Manufacturing in Barberton
Barberton is gold mining and forestry in the Lowveld mountains. 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 Barberton
This page covers all of Barberton and its surrounding areas — Barberton Industrial, Sabie and Graskop. Wherever you are in and around Barberton, the parts are manufactured at our Pinetown factory and quoted from one enquiry.
Barberton Industrial
mine-supply workshops.
Sabie
timber and sawmilling in the escarpment forests.
Graskop
forestry and tourism services.
What we make for Barberton
- 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 Barberton
- 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 Barberton
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 Barberton customers
Do you make parts for companies in Barberton Industrial, Sabie and Graskop?
Yes. Pitchline Engineering manufactures precision components for businesses throughout Barberton, Mpumalanga, including Barberton Industrial, Sabie and Graskop. Every part is made at our factory at 32 Henwood Road, Pinetown.
Which services are most used by Barberton customers?
CNC turning and milling for machined spares, grinding where a close tolerance finish is needed, gear cutting for drives and gearboxes, and rubber moulding for seals and mountings.
What sizes can you handle?
Turned parts to Ø310mm and up to a metre long, milled components to 1000 x 500 x 400mm, spur and helical gears, ground surfaces to close tolerance, and moulded rubber parts from our own presses.
Which industries do you supply around Barberton?
Around Barberton we see Barberton Industrial (mine-supply workshops); Sabie (timber and sawmilling in the escarpment forests); Graskop (forestry and tourism services). The machinery behind that work needs shafts, bushes, gears, seals and custom spares — the parts we make every day.
Are you accredited?
We are a multi-disciplined, ISO accredited manufacturing facility and have been machining components since 1985.