Value-added steel processing for OEMs

At SSAB Steel Service Center South Africa, we offer steel cutting, bending, drilling, machining, and welding for your custom and/or production-run components for industrial equipment and systems. We use SSAB’s best practices for processing all steels to your exact specifications.

Primary processing: steel cutting

Flame cutting

Flame (oxyfuel) cutting

Depending on the part specification, plate thickness, and your requirements, we can use either flame or plasma cutting techniques. Our flame (oxyfuel) cutting capabilities are:

MANUFACTURER: Messer
TABLE SIZE: 3000 x 1200 mm
NUMBER OF TORCHES: 4
TABLE TYPE: Water
TOLERANCES: ±3 mm

plasma cutting

Plasma cutting

Our plasma cutting machines are powered by a 400-amp upgradeable power source and operated to SSAB’s guidelines for Hardox® wear plate and Strenx® steel. Our plasma cutting capabilities are:

MANUFACTURER: Messer
TABLE SIZE: 3000 x 1200 mm
NUMBER OF TORCHES: 4
TABLE TYPE: Water
TOLERANCES: ±2 mm

Secondary steel processing

bending

Bending

Our secondary bending process uses a CNC bending press. This allows us to offer our clients a complete mechano (modular) kit solution, efficiently produced, to high quality standards. Our CNC bending capabilities are:

MANUFACTURER: Bystronic
BENDING LENGTH: 6600 mm
DISTANCE BETWEEN COLUMNS: 6200 mm
MAXIMUM PRESS POWER: 1000 ton

drilling

Drilling

RADIAL DRILLING MACHINE MANUFACTURER: Pax
PROCESSES: Drilling, threading, and counterboring for liners and engineered components


CNC machining

Machining

Hardox® wear plate and Strenx® steels are engineered for ease of machining. Our new, state-of-the-art CNC milling capabilities allow us to provide precision, machine-finished parts for OEMs and end users.

welding

Welding

Our skilled artisans have extensive experience welding Hardox® wear plate and Strenx® structural steels, strictly following SSAB’s guidelines. We can provide entire sub-assemblies, speeding your time-to-market and reducing your overhead.

The right steels for each equipment

Serving all Sub-Saharan Africa, we are the most qualified processor of SSAB Hardox®, Strenx®, Duroxite®, and Toolox® steels. Which SSAB steels are right for your components?

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Early, design-stage involvement produces better outcomes. Talk to us about the new equipment you want to build, or how best to upgrade existing designs using higher performance steels.

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