Chris and Judith du Plessis founded SA Gauge with a modest vision, but one that was vivid and focused enough to lay the groundwork for a proudly South African company that has stood the test of time.
Celebrating its 30th year of business in 2022, the company’s welcome return to the first post-COVID-19 Electra Mining Africa was somewhat bittersweet, as it marked its first showing at the event without its spearhead in attendance.
Chris du Plessis passed away on 12 January 2021 at the age of 61, but his legacy is an SA Gauge that is barely recognisable from the original, back when he and his wife used to stay up at night making gauge scale plates by hand. Armed only with the idea of manufacturing pressure gauges and thermometers locally, a can-do attitude and six staff members, the Du Plessis couple steadily grew the business to encompass two self-owned branches and two SANAS-approved laboratories, one for pressure and the other for temperature.
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