The Company
LabWorld is the centre of scientific technology for AFGRI Operations Ltd. AFGRI is a listed company and is one of the biggest companies of its kind in Southern Africa.

LabWorld has nearly 30 years extensive experience in the sales, service and support of analytical equipment.

To provide a visible witness for Jesus Christ in all that we do. 

The People
Specialist expertise within the LabWorld team, as well as a network of available external experts when necessary offers the customers a total solution service. This pool of expertise allows the best use of cutting edge technologies and innovation under a wide range of circumstances.

Sales
Factory trained application specialists supply complete application support and method development support for all analyses and laboratories.

Laboratory

Analytical methods used that is Internationally recognized as well as NIR analyses.

Service and Support
Our factory trained team of dedicated service engineers offer rapid and cost effective preventative maintenance and technical support in all our areas of operation which includes South Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar and Seychelles.

Training        
LabWorld offers regular local and international training programs to customers in specific analytical techniques and applications.

Financing
Turnkey supply and support includes various in-house financing options that may be designed to suit customers’ specific requirements.

Stock
To ensure minimal downtime of our customers’ systems, we have backup and loan instruments as well as a comprehensive stock of consumables and spares.

BEE
Agri Sizwe Trust, a broad based BEE Consortium, has a 26,77 % interest in AFGRI Operations. Members of the trust hold executive positions on the board of directors of AFGRI Operations.

C. Gerhardt Analytical Systems sell a range of laboratory equipment for the following; Kjeldahl Nitrogen and protein, traditional and rapid digestion and distillation, metal and trace metal digestions, traditional and rapid soxlhet solvent extraction for fat in foods or environmental sample extracts, general heating equipment including heating mantles and hotplates, and shaking.

Recently C. Gerhardt Analytical Systems has extended its range of products with lines of equipment complementary to the existing Gerhardt laboratory equipment. This includes electronic and automatic titration equipment and also some specialised low temperature digestion equipment, digiPREP.

P S Analytical are leaders in the supply of instrumentation for the determination of Mercury (Hg), Arsenic (As), Selenium (Se), Tellurium (Te), Antimony (Sb) and Bismuth (Bi).

Systems generally utilize Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a means of detection, however systems for Mercury based on Atomic Absorbtion Spectroscopy are available where regulations demand it.

Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy offers many advantages over other techniques (such as Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy) for the determination of mercury and the hydride forming elements including better sensitivity, selectivity and linearity.

The PSA systems are utilised for many diverse applications, from environmental to petrochemical and cover all sample types from gases to liquids and solids. Used for the measurement of totals and for speciation, the PSA systems offer unrivalled performance and reliability within the marketplace.

The company was founded in 1962 by Mr. Harald Perten. We are experts in quality control of Grain, Flour, Feed and Food, and offer a wide range of analytical equipment for these industries.

Perten Instruments invented the Falling Number method and the Glutomatic method, and continues to invest heavily in R&D. We have worked with NIR since the beginning of the 1980s and offer the most advanced, modern NIR instruments today. The acquisition of Newport Scientific in 2007 expanded our product range to cover instruments for rheological testing and dough characterization.

Our presence is worldwide through Perten offices and distributors, and in total we are active in 100 countries. The Perten Instruments Group headquarters are located in Stockholm, Sweden, and we have local offices in the USA, China, Germany and Australia.

We are very active in industry associations such as ICC and AACC.

CHOPIN TECHNOLOGIES, a Tripette & Renaud subsidiary, was created by the grouping of three entities historically focused on qualitative tests on cereals and their derivatives :

• The "laboratory device" branch of Tripette & Renaud (itself founded in 1836 to work on grain) specialized in producing cereal testing devices since 1970,
• Chopin SA founded in 1950 by Mr Marcel Chopin, inventor of the Alveograph, whose production would be exclusively linked to flour testing.
• Serdia SARL, created in the 1960s, manufacturer of silothermometry devices designed to manage temperatures in stored cereals and sampling probes.

Skalar is a Dutch company, established in 1965 as a producer of analyzers for the laboratory and process industry. It has since grown into a multinational organization with its own subsidiaries in most European countries and North America, and with over eighty representatives throughout the world.

• To develop, manufacture and market analytical instrumentation and support products for use in laboratory analyses of agricultural and food products.

• To compete in those markets that can benefit from ANKOM Technology's product offerings.

• To provide technological solutions to enhance the determination of nutritional components in agricultural and dietary products.

• To expand its portfolio in areas related to our core competencies.

• To use our position to help those in need.

• To provide a visible witness for Jesus Christ in all that we do.