MOLENAAR HG & CO (PTY) LTD
Engineering in Paarl

HG Molenaar large-scale machinery for food and beverage manufacturers. Since then, the company has been going from strength-to-strength, continually innovating and pioneering new solutions that answer ever-changing market demands. It is this experience, coupled with exceptional customer service delivery that has seen the company expand far beyond local borders. The early years In 1935 the company’s founder, Hugo Molenaar, came to South Africa as a young technical engineer from the Netherlands. Shortly after his arrival, he secured a job with leading Western Cape nurserymen, Pickstone Farms. Once there he worked for numerous canning companies including the Green Giant Company and Del Monte. This meant that when he returned to South Africa in 1963, he joined H.G. Molenaar as both the sales and service manager in addition to starting the agency for Atlas Pacific pear peeling machines. This was to be the beginning of a long association with various leading U.S. companies. Sanctions are imposed The 1970s saw politics starting to impinge on the business. Economic sanctions were imposed on U.S. companies that were doing business in South Africa. Molenaar’s flagship products is the Molenaar Continuous Rotary Sterilizer for canned goods. The first machine was designed and manufactured for a local client in In quick succession several other projects of this nature were commissioned, culminating in the first sterilizer export project to the United Kingdom in Going east The new millennium saw the company entering both the North American and the Asian markets. Molenaar’s first Asian contract, new equipment was installed for Siam Foods in Thailand, which comprised an exhaust box, Continuous Rotary Sterilizer, Palletizers and Conveyors. Molenaar to construct a green fields corn-processing factory. Molenaar has gained invaluable experience in the food and beverage industries. Driven by principles of innovation and a commitment to service excellence, we continue to be passionate about the industries we serve. Ongoing technological advancements aside, we never lose sight of the most important aspect of our business: you. While further a field, we believe that a large part of our growing recognition and success in the international arena can be attributed to our customer service philosophy based on excellence. Given our network of offices worldwide, we are able to supply markets in South Africa, Europe, Australasia, South America, Thailand and the United States. In addition to our materials handling expertise, H.G. Molenaar has the necessary in-house skills to position us as leaders in the field of Liquid Processing in hygienic food applications. Molenaar has been supplying de-palletizers to both the local and international food and beverage industries since With more than 60 years’ experience in the design and manufacture of canning lines, H.G. Molenaar has recently entered the exciting, and rapidly growing, field of food preservation in barrier-plastic containers. H.G.Molenaar is the supplier, agent and manufacturer of large-scale machinery for food and beverage manufacturers across the globe. We also operate our own Thermal Process Laboratory, We are able to simulate virtually any thermal process for both low-acid and high-acid food processing.