AFRIPLEX - Instant Organic Rooibos Tea

Afriplex supply organic, instant rooibos and other teas.
They offer unique products and services derived from Africa's indigenous plants. We match the growing need from international markets for innovative, cost effective, natural products for the nutritional and nutraceutical markets. By respecting the environment and creating products vital for society, everyone "including our customers" is set to benefit from our growth strategy.

AUDACIA - Sustainable Viniculture

Audacia is registered and authorised by the Wine and Spirit Board as an accredited Integrated Production of Wine (IPW) producer.

This programme entails the use of the latest Information and technology to track all aspects of production - both in the vineyard and cellar in order to guarantee environmentally friendly practices. This ensures the protection of non-renewable natural resources and the environment to promote man's future health and well-being whilst sustaining economically viable agricultural production.

BARNPORT - Distributors Of Honibe Dried Honey Drops

Totally eliminate packaging disposal because there isn't any! THE HONEY DROP is made with 100% all natural, pure dried Honibe honey. No additives. No artificial flavour. Great honey taste without the mess. The Honey Drop is made with 100% all natural, pure dried Honibe honey. We also offer a Honey Drop© with lemon. This is made with 100% all natural, pure dried Honibe honey and pure lemon.

BEAN THERE COFFEE - Truly Fair Trade, Personally Selected, Locally Roasted Coffee

With a love for coffee and a passion for the African adventure, Bean There Coffee Company acquires, through direct fair trade, the world's finest single origin coffee.

Direct fair trade means producers receive a fair payment for their coffee through equal engagement, which ensures community development, empowerment, and sustainability.

Bean There enhances these trading relationships through practicing direct fair trade which involves travelling to the country of origin, personally selecting the coffee, meeting the coffee farmers and their community and partnering with already established programs or initiating new programs.

BEYOND THE BEAN - Eco-Friendly Beverage Cups

Beyond the Bean has a range of clear cups and lids which are fully compostable in 50 days; straws within 2 years; cup sleeves 100% biodegradable (10 cases save 10 trees!). With each purchase of their Insulair triple-wall hot cups, BTB will donate a percentage of sales to plant trees in the Forest of Avon.

BEYOND THE BEAN - Socially Responsible Coffee

Caffé Cuidado from Beyond the Bean is blended from 75% Rainforest Alliance coffees together with other top quality beans. The word "Cuidado" is Spanish for "care" and it reflects the aims of the Rainforest Alliance in conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behaviour. The Rainforest Alliance believes that the key to ensuring long and healthy lives for people, for wildlife and for the planet is by establishing sustainable ways of working the land.

CHEF SHOP - Eco-Friendly Food & Beverage Containers

Chef Shop are proud suppliers of biodegradable food and beverage containers, plastic bags and tumblers to the Kruger National Park.

The biodegradable and compostable trays, plates and bowls are made of natural fibres like sugar cane and/or bamboo. The material is tasteless, has no smell and bears the OK Compost and Din Certco Label. It is highly versatile and made from 100% renewable resources like corn, sugar beets, maize, wheat and other starch-rich products.

CHEF SHOP - Guilt-Free Disposable Bathroom Tumblers

Disposable tumblers with a conscience. Some hotel chains forbid glass in guest bathrooms.

Chef Shop supply tumblers made from biodegradable Cellulose Compounds which are innovative Cellulose blends. Biograde achieves a temperature rating of 117° which exceeds the value of standard polystyrene and consists of 100% renewable resources.

CHEF SHOP - Laundry Bags That Biodegrade & Even Dissolve

Chef Shop provides biodegradable bags that are made of biopolymers that degrade and decompose after 10 to 45 days in a composting environment, depending on the method of composting. Water soluble bags dissolve during washing without harming the fabrics.

CONSOL GLASS - Locally Manufactured

Greenstuff in collaboration with Water Purification Solutions have developed a water solution for restaurants. Rather than invest in imported equipment and bottles, Water Purification have designed a filtration and sanitisation plant especially for kitchens and Consol have chosen a range of South African manufactured bottles for you to decant either still or carbonated filtered water. Customers are beginning to resist plastic bottles; especially those with a hefty carbon footprint.

CT SERVICES - H2O - Filtered Water Solutions

"Buy the system, not the bottle". Even the smallest entry-level H2O water purifier provides 11 000 litres of excellent purified water. Each system saves the environment from the impact of 22 000 small bottles of "carbon hungry" plastic bottles! Take a re-usable environment friendly container to an H2O Filling Station and draw your own excellent water at approximately 1 rand per litre. H2O systems are made of fully recyclable components, but it is their use, in the place of buying small plastic bottles of water, that really saves the environment.

CT SERVICES - H2O - Hydroboil Instant Hot Water

Hydroboil Pro has programmable timers, "sleep" mode and light sensitive power saving mode (i.e. when everyone turns the lights off and goes home, it goes into power saving mode). Attractive, boils to higher temperature (within 1 degree of boiling point, as opposed to up to 3 degrees of boiling point), LED displays.

CT SERVICES - H2O - Water Purification

The H2O US4 home water purifier produces up to 132 thousand litres of purified, healthy drinking water, retaining the mineral content. This saves on the carbon imprint of transporting and subsequent disposal of 132 thousand one litre plastic bottles, or 268,000 500 ml plastic bottles. Save up to 4 cents per litre.

DECOCRAFT - Crockery That Is ISO 14001 Certificated

The Steelite range of crockery is manufactured under strict environmental policy codes: 90% of factory waste recycled, all clay boy material before biscuit firing recycled, all plaster of Paris mould waste recycled as well as finished product recycled into tile manufacturing.

DILMAH TEA - Community & Environmentally Responsible Tea

Dilmah is the first producer owned tea brand in the world; handpicked, perfected and packed at source. A pledge made in the 1950s, ensures a business that is genuinely ethical; the success shared with workers and the community through the MJF Charitable Foundation which touches the lives of over 10,000 underprivileged people each year. Dilmah Conservation is helping to protect our precious environment whilst promoting sustainability.

GO ORGANIC - Organic Directory

The purpose of go-organic.co.za is to educate and increase the acceptance of organic methods in South Africa and facilitate trade between makers, sellers and users of organic products. They supply and trade in all mainstream and niche market certified organic and natural products, including: fruit, vegetables, herbs, wine, flowers, essential oils, food flavourants, dairy, fish, mushrooms, traditional medicines, health and beauty, maize, wheat, grain, corn, soya, input products e.g. composts, pest control, feeds.

GREEN HOME - Biodegradable Take-Away Containers

Green Home products supply biodegradable take-away food containers. All Green Home products are made from natural and renewable resources and are 100% biodegradable and compostable!

Progress in bio-technology means that plant based starches and fibres (e.g. sugar cane and corn) can be used as environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional petroleum based plastics, paper and metals. The containers can be thrown into compost bins and will completely biodegrade into water, CO2 and healthy compost within a few weeks!

GREEN HOME - Unbleached Paper

Unbleached paper is used to make toilet paper and serviettes. Chlorine free, FSC Certified (Made from pulp that complies with regulations for sustainable forest management), locally manufactured, 100% biodegradable, recyclable, compostable after use and bulk packaged.

HAND PAINTED BY CARMEL - Minimise Laundering Table Linen

Hand Painted by Carmel has invented a unique fabric which is used as an alternative to conventional linen tablecloths, placemats and upholstery. Their fabric is pure cotton based and they can make bespoke designs for restaurants or simply match your colour scheme.

The fabric is designed to be wiped down when there are spills and stains & no laundry is required. There is a huge cost saving to the hotelier and saving of carbon emissions when linen requires no transport back and forth for laundering, not to mention savings in water and electricity to wash, dry and iron.

HEMPORIUM - Toiletries And Oils Made From Hemp

We have a wide range of products ranging from soaps, shampoos, body lotions, salad oils – all manufactured from organic, fast growing, pesticide-free hemp with natural hypo-allergenic, anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. 

HILLCREST BERRY ORCHARDS - Quality Produce

We are not certified organic but we practice very good farming methods using insect traps for example and minimal sprays, all of which conform to the EU regulations. Also our fruit is regularly tested for the Minimum Residue Level (MRL test).

Fruit that cannot be grown here (redcurrants, blackcurrants, cranberries etc) is imported from the EU or Chile - not China via a European front company!

INDEL B - Energy Efficient Minibars

K Plus is an exciting new line of compressor minibars introduced by Indel B in 2007. The new K Plus range is innovative in terms of its technical features, design and energy consumption.

The unique design and carefully chosen components of the K40+ have a resultant consumption of only 0,21 Kwh/24 (class A+) - a world leader in terms of low energy consumption in-room minibars! The number of minibars installed in a hotel is usually large and their electricity consumption may represent up to the 10% of the total hotel's electricity cost!

With spiralling energy costs and dwindling resources, energy efficient minibars are the natural way forward for the hotel industry.

INDULGENCE SPA - Organic Mighty Leaf Tea

The world’s finest whole leaf teas, herbs, fruits and flavour, too big for ordinary tea bags!  Indulgence Spa offer an exclusive large range of premium teas which contribute to creative menus designed to synergistically interact with your concepts.  Signature whole leaf blends are wrapped in sensually handcrafted, hand stitched silken and translucent pouches.  The Mighty Leaf presentation is beautifully styled in a number of options.

INDULGENCE SPA - Organic Soy Candles

Exceptional hand-poured soy candles are 100% eco friendly, contain no petroleum products, synthetic fragrances, boosters or colourants.

These natural, lead-free wicking candles are sure to excite the senses while promoting a healthy environment.  Scents are body safe and are FDA approved and GM free.

Indulgence Spa Organic Candles make a wonderful moisturizing treatment and are great for massages!

IYC FURNITURE - Recycled And Refurbished Kitchen Equipment

IYC is able to provide the hotel and restaurant industry all its recycled refurbished kitchen equipment from bain mares, double deep pot sinks, coffee espresso machines to 4 and half under counter bar fridges - you name it we have it.

KYASOL - Water Harvesting System

Drinking water is expensive and too valuable to be wasted on flushing toilets and irrigating gardens. Convenient and reliable rain water harvesting systems can reduce household municipal water consumption by up to 50%.

MIKO PURO - Fairtrade Coffee Products

Miko Puro have promised that for Every Kilo of Puro sold, Puro gives "from its own margin" R15.00 to Fairtrade and R3.00 to the Rainforest Fund with the World Land Trust.

Every Kilo they sell saves an ACRE of rainforest and every cup their customer serves saves a tree. 1355 acres of rainforest have been saved so far. They offer a complete range of coffee and tea products and equipment.

NATURAL PACK - Packaging Solutions

Natural Pack is a Wholesale Distributor of 100% Biodegradable and Compostable Packaging Solutions that can meet the needs of an evolving Eco-Compatible consumer market. All of our products are made from renewable resources with no harmful binding agents or chemical additives. 100% Eco friendly, 100% Bio degradable within 45-180 days.

NGWENYA GLASS - Handmade, Individually Blown Glassware From 100% Recycled Glass

The magical art of glassblowing with each item handmade from 100% recycled glass! The products include a range of tableware, drinking glasses, vases, jugs and ornamental African animals. Most of the glass is from soft drink bottles, gathered from all over Swaziland by children and brought to the factory. Also in exchange for cleaning litter from the main roads Ngwenya funds building materials and the sponsorship of the soccer team. The glass animal shapes raise awareness for the kingdom's most successful wildlife conservation fund to date, known as the Ngwenya Glass Rhino and Elephant Fund.

NICAF COFFEES - Ethical Production

LavAzza Tierra! espresso is a 100% Arabica blend of coffees characterized by aromatic notes, delicate with a lightly fruity acidity and floral sweetness. Tierra! espresso is obtained exclusively from three coffee growing communities in Honduras, Peru and Columbia as a result of LavAzza's sustainable development project aimed at combining quality with improved living conditions for these three small-scale coffee growing communities. This is archived by proving them with modern coffee growing equipment and the correct instruments to cultivate and market coffee while adopting environmentally friendly techniques. Tierra! is pre-ground medium-fine for espresso machines, stovetop espresso makers and filter drip coffee makers.

NU SEED - Oil Free Seed Snacks With Natural Flavours

A balanced combination of pumpkin, sesame, sunflower seeds, dry roasted (without oil) in savoury soy ensuring nutritional values aren't changed. Variety of natural flavours. Nu Seed's policy is to make an impact on a country that is stunted by poverty and unemployment.

PKS (ELECTROLUX) - New Air-O-Steam Touchline

Are you ready for an intuitive, green oven? Electrolux Professional introduces the new Air-O-Steam Touchline, the oven that simplifies cooking, saves money and reduces climate impact.

The newest addition, of the Electrolux Professional oven family, joins the reliability and top performance of Air-O-Steam oven, with the simplicity and the sustainability of the new, revolutionary, Touchline range.

RED ESPRESSO - Rooibos Tea Espresso

Made from 100% natural, best quality Rooibos tea, red espresso® is sourced from only the highest Biodiversity Certified farm in the Cedarberg. It is here that our Rooibos is grown at high altitudes in natural conditions and harvested by hand. red espresso®'s Rooibos is sourced directly from the farm and produced locally using only South African made materials.
All sales of red espresso® contribute towards restoring the highly endangered Clanwilliam Cedar Tree: an endemic species after which the area was named. Through our Red Cedar Restoration Project, we are committed to planting 1,000 Clanwilliam Cedar trees into the area every year.

ROCK OF AGES - Stone Hot Plates For Dining Rooms

Beautiful to compliment your decor, stone is 100% natural and unique.

This heating system has no emissions, uses hardly any oxygen, is safe and child friendly, cost effective and energy conscious. It has a long operating life because it won’t rust or age and continuously regenerates itself.

ROCK OF AGES - Stone Hot Tops

Stone is 100% natural and unique.  This heating system has no emissions, uses hardly any oxygen, is safe and child friendly, cost effective and energy conscious.

It is maintenance free, won’t dry out the air and won’t encourage allergic reactions by circulating dust.  It has a long operating life because it won’t rust or age and continuously regenerates itself.

Suitable anywhere, including bathrooms, being splashproof.  The radiant heat warms the entire room with no hot spots.

SMOKEY JOE'S - Nuts And Biltong In Eco-Friendly Transparent Cans

Smokey Joes has been established for almost a decade, consistently supplying top end hotels around the country with mini bar products. Our unique PLASTICAN range has been developed over the years to be the most environmentally and user friendly, as well as ensuring quality and longevity.

SWEET NOTHINGS - Safe & Healthy Alternative To Sugar & Sweeteners

Xylitol has none of the negative side effects of some non-nutritive sweeteners but in fact promotes health. It is made from sugar cane bagasse or from maize cobs. It is a 5-carbon sugar polyol that is metabolised in the liver, supplying only 40% of the calories of sugar.

• Found in fruit and vegetables like berries, cauliflower and mushrooms
• Occurs naturally in the human body
• The only sugar substitute recommended by Patrick Holford

TIERHOEK ORGANIC - Certified Organic Products

Certified organic products, extra fruit, reduced sugar jam and sulphur free dried fruit. No preservatives, additives. Biodegradable, compostable clear bags made from starch.

VERMONT LEATHER - Environmentally Friendly Tanned Leather

The first environmentally friendly tanned leather for the use in Guest Directories, Menus, Bill Presenters, the leather is sourced from free range cattle and the tanning process consumes 30 to 40% less water, using vegetable extracts. No harmful chemicals are added in the process. Vegetable dies are used for coloring. This leather is the only leather of its kind that is Certified in the Southern Hemisphere.

WATER PURIFICATION SOLUTIONS - Eco Solution Chiller Unit

Using a four stage purification and sterilization system (Sediment, Carbon, KDF and UV) the WPS Chiller Unit eradicates most water impurities that could possibly still be present in your water supply: Sediment, Turbidity, Chlorine, Traces of heavy metals, Odours and Taste, All Microorganisms and Bacteria. The purified water is chilled to a temperature of ± 4°C. Using a carbonation process, the water can be dispensed in either a sparkling or still state.

WATER PURIFICATION SOLUTIONS - Responsible Solutions For Treatment Of Water

WPS offers the full scope from design, manufacture, installation & maintenance on all water treatment systems. Solutions for potable water supply, irrigation, mineral water bottling, processing of foodstuffs, boiler feed water, containerised RO units. Methods applied are: Bag & Cartridge Filtration, media filtration, iron removal, stabilising of aggressive water, ultra filtration, UV sterilising, ozonation, water softening, and reverse osmosis. 

WHIRLPOOL - Kitchen And Laundry Appliances To Save Water And Energy

Whirlpool's commitment to environmental protection and natural resource efficiency began more than 30 years ago with the development of the Whirlpool Environmental Strategy. Incorporated therein is Whirlpool's 6th Sense technology; making energy and water efficiency a reality. With the use of built-in sensors to Sense, Adapt and Control the functions of the appliances; saving up to 50% (on selected models) of time, water and energy - Whirlpool should be the first choice in eco-friendly appliances.

WINTERHALTER - Innovative Solutions To Energy & Water Savings

Winterhalter is friendly to the environment and your wallet by reducing consumption of electricity, water, detergent and rinse aid in the long-term. Winterhalter's innovations and new processes allow you to significantly reduce your operating expenses.

The features involved in "Intelligent Resource Technology" reduce the amount of water and energy required, and keep down the cost of electricity, water, detergent and rinse aid.  Meanwhile, dishes are still washed perfectly and hygienically, a promise that Winterhalter has been keeping with its customers for sixty years.