Stainless Steel Awards 2008

Achievement Award

Jack Moody

Jack Moody has been a technological stalwart in the stainless steel industry for 40 years. He has forged and defined a legacy of unselfish and long-standing dedication to the niche and sophisticated engineering discipline. This year he receives a achievement merit award at the Stainless Steel Awards.

Moody was born in the UK on the 5th March 1935 and immigrated to South Africa in 1947. His late father was head-hunted as an expert in stainless steel fabrications by the late Albert Moore. After matric Moody went into boiler making briefly, then worked in the plastics industry for 15 years, eventually becoming a production engineer. In the interim his family moved to the reef where Moody joined them in 1969 to get the fledgeling Tank End Eng going. After his mother died in the early 1970s Moody senior left Jack to run Tank Ends.

The company went through all the up and down cycles that the fabrication industry seems prone to and by 1980 it was looking good with its first big spinning machine almost completely built. Then the Moodys lost their eldest son in 1982 and Jack’s father the following year. Thanks to a great crew and many friends the Moodys got through that. Jack served on Sassda’s fabricator sector’s board as chairman for a number of years before retiring.