - stock, other lines worked on a make - to - order basis and this give sufficient flexibility to manage demand.

A challenging journey for Dutton Plastics Engineering, On April 5, 2012, Dutton Plastics Engineering accomplished the safety goal of working one million hours without a lost time accident. 1,000,000 is the equivalent of 80 individuals working safely for 7 years. "Safety is our top priority and this is a significant achievement for our people and the company"

"The achievement of this Safety milestone is credited to all involved. The stringent controls in Dutton Plastics Engineering working environment and a high expectation for Safety on the site has called for the continuous emphasis and relentless drive by the staff, supervision and workers combined to ensure the safety of all DPE employees on the site, as well as the end user personnel,"

"We are very pleased to announce this achievement and very proud of the dedication shown by all DPE management, staff and workforce on the site in reaching such a commendable Milestone in Safe Work Practices.

"I am sure that everyone on site will continue with their commitment to safety and we look forward to announcing another 1 million hours completion milestone without any LTI", Juan Muller, Divisional Managing Director said.