Novatek
Water in Johannesburg

Our objectives are to make mining safer, pumps, more profitable and make new technology implementation easy for our clients.
Novatek are agents for Water Hydraulics UK range of high pressure water hydraulic valves, motors and equipment.

Novatek provides hydropowered technology solutions to make underground mining safer, more effective and profitable. We engineer, manufacture and supply innovative rockdrilling and mining machinery and complete hydropowered mining systems and have over 30 years of experience in the field. Novatek is a wholly-owned South African company and has been a market leader in the design and development of water-powered rockdrills and drilling equipment within the South African hydropowered mining industry since Our experience encompasses mainly hardrock mining in Southern Africa and the Americas in many different orebodies and mining layouts. We also have experience in coal and softrock mining, quarrying, underwater drilling and civil applications. We are able to employ a combination of oil hydraulic, water hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical technologies to suit customer requirements. Novatek work with various other specialist suppliers to provide a range of high pressure water hydraulic valves, pumps, motors and equipment. By providing project feasibility and design support, implementation, commissioning and training. We provide individual products to established hydropower users. We believe in ongoing improvement to refine our products and services to meet our customers changing needs. The head office in Robertsham, Johannesburg houses our modern manufacturing and assembly facility as well as our engineering development division. We operate numerous maintenance contracts in on-site workshops. Deliver innovative and appropriate technologies for safe, productive, energy-efficient and cost-effective mining. Develop and empower our employees to the benefit of all our stakeholders. Ensuring that our customers obtain benefit as much as possible from our products is important to us. Novatek provides innovative hydropowered technology solutions to make underground mining safer, more effective and profitable. We have over 30 years of experience in the engineering and operation of water hydraulic equipment in the mining industry. It was developed for deep gold mines to use the mine cooling water to also power machinery, thus saving energy. It has since expanded to shallower mines and applications using localised pumps to provide the necessary pressure. The working environment is also improved by eliminating oil lubricators, exhaust misting and reducing noise. The economics also make sense; capital costs are lower than compressed air systems and much lower than highly mechanised systems. Electrical power costs have increased 300 % in the last few years and labour costs have increased but productivity has stagnated.