Kaymac Structural Foam (Pty) Ltd was acknowledged as one of the MERSETA’s top skills development companies on 10 October 2008, when a Memorandum of Agreement was signed with the company, in which the MERSETA pledged 1.4 million Rand over the next 4 years to fund the skills development programmes of the company. This was seen by the company as a cumulative reward for their proactive, innovative and continuous support of the development of its employees through skills development within the parameters of legislative compliance and good governance principles from the inception of the SETA-system through the Skills development Act and the Skills Development Levy Act.
The road to this accolade has been well-documented in the company’s history over the past 9 years: - 2000 - 2001: establishment of elected skills development committee, representative of all stakeholders, including shop stewards. Minuted 6-weekly meetings have been held for the past 8 years.
- From 2001 each employee has been enrolled with the Plastics Federation (former PITB) in one of the Skills Level 1-4. Even though these were not registered Skills Programmes, the MERSETA issued each of the candidates with certificates, as a form of acknowledgement of the Skills Level achieved.
- In preparation for the continuation of these skills programmes, the company participated in the MERSETA assessor progamme and has currently 12 registered assessors and 2 moderators.
- The company has also been involved with Media Works for the past 4 years in the ABET programme and have had 5 of the 8 ABET learners move through the levels into the Level 2 Skills Programme.
- The company is a leader in HIV/AIDS awareness programmes, peer counseling, testing, prevention by knowing one’s status and ARV delivery and support, both in the Pietermaritzburg business community and in the Durban Automotive Cluster.
Each year the company has not spent less than 3% of its payroll on developing the skills of its employees. The benefits have been significant: development of expertise within the workplace, career pathing, which has impacted positively on transformation and low staff turnover, which has ensured stability and a productive workforce. SIGNING THE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN KAYMAC STRUCTURAL FOAM AND THE MERSETA  FROM LEFT: MARK ANDERSON (MERSETA CLIENT LIAISON OFFICER); MR ZAMO XABA (HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR) AND MR GRAHAM RANDALL (MANAGING DIRECTOR) HANDING OVER THE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN KAYMAC STRUCTURAL FOAM AND THE MERSETA 
FROM LEFT: MARK ANDERSON (MERSETS LIAISON MANAGER); MR ZAMO XABA (HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR) AND MR GRAHAM RANDALL (MANAGING DIRECTOR)
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| Kaymac Structural Foam (Pty) Ltd has advanced into the complete systems and packaging solutions provider through their ability to specialize in rigid plastic components manufactured through rotational moulding and low-pressure injection moulding processes. Kaymac's plastic performa pallet, collapsible bin and chemtainer have developed their market position in the complete systems and packaging supplier.
Kaymac's products have been successful in supplying and servicing both the Automotive market (both original equipment and first-tier manufacturing) and the Industrial market. Kaymac have become market leaders through its aggressive goal-driven desire to be recognised by the consumer market as the preferred choice in complete systems and packaging specifier. Kaymac's successful growth is due to their belief in the benefits of using returnable/ reusable plastic packaging over single-trip packaging and communicating those benefits to their focus markets.
To reinforce their determination to grow the returnable/ reusable plastic packaging market, Kaymac has continued to invest in complementary moulds to enhance both the collapsible bin and the performa pallets since manufacture began in 2002. |
