Custom Research Services

With our experience in many industries, VWG can provide clients with a custom research service to look into industry-specific issues in the industrial sustainability field.
Cleaner Production

“the continuous application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes, products and services in order to increase their overall efficiency and to reduce risks to human life and the environment” - UNIDO
Capacity Building Solutions

Our training solutions are outcomes-based and where the appropriate standards exist, based on unit standards. We travel to clients all over South Africa to deliver training at very reasonable prices.
Operational Excellence Services

"Operations" is where execution takes place. Our focus is on minimising costs, maximising reliability and product quality, preventing injuries and reducing pollution.

Welcome to VWG Consulting

VWG Consulting works with industrial organisations of all sizes to save energy, materials and water, identify and mitigate operational risks and increase productivity. Since 2005 our engineers and operations management professionals have worked on over 50 individual industrial sites in 6 provinces across South Africa, developing sustainability strategies, conducting site assessments, designing viable solutions and facilitating implementation. We are passionate about South Africa's industrial competitiveness and sustainability. If you interested in cutting costs while simultaneously increasing your levels of environmental and operational performance and compliance, contact us to discuss the various ways we could become a valuable partner to your enterprise.

Our key services include:

Strategy projects involving industry and sustainability
Site-based energy, water and material usage efficiency assessments
Industrial risk assessments
Implementation projects to mitigate risks and realise identified opportunities
Training, coaching and workshops to build internal capacity at both shop floor and management level
Assistance with project funding e.g. access to incentives such as the Manufacturing Competitiveness Enhancement Programme
Structured, customised programmes incorporating all of the above for transitioning industrial sites towards sustainability
Greening of supply chains (score points for Enterprise Development by assisting the manufacturers in your supply chain to become more sustainable)