Every rig is cut, bent, machined and welded on our own floor.
No imported chassis. No badge-engineering. This is the machinery that turns raw steel plate into a working borehole rig — every station, under one roof in Limpopo.
From design to drilling rig, in six steps.
The journey every Drillbuilders rig takes — from a 3D model on our screens to a working machine — engineered and built by us.
Design
Every rig starts as a 3D model. We design and refine it in SolidWorks and Onshape — proving fit, strength and hydraulics on-screen before a single plate is cut.
Cut
Raw steel plate — up to 25 mm mild steel — goes on the fibre laser. Every bracket, gusset and panel is nested and cut in a single program — clean edges, no grinding, no waste.
Form
Flat plate is sheared, punched and folded into chassis rails, mounts and tank panels. The skeleton of the rig starts to take shape.
Machine
The CNC Efamatic and the mills turn and cut the precision parts a rig lives or dies on — spindles, subs and bushes, held to tolerance.
Weld
Parts are jigged dead-true on 3D welding tables and joined — increasingly by our welding robot — for consistent, repeatable structural welds.
Assemble
Hydraulics, mast and cab come together on the assembly bay. Every rig is built, wired and tested here before it ever leaves Mokopane.
The machines behind the rigs
A live look at our fabrication floor — every machine below is drawn straight from our own asset register.
