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Quant Production Hub
Phase 1: Briardene

Equipment schedule, electrical load, services and space for the Phase 1 fleet at 69 Chris Hani Road — specified from manufacturer site preparation documents rather than marketing datasheets.

Site69 Chris Hani Rd
Briardene, Durban

Supply basis400/230 V · 3-ph
4-wire + E · 50 Hz

Connected load237 kVA

Maximum demand106 kVA

Notified max demand125 kVA · 180 A

Machine mass17.6 tonnes

The short version

The air costs more than the presses.

Forty-one per cent of Quant's peak electrical demand at Briardene is the presses, cutters and finishing kit doing actual work. Another forty-two per cent is air — compressed air and air conditioning. The rest is lights and sockets.

That ratio is a Durban fact, not a design flaw. Six of these machines carry a published environmental limit, and the intersection of all of them leaves a box three degrees wide and ten points deep. Holding that box against a coastal summer is what the plant is for.

The electrical answer is a 125 kVA notified maximum demand, roughly 180 A three-phase. An existing light-industrial unit in Briardene will typically be sitting on 80 to 150 A, so a supply application to eThekwini should be opened before anything is ordered. It is the longest lead time on the project and nothing else here can start without it.

Two numbers will decide whether the building works at all: 3180 mm of clear height over the Summa F3232, and a 2300 × 2150 mm door opening for the Durst crate.

Every figure on this page recalculates in the accompanying workbook. Change a demand factor or the floor area and the numbers move with it.

The equipment schedule

Phases, voltage, current, power, quantity, protective device and dimensions, machine by machine. Currents shown as design are what the cable and breaker must carry; running is what the machine actually draws and is what feeds the demand calculation. Where a manufacturer publishes only one of the two, the derivation is noted.

Print

Table 1 · Printers
Machine	Qty	Phases	Volts	Current running	Current design	Power	Device	L × W × H (mm)	Mass
Durst P5 X Hybrid6 inks + orange, violet, white, varnish	1	3 + N + PE	400	15.8 A	24.5 A	17.0 kVA	25 A / C	6540 × 3490 × 16593536 deep with roll option	3000 kg+600 roll tool
Mimaki TS330-3200DS3.2 m hybrid — direct to fabric and transfer	1	1 + N + PE	230	10 A	10 A	2.4 kW	20 A / C	5410 × 1075 × 1440install space 6500 × 3100	968 kg
Fujifilm Acuity Triton1.6 m roll, AQUAFUZE water-based UV	1	1 + N + PE	230	6.1 A	11.7 A	1.4 kW2.7 kW peak	16 A / C	2770 × 895 × 1611	186 kg
HP PageWide XL Pro 820040-in MFP + Pro Stacker	1	1 + N + PE	230	8 A	8 A	1.2 kW0.37 kW typical	16 A / C	1955 × 785 × 1637stacker 1430 × 1280	527 kg+233 stacker loaded
HP Indigo 7900press + feeder + stacker + cabinets	1	3 + N + PE	400	22.5 A	50 A	14 kWaverage in print	50 A / C5 kA AIC	3660 × 1247 × 2104	3425 kg
Indigo external chillerUltrafilter UC-240 class	1	3 + PE	400	21 A	27 A	8.7 kW	32 A / C	1140 × 950 × 1755	370 kg
Print subtotal	6					76.6 kVA			8476 kg

The PageWide Pro Stacker is powered from the printer at 32 V DC and needs no circuit of its own. The optional Pro Sheet Feeder on the Midcomp quotation adds 0.5 A on a shared 16 A outlet.

Cutting

Table 2 · Cutters
Machine	Qty	Phases	Volts	Current	Power	Device	Connector	Footprint (mm)	Ceiling
Summa F3232routing and cutting, incl. vacuum set	1	3 + N + PE	400	30 A	20.8 kVA	30 A / C40 A max	IEC 60309 32 A	4215 × 4220router boom 4740 across front	3180 mm2930 + 250 to install
Summa F1612with conveyor extension, incl. vacuum set	2	3 + N + PE	400	20 A	13.9 kVA	20 A / C	IEC 60309 32 A	2470 × 32042470 × 2195 without conveyor	2500 mm
Summa S One D1601.6 m roll cutter, drag knife	1	1 + N + PE	230	2 A	0.46 kVA	16 A / B	standard	1960 × 704 × 1112	—
Cutting subtotal	4				49.0 kVA

Both Summa figures include the standard vacuum set. On a 3 × 400 V + N supply the Metabo or Hercules router vacuum runs off the machine and needs no separate socket — that is only required on a 230 V build. Slab tolerance is the same for all three: solid level concrete, preferably antistatic, no more than 30 mm of deviation across the whole installation area, and no wooden floors or frames.

Finishing

Table 3 · Finishing department
Machine	Qty	Phases	Volts	Current	Power	Device	L × W × H (mm)	Mass	Data
Roll laminator, 1.6 m hot	1	1 + N + PE	230	21.7 A	5.0 kW	32 A / C	2100 × 750 × 1250	250 kg	Class
Miller Weldmaster T300 Extremekeder / hot air welder	1	2 poles + PE	400	15 A	6.0 kW	20 A / C or D	1500 × 600 × 1500	231 kg	Published
Programmable guillotine76–92 cm production class	1	3 + N + PE	400	9.4 A	5.5 kW	16 A / C	2000 × 1900 × 1500	2800 kg	Confirm
Photo book binderlayflat or perfect binder	1	1 + N + PE	230	8.7 A	2.0 kW	16 A / C	1200 × 800 × 1300	180 kg	Confirm
Acrylic line bender1.3–2.0 m heated wire	1	1 + N + PE	230	8.7 A	2.0 kW	16 A / C	2000 × 400 × 300	35 kg	Class
Juki DNU-1541 + servowalking foot, 2500 spm	2	1 + N + PE	230	3.3 A	0.75 kW	16 A / B	1194 × 521 × 1200table; head 36.5 kg	70 kg	Published
Juki DDL-8700 + servolockstitch, 5500 spm	2	1 + N + PE	230	2.4 A	0.55 kW	16 A / B	1194 × 521 × 1200table; head 28 kg	60 kg	Published
MAC AFRIC bench puffer & polisherEGRINB201	1	1 + N + PE	230	4.1 A	0.75 kW	16 A / B	600 × 300 × 350	17 kg	Published
Eyelet machine	1	1 + N + PE	230	2.2 A	0.5 kW	16 A / B	600 × 500 × 1400	60 kg	Class
Double head table top stapler	1	1 + N + PE	230	1.7 A	0.4 kW	16 A / B	700 × 400 × 450	45 kg	Class
Rotary paper trimmer	1	none	—	—	manual	—	1000 × 400 × 150	12 kg	Manual
Finishing subtotal	13				27.6 kVA			3823 kg

Published manufacturer nameplate data. Class no model named — scheduled at the class the rest of the fleet implies. Confirm the class materially changes the circuit: a light-production guillotine would be single-phase at 1.5 kW rather than three-phase at 5.5, and a manual layflat binder is under 0.5 kW rather than 2.

Colour and workflow

Table 4 · Colour management, RIP and prepress
Item	Qty	Phases	Volts	Current	Power	Device	Dimensions (mm)	Note
RIP and workflow serverCalderaRIP + EasyMedia, PrimeCenter Pro	1	1 + N + PE	230	2.6 A	0.6 kW	16 A / C	450 × 550 × 500	On UPS. Not supplied with the printers — the Midcomp quotation excludes the RIP PC.
Barbieri Spectro LFP qb SE	1	1 + N + PE	230	0.4 A	0.10 kW	16 A / B	850 × 450 × 250	External PSU. Keep off direct sun and out of HVAC discharge — readings drift with surface temperature.
Mac mini prepress workstation	2	1 + N + PE	230	0.67 A	0.155 kW	16 A / B	127 × 127 × 50	Scheduled at the Mac mini Pro envelope.
ASUS ProArt PA279CRV 27-in	2	1 + N + PE	230	0.61 A	0.14 kW	16 A / B	612 × 215 × 538	Panel is 26 W, but USB-C delivers up to 96 W to the Mac. Scheduled at 140 W so the circuit is not undersized.
Esko ArtiosCAD	1	none	—	—	software	—	—	Runs on a prepress seat. The structural design engine for POP and packaging.
Colour and workflow subtotal	7				1.3 kVA

Plant

Table 5 · Services plant — not in the brief, but the machines will not run without it
Item	Phases	Volts	Current	Power	Device	Why it is here
HVAC — chilled water plant, AHUs, pumps	3 + PE	400	63.5 A	44.0 kVA	80 A / C	Six machines carry published environmental limits. Section 05.
Air compressor, 15 kW VSD + dryer	3 + PE	400	28 A	19.4 kVA	40 A / C	Six machines need compressed air. Section 04.
Substrate store desiccant dehumidifier	3 + N + PE	400	11.5 A	8.0 kVA	16 A / C	Board and paper move dimensionally with moisture, and die-cut fit follows.
Extraction — Durst, Mimaki, Weldmaster, router	3 + PE	400	8.7 A	6.0 kVA	16 A / C	Durst makes extraction mandatory and the customer's responsibility.
Lighting and general small power	3 + N + PE	400	44 A	30.6 kVA	63 A / B	At 8 W/m² and 12 VA/m² over an assumed 1500 m².

The load calculation

Connected load is what sizes boards and cables. Maximum demand is what the meter sees and what eThekwini bills against. They are different numbers, and conflating them is how sites end up either paying for capacity they never use or tripping a main breaker in month three.

Every machine has its own demand factor, set from how it actually runs. The Indigo's published 14 kW is an average during print, and a press is not printing through makeready, blanket changes and colour checks. The item-by-item basis is in the workbook.

Connected load

237

kVA across 40 items, on the board-sizing basis.

Maximum demand

106

kVA diversified — forty-five per cent of connected.

Notified max demand

125

kVA with fifteen per cent margin, rounded to the next step.

Supply current

180

amperes at 400 V three-phase. This is the application number.

The single largest electrical load at Quant is not a press. It is the air conditioning — and the compressor, the substrate dehumidifier and the extraction take the plant share past the machines. In a temperate climate this chart would look completely different.

Four things the switchgear has to carry

Table 6 · Non-obvious protection requirements
Requirement	Driven by	What it means in practice
Type B RCD, 500 mA minimum	Durst P5 X	Durst specifies an all-current-sensitive residual current device. Type B units are a long lead-time item in South Africa — order with the switchgear, not after it, or the printer sits crated.
5 kA breaking capacity at the Indigo	HP Indigo 7900	A type C 50 A breaker rated 5 kA AIC, on a hard-wired conduit run with a lockable disconnect on the wall by the press. The neutral is permanently connected and must not be switched.
Supply stable within ±6 per cent	HP Indigo 7900	HP requires a voltage stabiliser if the site cannot hold this. Log the incoming voltage at Briardene across a full working week before deciding — a stabiliser at this size is not a small purchase.
Detuned power factor correction, about 30 kvar	Whole site	An uncorrected mix of VFD drives, vacuum motors and switch-mode supplies will sit near 0.85. Specify seven per cent detuned capacitor steps — plain capacitors will resonate with this fleet's harmonic current and fail early. Size the neutral full-section on every board carrying single-phase loads.

The board structure

Eight boards off one main panel. The Indigo gets its own board not because of its size but because of its regime: hard wiring, a lockable isolator, a supply-stability requirement, and a lighting circuit that has to dim independently of the rest of the factory.

The Indigo cell is roughly a quarter of the connected load on its own and carries the strictest requirements on the site, which is why it is a board rather than a group of circuits. A full way-by-way schedule is in the workbook.

Compressed air

Six machines need compressed air, and the sizing turns almost entirely on one option: whether the Summa tables are ordered with the Pneumatic Oscillating Tool.

Without it, each table needs 20 l/min. With it, 350. Three tables, and connected demand goes from 447 l/min to 1,437 — a seventeen-fold step on each table and a threefold step on the whole factory.

Table 7 · Air demand, free air delivered
Consumer	Qty	Pressure	Base	With POT	Air quality
Miller Weldmaster T300	1	7 bar	227 l/min	227 l/min	Dry, oil free at the head
Summa F1612 × 2	2	7 bar	40 l/min	700 l/min	ISO 8573-1 class 4 with POT
Summa F3232	1	7 bar	20 l/min	350 l/min	HF router: particle 3, water 4, oil 3
HP Indigo 7900	1	6 bar	30 l/min	30 l/min	Dry air to prevent corrosion
Durst P5 X	1	6–8 bar	20 l/min	20 l/min	Particle 1, water 4, oil 1 — the strictest on site
Eyelet, stapler, blow guns	3	6–7 bar	110 l/min	110 l/min	General
Connected demand	9		447 l/min	1437 l/min
Design duty × 0.75 simultaneity, + 20% leakage and growth			402 l/min14 cfm	1293 l/min46 cfm

Specify 15 kW variable speed. The calculated duty is an 11 kW machine, but a VSD compressor tracks a load that swings between roughly 450 and 1,300 l/min rather than loading and unloading against it — and 15 kW carries the Phase 2 Venus 33X without a second compressor and a second compressor room.

Ring main in 40 mm aluminium, run as a loop, take-offs from the top of the main with swan-neck drops so condensate cannot run into a machine. A refrigerant dryer to ISO 8573-1 class 4 serves the ring; the Durst gets its own filter train at the drop — one micron coalescing, then 0.01 micron, then activated carbon — because particle 1 and oil 1 are stricter than anything else on site needs.

Put the compressor outside the conditioned envelope. It rejects about 15 kW, and inside the pressroom you pay for that heat twice: once to make it and once to take it away.

The room

Six of these machines publish an operating envelope. Overlay them and the working window is not an average or a compromise — it is the intersection, and it is small.

Two machines pull in opposite directions. HP will not run the Indigo below 50 per cent relative humidity. Fujifilm caps the Triton at 60. The Indigo caps temperature at 25 °C; the Triton wants at least 22 for guaranteed colour accuracy. That leaves a box three degrees wide and ten points deep.

Six published envelopes and the one region common to all of them. The Indigo's dashed outline is the binding constraint at both the humidity floor and the temperature ceiling — take it out and the box triples in size.

Why Durban makes this expensive

A room at 23 °C and 55 per cent has a dew point of 13.4 °C. Durban's summer design condition is 30 °C dry bulb against 24 °C wet bulb — a dew point around 22.7 °C, roughly nine kelvin above the room. Mid-winter sits near 12 °C, just below it.

So the pattern is: dehumidify hard for about nine months, sit near neutral for three, and humidify essentially never. Any scheme built around a humidifier is solving the wrong problem on this site.

It shows up in the load. Of the 31.5 kW of fresh-air duty, 22 kW is latent — seven parts in ten is removing water, not heat. A plant sized on sensible tons alone will hold temperature perfectly and lose the room to humidity, which is exactly how paper curls and register drifts.

Table 8 · Cooling load
Component	Basis	Sensible	Latent	Total
Building envelope	Roof and walls at 30 W/m² over 1500 m², assuming an insulated roof	45.0 kW	—	45.0 kW
Machine heat to room	From the equipment schedule; the Indigo's 4 kW is HP's published figure	33.7 kW	—	33.7 kW
Fresh air — occupancy and extraction make-up	2245 m³/h	5.9 kW	14.3 kW	20.2 kW
Lighting	8 W/m²	12.0 kW	—	12.0 kW
Fresh air — Durst mandate	1000 m³/h minimum at the machine room input	2.7 kW	6.3 kW	9.0 kW
People	25 persons, light industrial	3.0 kW	2.0 kW	5.0 kW
Fresh air — Indigo	255 m³/h	0.7 kW	1.6 kW	2.3 kW
Total cooling load	Install approximately 150 kW / 43 refrigeration tons	103.0 kW	24.2 kW	127.2 kW

Chilled water, not split units

Holding a 13.4 °C room dew point needs a coil at 6–7 °C with reheat downstream. Direct expansion splits cannot do that with any control — they reach temperature setpoint and stop, and the room drifts wet.

Reheat is not waste here. Over-cool to strip the water, then reheat to hit 23 °C, and recover the reheat off the condenser so it costs almost nothing to run.

Zone it, and seal it

Conditioning the whole shell to Indigo tolerance is the expensive way. Hold the pressroom and substrate store tight; ventilate finishing and dispatch. That is roughly a third off the plant.

Airlock or fast-acting doors on the dock. A roller shutter left open for one delivery undoes an hour of dehumidification.

The substrate store is a different problem

Desiccant, not refrigerant, held below the pressroom dew point year-round. Board and paper move dimensionally with moisture — roughly 7.5 to 15 mm across the grain on a 750 mm sheet over a twenty-point humidity swing.

That is the difference between a die-cut that fits the cutter file and one that does not, and between an Indigo sheet that registers front to back and one that does not.

Two machines belong outside

The Indigo chiller rejects about 36 kW and the compressor about 15. Neither belongs inside the conditioned envelope, and both need to sit inside the security line.

The chiller also needs a one-inch water feed at 10 bar and a drain, which is worth confirming exists at Briardene before the position is fixed.

Space, slab and access

Machine dimensions are in section 01. What follows is the space that cannot be bought back: clearance, headroom, floor loading, and the door the biggest crate has to fit through.

Table 9 · Space envelopes with operating clearance
Machine	Envelope (mm)	Area	Min ceiling	Floor
Durst P5 X	8540 × 5490	46.9 m²	2200 mm	179 kg/m² distributed; 375 kg per primary foot on a 106 cm² pad. Not asphalt.
Summa F3232 with router	5715 × 5720	32.7 m²	3180 mm	1972 kg. Level concrete, 30 mm maximum deviation over the whole area. The ceiling must carry the rail and vacuum hose.
Mimaki TS330-3200DS	6500 × 3100	20.2 m²	1650 mm	968 kg over a long narrow footprint.
Summa F1612 with conveyor each of two	3970 × 4704	18.7 m²	2500 mm	As the F3232.
HP Indigo 7900 line	5660 × 2950	16.7 m²	2755 mm	7.5 kg/cm² maximum pad load. Level better than one per cent. Vibration below 0.2 g rms. A structural engineer must approve the layout.
Acuity Triton	4770 × 2700	12.9 m²	2100 mm	186 kg on a castered stand.
HP PageWide XL Pro 8200 + stacker	4000 × 2800	11.2 m²	2100 mm	527 kg plus a 233 kg loaded stacker.
Summa S One D160	2960 × 1704	5.0 m²	2100 mm	48 kg.
Indigo chiller outside the envelope	2140 × 1950	4.2 m²	2000 mm	370 kg. Water feed and drain.
Finishing department	—	90.0 m²	2500 mm	The guillotine at roughly 2800 kg is the only heavy item.
Colour and prepress	—	25.0 m²	2500 mm	Controlled indirect light at the colour bench.
Machine and department envelope		302 m²		At the thirty per cent that machine envelope typically occupies in a print factory, this fleet needs roughly 1000 m² gross as an absolute minimum — before substrate store, work in progress, dispatch, plant room, offices and circulation, and before any Phase 2 headroom.

The two dimensions that decide whether Briardene works

3180 mm of clear height at the F3232

The router gantry needs 2930 mm to run and another 250 mm to install — and Summa notes that the ceiling itself must carry the weight of the rail and the vacuum hose. Measure to the lowest obstruction over that position: sprinkler heads, duct runs, a purlin.

A ceiling bracket rather than a gantry brings it down to 2750 mm, which is the fallback if the height is not there.

2300 × 2150 mm at the delivery door

The Durst crate is 6630 × 2300 × 2150 mm at 3950 kg on truck packing — and 2300 mm tall if it ships by sea. That is the governing opening on the whole project.

Behind it: the Summa F1612 crate needs a 2650 mm clear pathway with turning radius, the Indigo engine needs 1270 × 2095 mm even uncrated, and both Summa documents say to avoid stairs entirely.

Sources. Manufacturer site preparation documents take precedence over published datasheets throughout. Durst Pre-Installation Guideline P5 X version 1.3 (05.05.2025); Summa Site Preparation Document for F3232 version 003 and Site Preparation Document F1612-4x; HP Indigo Site Preparation Guide (7-series platform); HP PageWide XL Pro 8200, Pro Stacker and Pro Sheet Feeder datasheets; Fujifilm AQUAFUZE and Acuity Triton product brochure; Barbieri Spectro LFP qb brochure (May 2024); Mimaki TS330-3200DS published specification (Mimaki Europe, confirming 1 x single phase 100-120/200-240 V, 10 A, 2.4 kW maximum, 925 kg main unit plus 43 kg supply unit, and heat fixation by calender on both the direct and transfer paths); Miller Weldmaster T300 Extreme specification; and Juki, Adendorff, Apple and ASUS technical specifications. Vendor quotations: Midcomp Impact_PW8200_080726NJ (08.07.2026), Impact_BarbieriSE_18072NJ, GA-2025-08-ZA-000005, GA-2025-07-ZA-000006, GA-2025-05-ZA-000005 and GA-2025-05-ZA-000006, and Durst QUO-08633-C3G4Y0 (17.07.2025). All held in the Impact Display R&D Shared / Print folder.

Assumptions. Floor area 1500 m²; Durban summer design condition 30 °C dry bulb against 24 °C wet bulb; envelope gain 30 W/m² assuming an insulated roof; lighting 8 W/m²; small power 12 VA/m²; 25 occupants. The guillotine, photo book binder, roll laminator, acrylic bender, eyelet machine and table stapler are scheduled at class allowances because no model was specified. Every assumption is a named, editable cell in the accompanying workbook.

Revision 6 · Phase 1 only, at 69 Chris Hani Road, Briardene. Corrected after Yahya supplied Mimaki's own description of the TS330-3200DS: it is a hybrid that prints direct to fabric as well as to transfer paper, and my earlier claim that it prints paper only was wrong. Supersedes revision 5, which was written against the Pran Park facility and a different fleet. Phase 2 — land in the Dube TradePort SEZ, a second JHF Venus 33X and an HP Indigo 7K — appears here only where Phase 1 must leave room for it. Prepared for Yahya Campbell, Retail Detail.