PME CNC Machining Takes on One-off and Small-Batch CNC Parts for KwaZulu-Natal Plants From Its Pinetown Job Shop

29 October 2026 by MyPR

The Pinetown job shop mills and turns shafts, bushes, plates, flanges and fixtures in small batches, with drawing review and sample part remakes.

PINETOWN, South Africa – The part that stops a filling line is rarely a catalogue item. It is a worn bush, a cracked adaptor plate or a roller nobody has a drawing for, and the plant needs two of them, not two thousand. PME CNC Machining, a CNC job shop in Pinetown, has listed its CNC milling and turning services for exactly that kind of work, from one-off replacement parts and prototypes to short repeat batches.

What comes off the machines

Milling covers prismatic parts with faces, pockets, slots and drilled features: base plates, adaptor plates, mounting blocks, brackets, housings with bored seats and tapped holes, equipment covers, wear strips, guide rails and slide plates. Turning handles the round work, including stepped shafts with grooves and shoulders, bushes, spacers, dowel pins, pulleys, flanges with drilled bolt circles, rollers and shaft couplings. The shop also makes simple jigs, workholding fixtures, tooling clamps, connector blocks and small manifolds with drilled passages and threaded ports.

Regular work comes from food machinery and packaging lines, pump and valve parts for water plants, and support equipment for the automotive, mining and agricultural trades.

When the drawing is missing

Where the original drawing is lost, PME can machine from an existing sample part. Where a drawing exists but a dimension or note is unclear, the team reviews it before cutting starts and offers tolerance guidance, material selection and suggestions to remove machining a part does not need. Assembly fit checks and basic inspection reporting are available for mating parts, and repeat orders are matched to the part history so the next batch fits like the last.

“Tell us what the part does and what it sits against,” said PME’s production planner. “A bush running on a shaft in salty coastal air needs different thinking to the same bush in a dry plant room inland. That conversation is a lot quicker than remaking a batch.”

Material choice is part of the service. The shop works in mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper and selected engineering plastics, and flags corrosion resistance for parts that will be stored outdoors or used near the sea around Durban and Richards Bay.

Sending a job

Quotes start from a drawing or a photo of the part, the material and the quantity, sent through the form on the PME CNC Machining website. The Pinetown workshop quotes within one working day and handles work for Durban, Westmead, New Germany, Umhlanga, Pietermaritzburg, Richards Bay and Johannesburg.

Image caption: A small batch of turned stainless shafts, brass bushes, drilled flanges and milled aluminium plates laid out for inspection at a CNC job shop in Pinetown.

About PME CNC Machining

PME CNC Machining is a CNC milling and turning job shop in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, making prototype, replacement and small-batch parts for manufacturers and engineering teams across South Africa. It is part of the same South African trade network as am.co.za. PME CNC Machining is operated by Astros Marketing (Pty) Ltd, 2 Makro Place, Sunnyrock 1401.