Alcon Marepha is a South African based company manufacturing of high quality overhead aluminum power conductors Aluminum Conductor Steel Re inforced ACSR used in Distribution and Transmission sectors of power utilities The Company was formed in 2001 by Edwin Dwinki Phala to establish black owned and black managed cable and conductor manufacturing company The company is based in Birch Acres next to Tembisa Township where most of the production workforce resides Alcon is black owned with a staff complement of 90 people of which are black Alcon has a strong focus on employment equity skill development and enterprise development Alcon has since grown from manufacturing small distribution aluminum conductors to all types of aluminum conductors used for all voltages up to 765Kv Alcon has through the years built a specialized manufacturing capacity manned by skilled workforce to produce high quality overhead conductors All our products were type tested by an independent accreditation company CSIR The company is eq