Manufacturing in Middelburg
Middelburg is steel making, chrome and ferroalloys on the Highveld. 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 Middelburg
This page covers all of Middelburg and its surrounding areas — Middelburg Industrial, Mhluzi, Hendrina and Belfast. Wherever you are in and around Middelburg, the parts are manufactured at our Pinetown factory and quoted from one enquiry.
Middelburg Industrial
steelworks and heavy fabrication.
Mhluzi
a township supporting the local steel industry.
Hendrina
power-station country with maintenance contractors.
Belfast
farming and mining on the escarpment.
What we make for Middelburg
- 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 Middelburg
- 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 Middelburg
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 Middelburg customers
Do you make parts for companies in Middelburg Industrial, Mhluzi and Hendrina?
Yes. Pitchline Engineering manufactures precision components for businesses throughout Middelburg, Mpumalanga, including Middelburg Industrial, Mhluzi, Hendrina and Belfast. Every part is made at our factory at 32 Henwood Road, Pinetown.
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.
Can you handle both small and large batches?
Yes. Twelve of our lathes run with automatic barfeeders for high-volume production, and we also take on one-off and low-volume replacement parts.
Which services are most used by Middelburg 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.
Is Belfast covered too?
Yes. We treat all of greater Middelburg as one service area, so customers in Belfast get the same factory, the same services and the same quoting process.