Welcome to TPI– Turning Platinum Into Enterprise!
TPI helps artisans, jewellery designers and SMMEs turn platinum group metals into market-ready products.
Master Mentors
Six months of feasibility, skills and compliance.
Three years of workshops, machinery and mentoring.
Equipment access, trade shows and retail pipelines.
A non-profit Seda Technology Programme incubator at ORBIT TVET College, accelerating local beneficiation of platinum group and precious metals.
Graduated businesses
Jobs sustained
in the region
Secure workshops, specialised machinery, bulk metal support and master artisan mentoring, all under one roof.
Backed by Seda and the DSBD
Years Supporting Makers
TPI gave me access to a casting machine and a mentor. I went from making pieces at home to supplying retail stores.
Jewellery Designer
The pre-incubation phase helped me register my business and price my work properly for the first time.
Jewellery Designer
Through TPI I exhibited at my first trade show and landed corporate gifting orders.
Jewellery Designer