Manufacturing in Paarl
Wine, fruit packing and food processing in the Cape Winelands. From our Pinetown factory we manufacture turned, milled, ground and moulded components for Paarl businesses — from repeat production runs to one-off replacement spares for plant in the area.
Suburbs and areas we supply around Paarl
This page covers all of Paarl and its surrounding areas — Paarl Industria, Wellington, Stellenbosch, Worcester and Malmesbury. Wherever you are in and around Paarl, the parts are manufactured at our Pinetown factory and quoted from one enquiry.
Paarl Industria
engineering and packaging plants.
Wellington
agricultural processing and workshops.
Stellenbosch
wine, research and precision manufacturing.
Worcester
food, wine and agricultural engineering in the Breede Valley.
Malmesbury
grain handling and agricultural machinery in the Swartland.
What we make for Paarl
- 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 Paarl
- 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 Paarl
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 Paarl customers
Do you make parts for companies in Paarl Industria, Wellington and Stellenbosch?
Yes. Pitchline Engineering manufactures precision components for businesses throughout Paarl, Western Cape, including Paarl Industria, Wellington, Stellenbosch, Worcester and Malmesbury. Every part is made at our factory at 32 Henwood Road, Pinetown.
Which industries do you supply around Paarl?
Around Paarl we see Paarl Industria (engineering and packaging plants); Wellington (agricultural processing and workshops); Stellenbosch (wine, research and precision manufacturing). The machinery behind that work needs shafts, bushes, gears, seals and custom spares — the parts we make every day.
Which services are most used by Paarl 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.
Are you accredited?
We are a multi-disciplined, ISO accredited manufacturing facility and have been machining components since 1985.
Is Worcester and Malmesbury covered too?
Yes. We treat all of greater Paarl as one service area, so customers in Worcester and Malmesbury get the same factory, the same services and the same quoting process.