Manufacturing in Newcastle
Newcastle is coal, steel and heavy engineering in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 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 Newcastle
Whether your business is in Riverside, Madadeni, Dundee and Ladysmith, this is the page for you: we manufacture for customers across greater Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, from our own factory in Pinetown.
Riverside
Newcastle's principal industrial township.
Madadeni
a large township with growing small-engineering activity.
Dundee
coal mining and agriculture south-east of Newcastle.
Ladysmith
tyre, food and textile manufacturing on the N11.
What we make for Newcastle
- 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 Newcastle
- 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 Newcastle
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 Newcastle customers
Do you make parts for companies in Riverside, Madadeni and Dundee?
Yes. Pitchline Engineering manufactures precision components for businesses throughout Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, including Riverside, Madadeni, Dundee and Ladysmith. 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.
Is Ladysmith covered too?
Yes. We treat all of greater Newcastle as one service area, so customers in Ladysmith get the same factory, the same services and the same quoting process.
Which industries do you supply around Newcastle?
Around Newcastle we see Riverside (Newcastle's principal industrial township); Madadeni (a large township with growing small-engineering activity); Dundee (coal mining and agriculture south-east of Newcastle). The machinery behind that work needs shafts, bushes, gears, seals and custom spares — the parts we make every day.
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.