About the Company

The boys in the barrow

Trident South Africa has a long standing history and was founded in 1969 under the na,e Trident Engineering by Roger Calvert, John Curnick and Richard Curnick. Colin Williams joined in 1984 to head up the spare parts division and in 1995 Mike Calvert and Tommy Webster joined to start Tridents International sales division. Rob Steel followed in 1997 as technical director. These shareholders have worked side by side and have developed Trident into a well established engineering concern which services many prestigious companies both locally and abroad.

Trident has also over the years looked to broaden its product base by acquisition and joint venture. During the latter part of 1997. Trident formed a joint venture with Bateman Industrial Holdings and a license agreement was concluded with the Goodman Equipment Company of Chicago Usa to manufacture and supply the entire Goodman range of locomotives in Africa. In April 2000 this technology was purchased by Trident and Trident owned the Goodman Technology for the entire continen of Africa. The world rights for the entire range of Eimco Rocker Shovel loaders were also acquired by Trident in 1997. To purchased the joint venture interests held by Bateman Industrial Holdings and the name Trident Engineering was changed to Trident S.A. May 2003 saw a new dawn for Trident  when The Goodman Equipment Company of Chicago ceased operations.

Trident as ever conscious of the need to support a considerate delieveref basr of equipment devided to aquire the global manufacturing  and distribution rights for all new Goodman equipment. It did not take Trident long before an entirely new and very much improved Goodman loco became available. The Millenium Locomotive.

In november 2010 Trident S.A. became part of the M.O.G.S which is is a subsidiary of Royal Bafokeng Holdings. In soing so Trident S.A. now becomes a BBBEE Company.

Trident to ensure that the vast number of Locomotives being used in the western hemisphere continued to be supported and that any new requirements were swiftly met teamed up with Williams Distribution a veteran mining supply company based in Akron, Ohio USA.

Trident employs a network of carefuly screened Sales Agents globally who have acces to all aspects of the Trident product. Agents are now active in Bolivia Colombia Peru, Mexico, Phillipines, Indonesia, Sambia and Zimbabwe. Applications to represent Trident in any country not mentioned will be recieved with pleasure.

Trident has since its inseption in 1969 played a major role in industry at large. Today, together with its new shareholders and dedicated team of directors and staff. Trident S.A. is poised to continue its contribution towards the economy of our country.