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LHL ENGINEERING

www.lhl.co.za

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SERVICE market, and the international market is supplied
on a project basis. International customers include
EXCELLENCE Bayer, BASF, Buckman Laboratories, Coca Cola, Dow
LHL Engineering was established in February 1969 Corning, Tisand, Rohm and Haas, Sara Lee, Unilever,
as a support for the German imported LHL axel as Degussa, Cray Valley Products, Hoechst, and Scott
used in the logistics industry. LHL has, over the last Bader, SAPREF, Illovo Sugar.
50 years, established itself as an excellent brand LHL Engineering has successfully exported pressure
boasting international quality ratings by working vessels and other equipment including complete
with ISO standards. The centrally located factory at plants to Australia, the Far East, Zambia, Angola,
New Germany, 15km from the Port of Durban, offers Tanzania, Mauritius, Seychelles, the Comores Islands,
>3000m² of production area and is ideally situated Hong Kong and United Arab Emirates, Zambia,
close to all major road links to the various regions of Mozambique, Botswana, amongst others.
South Africa.
A Dedicated, Diverse Team
Over the years LHL Engineering has built up a solid LHL Engineering’s products are manufactured by a
reputation in terms of its management and the quality dedicated team who specialise in steel fabrication and
of both products manufactured as well as services installation. The management team has more than 100
rendered. LHL Engineering caters for all types of years combined experience in the industry and an open
fabrication, using various grades of steel – ranging door, participative management style is practiced.
from carbon through to 3CR12, 304SS, 316SS, titanium As a level 1 BBBEE contributor, the staff policy is to
and other exotics. afford opportunities to employees who exhibit the
Facilities commitment and skills with reference to addressing
Facilities include bending, cutting, and rolling with a past inequalities. The company has ongoing in-
120ton press, a three metre guillotine, and rolls able house and formal training, which is outsourced to
to handle 25 mm plate. The workshop has a lifting internationally recognised training organisations. The
capacity of 10 tons via its overhead cranes, which have well-trained, happy workforce ensures stability and
a five metre under hook working clearance. Larger jobs continuity.
are undertaken with the use of external mobile cranes Design and Drawing Facilities
as required. The heaviest complete unit built at LHL In-house, as well as outsourced design and drawing
was 36 tons, the longest unit fabricated was 22 metres facilities, are offered, using the following computer
and the widest unit manufactured and transported off programme for vessel calculations:
site was 5.5m.
� ASME
Major Customers � BS 5500
LHL Engineering specialises in the fabrication, � TEMA R
refurbishment and installation of stainless steel tanks, � Saddle - BS 5500
pressure vessels, heat exchangers, reactors and � Vibration/deflection of vertical vessels
piping. Major customers are in the sugar, chemical, � Local loading of nozzles
pharmaceutical, petro-chemical, wood and paper, � BS 5500 vacuum vessels
water and sanitation, transport, food and allied � Beam - bending stresses / deflection
industries. � API 620 tank code
� AutoCAD
Most products are manufactured for the South African � Project Planning
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