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A Set of Complementary Skills at the Service of Industrial Equipment
Editorial Advertisement - L'Union, September 2, 2001

SOGI, the Gabonese Industrial Company, was created in 1975 and is part of the SOGAFRIC Group, just like SODIM TP, SOGAFRIC Froid, Electra, Toyota Gabon, and GESPARC.

A Set of Diverse and Complementary Activities
SOGI concentrates its activities exclusively in the industrial field and have been, from the start, characterized by their diversity:

general boiler making;
equipment and body work for heavy vehicles;
metal structures and metalwork;
fine plate making;
argon welding;
ship building;
general mechanic

The general boiler making is the process of transforming metal sheets for the industrial making of metal riveted, stamped, or welded parts such as tanks, water towers, vats, silos, and any steel mechanically welded parts.

In its bodywork production workshop, SOGI mass produces the following equipment:

trailer trucks and dumper trucks;
tanker trucks and trailers;
vehicle and container carriers;
log trucks; and
any other bodywork necessary for the transportation of people or goods.

An important part of the heavy vehicles that circulate in Gabon has been equiped by SOGI.

SOGI's Metal Structure Department designs and builds industrial buildings suited to local conditions that meet all the quality requirements demanded by this kind of works.

The Fine Plate Making Workshop produces most of the metal casing for the air piping and intake for central air conditioning systems. It also makes the pipeworks for vacuuming the dust and shaving for the local factories.

SOGI Naval, the ship building department, offers the services of new unit building, mechanical and painting jobs on river transportation vehicles (barges, LCT, ...).

The General and Precision Mechanic Workshop produces all kinds of machined, drilled, or turned parts.

A Qualified and Effective Staff
The competence and performance of SOGI's 100 permanent agents is the result of a hiring and training policy that was put in place by the company from the start.
Training is a fundamental part of the SOGAFRIC Group human resource development policy. It reflects the will for individual and collective progress to master technological innovations and thus enhance further the Group's expertise and reliability.

SOGI, like the other companies of the SOGAFRIC Group, uses , the "Boutonnet-Brenac Training Center." Created in 1998 to meet the Group's professional excellence ambition requirements, the Center offers 4 training spaces: An interactive training room, a classroom, a computer training room, and a technical training room.

In 2010, 10,000 internal training hours were given in the Center, 50% of which had to do with technical concerns. SOGI's agents were thus able to take various courses on computer-assisted drawing software, 200 hours on various welding techniques, and 60 hours of tracing applied to boiler making.

All this training activities demonstrate SOGI's and the SOGAFRIC Group's commitment to durably invest in the Gabonese economy and their trust in the country's future.

Quality Products and Services
Right from the start, SOGI committed to selecting its partners among world-renowned suppliers:

MARREL, for dump truck and crane hydraulic equipment, "ampliroll" equipment, and multi-dumper trucks;
BPW, for rolling mechanisms, axles, and suspensions;

The company is equipped with a CAO ( Autocad - Inventor ) system, a digital plasma torch cutting table , 2 high capacity guillotine shears, bending machines, and hoisting means that enable the production of one-piece blocs of up-to 10 metric tons.

Renovated, Modular, and Expendable Facilities
SOGI's facilities in the Oloumi Industrial Zone have been completely redone and cover an area of 12,000 square meters, 5,000 of which are covered. Totally renovated, they include the design office with its computer-assisted drawing software, the production and maintenance workshops, and the administrative offices. A space is reserved for servicing and selling Bosch spare parts. A specific workshop has also been set up for the aluminum carpentry activity.

The ship building workshop is on a different site, at the mouth of the Lowé River, on the Owendo Road. It is equipped with a sleepway. In order to receive vessel of up-to 600 tons, 2,20 meter draft, and 13,50 meter wide, these facilities greatly extend SOGI's intervention capacities in Gabon.

Products that Reflect Customers' Desires
Thanks to a great production flexibility and a close cooperation with the users, SOGI's technicians make it a point of honor to produce to Custom-made equipment and facilities especially suited to the local context.

Thanks to its facilities, its production tools and its qualified staff, SOGI is able to provide a national and professional solution to all the expectations for industrial equipment in Gabon and in the region.

SOGI is a company of the SOGAFRIC Group