Production manufacturing engineering since 1948
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Featured in Metalworking News
Profiled as a specialist in production & jobbing machining
South African trade publication Metalworking News profiled Robb & Carter Manufacturing Co (PTY) Ltd, tracing the company from its 1948 founding by Arthur Carter and Eric Robb through to its modern CNC-equipped shop floor. The feature covers the firm’s heritage in repetition and precision machining, its early adoption of thread whirling, insulated rail joint development, and its work for the railway, mining and construction sectors.
Read the articleRobb and Carter was one of the first engineering companies in South Africa to make use of thread whirling … We still use this process in the company today.
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