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<strong>The</strong> Cantacuzene Period (1952–1965)<br />
Digesters 9-17 were ordered from Avesta, but from 1980 onwards all<br />
digesters were from ND Engineering (although the plate came from<br />
Avesta, except for the new Nos 3 and 5 that came from Southern<br />
Cross)�<br />
Franco Scarpa came to South Africa in 1961 for the adventure,<br />
although he had two brothers working at <strong>Saiccor</strong>� He joined Durban<br />
Engineering but was persuaded by his brother Renzo to join <strong>Saiccor</strong><br />
in 1963� He worked in the workshop, then the liquor plant, but left<br />
in 1965� He worked on his own as a plumber for a few years, then<br />
joined Breckenridge, and from there went to Milano Motors before<br />
joining Coilco Engineering in 1974� In 1978 he joined ND Engineering<br />
and is still there� He was at the construction ‘coal face’ of every digester<br />
from No 18, including the rebuild of No’s 1-8� <strong>The</strong>re probably is not<br />
anyone in the world who knows more about building stainless steel<br />
digesters than Franco�<br />
Willem Deyzel of Lloyds Register was also an integral part of the<br />
digester building team�<br />
Another plant that was extremely troublesome from 1956 onwards<br />
was the Lurgi pyrites ‘roaster’ and the precipitator that followed it�<br />
Bruno Trevisan, the electrical engineer, was horrified in 1975 when<br />
he heard the gas producer had electrostatic precipitators, because he<br />
experienced so much trouble with the one following the pyrites<br />
roaster� Early in 1958 it was decided to buy a sulphur burner, No 1<br />
Liquor preparation, showing No 1 Simon Carves burner, 1959<br />
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