About Us

Who we are

The ABC Hansen Africa is a South African company with local second generation family-owned shareholding and associated in shareholding with ABC Hansen A/S of Denmark. Other companies in the Danish group includes Engsko A/S incorporating United Milling Systems, Maskinfabrikken Cormall A/S, Thyregod A/S, Engsko Kristone India (Pvt) Ltd, Eegholm A/S, Engsko Ethiopia (Pvt) Ltd, Semas (France) ,  Danam (Ukraine) as well as dairy, piggery and grain interests in Eastern Europe.

The company is associated in South Africa with Scanwood Solutions, Hippo Mills, Yokulima (Pty) Ltd, Trailsaddles.co.za, Funky FMCG (Pty) Ltd, ABC Hansen Namibia (Pty) Ltd, ABC Hansen Zambia (Pty) Ltd as well as property and farming interests.

The group has representatives and / or own offices in Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, India and several Middle East countries. It operates in group-owned facilities of around 5,000 square meters in Pretoria with warehousing in the Free State.

ABC Hansen Africa offer solutions to the grain value chain and manufactures, distributes, imports and exports agricultural processing and food processing equipment and engineers complete turnkey plants for a variety of industries with a primary focus on grain storage, cleaning, drying, milling, extruding, grading, roasting, food processing and oil seed processing industries.

The company has first hand experience of operating businesses in South Africa of most of the equipment it manufactures and sells. Its depth of knowledge therefore is not limited to the manufacture of machines only, and it has successfully operated maize mills, sorghum mills, wheat mills, oil expelling plants, bakeries, bakery ingredient blending plants, spice mills, dry food milling, extrusion, oil seed processing and blending operations. The company has an engineering division manufacturing many different types of equipment and able to extend full maintenance, warranty and repair services to its customers and on behalf of foreign principals where required.

The company has been at the forefront of developing small and medium scale wheat milling systems in the early 1990’s incorporating both roller and stone mills which has become extremely popular in many parts of the world. Today a full range of specialised milling equipment is manufactured and exported including Hippo Hammer Mills – a South African icon since 1928.

The main focus of the company today is on large scale grain storage systems from 2 tons to 20,000 tons per bin and all associated handling, conveying, drying and cleaning systems in all capacities and for all types of grain including maize, wheat, soybeans, sunflower, rice, rape seed, nuts, sorghum, millet etc.

The company continuously invests in research and development in expanding the range of equipment it manufactures and also represents many foreign world-class engineering manufacturers

The ABC Africa Group of companies focusses on excellence with machinery and equipment you can rely on.