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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