History, experience and technology
With an engineering history dating to 1824 and experience gained through cooperation agreements with international organisations such as Combustion Engineering, Rolls-Royce, Alstom and others, John Thompson has built up a technology base that makes us leaders in this industry.
John Thompson designs, manufactures, constructs, maintains and retrofits industrial watertube and firetube boilers with steam outputs of up to 320 t/h for process steam and power generation applications.
A proud and distinguished history
William Thompson establishes an iron boat building business in Bilston, UK.
Works move to Wolverhampton to concentrate on production of steam boilers.
An agent is appointed in South Africa.
John Thompson – Albert de Jong (Pty) Ltd manufactures its first boiler in South Africa.
John Thompson Africa (Pty) Ltd is established under control of the UK parent company.
John Thompson UK acquires Cochran to become Europe’s leading manufacturer of shell boilers.
Clarke Chapman Ltd and Reyrolle Parsons Ltd form Northern Engineering Industries Ltd (NEI).
NEI merges with Rolls-Royce, creating Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group, which includes International Combustion Ltd, Cochran and John Thompson Africa.
Alstom Power purchases the assets of NEI Africa, including John Thompson Africa and ICAL, and creates the business division – John Thompson Boilers.
Alstom South Africa acquires 90% of its shares from Alstom P and became a South African owned company with 50% BEE ownership.
Alstom Electrical Industries (Pty) Ltd is rebranded to become ACTOM (Pty) Ltd, of which John Thompson is a division.
John Thompson celebrates 75 years in South Africa.
John Thompson’s manufacturing facility in Bellville celebrates its 60th year.
Our values
Customer Driven Excellence
The customer is the ultimate judge of my performance.
Dignity
Our respectful behavior upholds and affirms the human dignity we are entitled to.
Integrity
We do the right thing even when no one is watching.
Accountability
We own our actions and consequences.
Innovation
We have passion for sustainable solutions.
Leadership
Our values-based leadership inspires us to transform and excel.
John Thompson Management Structure
Jaco Grobbelaar
Chief Executive Officer021 959 8400
Industrial Division
