Proudly serving the industry for 50 Years

Engineering Fabricators was established in December 1963 by Gilbert Skellern and Karel Bloom. They bought its present factory site at 18 Taaibos Street, Powerville in Vereeniging. The company put up a structural steel building and even before completion, started production. Production started with manufacturing of the design and erection of factory buildings.

Karel Bloom passed away in 1967 and Gilbert's son, Geoffrey Skellern was appointed director of the company.

The company did some heavy steel construction such as components for the mechanism controlling the flow of water from dams in Pongola, Sand River, Vaal-Hartz and Bloemhof. They also manufactured cranes for the Durban docks, tar storage tanks for Iscor. Pressure vessels have also been manufactured to the exacting standards required by the petro-chemical and fertilizer industry.

Another area was the manufacturing of steel reels, bobbins and drums for wirerope and cable manufacturers. Engineering Fabricators has also specialised in the manufacturing of brick-making equipment under licence of a world repute German firm in kiln construction.

In 1967 the company manufactured the 750ft span of the new bridge over the Vaal River at Orkney. They also manufacture coco-pans for the gold mines and collieries and made drums for rope reeling hoists installed in various mine heads.

In 1986 Gilbert Skellern passed away. Geoffrey took over as managing director and Gilbert's grandson, Michael Skellern, the son of Geoffrey Skellern joined Engineering Fabricators' work force in the same year. Shortly after that, the company decided to also become a stockist of heat exchanger tubing, flanges, fittings and piping in carbon steel. This proved to be a successful addition to the business and eventually was expanded to stainless steel. Eventually, the manufacturing side of the business was closed down completely and today, Engineering Fabricators contribute to a major part of the industry by supplying heat exchanger tubing, flanges, fittings, piping in carbon and stainless steels.

Geoffrey Skellern passed away in 2012 and his son Michael Skellern, who was trained for years by an exceptional businessman, took over the business.

The company celebrated its 50th anniversary in December 2013.