WJ is an engineering company that offers a comprehensive range of specialized products and services to the mining industry. We develop innovative designs and fabricating methods that are cost-effective, time-saving, and provide practical long-term quality solutions in partnership with our valued clients. With a history of almost 60 years, we are one of the oldest mining equipment manufacturing companies in South Africa.
Products:
We specialize in designing, draughting, detailing and manufacturing mining conveyances using normal structural steel, high-strength steel and aluminium, as well as consultation work.
Products designed, draughted and/or fabricated include:
- Skips
- Man and material cages
- Counterweights
- Loading/measuring flasks
- Equipment skeletons
- Crash steel simulations
- Skip tipping mechanisms
- Levelok clamp systems
- Enerbuff energy absorbing buffers
- Any shaft related applications
We also specialise in detailing and manufacturing structural steelwork by utilising clients' designs and site commissioning.
Products manufactured include:
- General structural steelwork
- Sinking equipment (sinking headgears, collar steelwork, shaft doors, sinking stages, kibbles, cactus grabs, shutter rings and dead man valves)
- Surface structures (winder houses, permanent headgears, conveyor systems, various tanks and pipes)
- Shaft steelwork (buntons, guides, station steelwork, rolling stock, monorails, shaft bottom steelwork, pipes, water and air, and steel shaft linings)
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Industry
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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Company size
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51-200 employees
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Headquarters
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Potchefstroom, North-West
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Type
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Privately Held
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Founded
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1964
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Specialties
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Mining skips, Man & Material cages, Counterweights, Loading/Measuring flasks, Equipment skeletons, Crash Steel Simulations, Skip Tipping Mechanisms, Levelok clamp systems, Enerbuff energy absorbing buffers, Sinking Equipment, Surface Structures, and Shaft Steelwork
