Manufacturing in Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth is also known as Gqeberha, the country's automotive manufacturing capital. Pitchline Engineering supplies precision machined and moulded components to businesses across the city — the industrial areas and surrounding towns we serve are listed below.
Suburbs and areas we supply around Port Elizabeth
This page covers all of Port Elizabeth and its surrounding areas — Struandale, Deal Party, Neave, Korsten, Coega, Markman, Uitenhage, Kariega, Perseverance and Jeffreys Bay. Wherever you are in and around Port Elizabeth, the parts are manufactured at our Pinetown factory and quoted from one enquiry.
Struandale
vehicle engine plants and their component suppliers.
Deal Party
engineering and warehousing near the harbour.
Neave
light industry and workshops close to the city.
Korsten
motor trade and general engineering.
Coega
the Nelson Mandela Bay industrial development zone.
Markman
heavy industry and fabrication in the north.
Uitenhage
vehicle assembly and a deep component-supply base.
Kariega
automotive manufacturing alongside Uitenhage.
Perseverance
light industry and distribution.
Jeffreys Bay
coastal manufacturing and marine trades.
What we make for Port Elizabeth
- Turned parts to Ø 310mm and up to 1m long — shafts, pins, spindles, bushes and adaptors
- Milled components to 1000 x 500 x 400mm, including palletised production runs
- Spur and helical gears cut by hobbing or shaping
- Ground surfaces, cylindrical and centreless work to close tolerance
- Moulded rubber seals, bushes, mountings and extruded profiles
- Repeat production runs and one-off replacement spares for plant in Port Elizabeth
- Our own product range: thermoplastic, spray and glass bead road marking guns, spreader plates, air brake repair kits and the Model 10/65 1200 short bar automatic loader
- Automatic barfeeders for CNC lathes — extra unattended production hours for turning shops in Port Elizabeth
CNC Turning
14 CNC lathes, up to Ø 310mm and 1m long, 12 of them on automatic barfeeders.
CNC Milling
5 CNC mills to 1000 x 500 x 400mm, three palletised and four with CNC rotary tables.
Grinding
Surface grinding to 1200 x 600mm, cylindrical to Ø 200mm and centreless from Ø 6mm.
Rubber Molding
5 vacuum and 4 standard compression presses with 3 in-house rubber extruders.
Gear Cutting
2 hobbing machines for spur and helical gears, 3 shapers for spur gears.
Welding And Manual Lathes
Conventional workshop support: manual lathes, presses, broaching, saws and polishing.
Barfeeder Machines
Our own automatic barfeeder range, sold for over 20 years and run on our own lathes.
Roadmarking Guns
Thermoplastic, paint spray and reflective glass bead application guns.
Airbrake Repair Kits
Nearly 600 air brake repair kits, manufactured here and marketed as ManuMark.
Questions from Port Elizabeth customers
Do you make parts for companies in Struandale, Deal Party and Neave?
Yes. Pitchline Engineering manufactures precision components for businesses throughout Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, including Struandale, Deal Party, Neave, Korsten, Coega, Markman, Uitenhage, Kariega, Perseverance and Jeffreys Bay. Every part is made at our factory at 32 Henwood Road, Pinetown.
Are you accredited?
We are a multi-disciplined, ISO accredited manufacturing facility and have been machining components since 1985.
Do you supply road marking guns and air brake kits to Port Elizabeth?
Yes. Alongside contract machining we supply our own thermoplastic, spray and glass bead road marking guns, spreader plates, ManuMark air brake repair kits and the Model 10/65 1200 short bar automatic loader.
Can you work from a sample instead of a drawing?
Yes. Send us the worn or broken part and we can measure it at our factory and manufacture replacements to match.
Which industries do you supply around Port Elizabeth?
Around Port Elizabeth we see Struandale (vehicle engine plants and their component suppliers); Deal Party (engineering and warehousing near the harbour); Neave (light industry and workshops close to the city). The machinery behind that work needs shafts, bushes, gears, seals and custom spares — the parts we make every day.