GobakanYa, currently a division of Makona Hardware and Industrial (Pty) Ltd which in turn is part of the Man-Dirk (Pty) Ltd group of companies, came into being early in February 2003. The division was based on one initial bioremediation product BioMatrixPlus, developed by the current environmental division manager Chris Cooper. After an initial short period of product development and testing in the field, small scale production of the BioMatrixPlus product (now more familiarly known as GK BioPack Bioremediation Media) began in March 2004 with the first bag of product coming off the production line on the 17th March 2004.
Today GobakanYa (GK) holds a number
of patents and manufactures over 25 environmental protection and rehabilitation
products. From an initial single employee, the division now has 8 full
time employees and 24 part time representatives based in the Man-Dirk
(Pty) Ltd group of companies. The current product range includes amongst
others a range of organic absorbents, bioremediation products, environmental
cleaning solutions and pollution control equipment. As an added value
benefit to our customers and distributors the division also offers the
service provisions to match the product range including managing large
and small scale bioremediation projects and contaminated site cleanup.
Our largest bioremediation project to date involved the bioremediation
of 10,000m3 of hydrocarbon contaminated solids for a mining conglomerate
in Southern Africa.
Shown above is the first bag of GK BioPack ever produced (now almost a household name in the field of bioremediation in South Africa) and the current production staff at our premises in Randfontein, South Africa.