Diesel engine component remanufacture saves costs
Key sectors such as rail, mining, power generation and marine transport that rely on large diesel engines, are increasingly turning to diesel engine component remanufacturing services in an effort to seek cost-containing measures in the current difficult economic climate.
Germiston-based Metric Automotive Engineering offers the remanufacture of large diesel engine components as a way of achieving considerable savings over new replacement. The company asserts that the local remanufacturing option makes even more economic sense as the global pandemic fuels exchange rate volatility and disrupts cross-border supply chains.
In addition, Metric Automotive Engineering assures clients of high-quality remanufacturing and warns against the trend toward the unprotected importation of remanufactured diesel engines, which the company sees as a threat to the remanufacturing element of the country’s engineering sector.
The company further adds that this quality is ensured by its comprehensively equipped facilities and its capacity to handle large diesel engine components. With one of the leading crankshaft grinding facilities in Africa, Metric Automotive Engineering can grind shafts up to 4.7 m long and up to two t in weight. This allows the company to grind crankshafts from industrial compressors through to V16 locomotive diesel engines. Its workshop also includes two state-of-the-art, three-axis computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which are the only machines of their type in Africa. These CNC machines perform line-boring, surfacing and blue-printing of engine blocks up to 6 m in length.
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