GENERAL HINGES & ALUMINIUM FRAMES (PTY) LTD | 21 Jacoba St, Alberton, Alberton, 1450, Gauteng

From product design and material selection to fabrication or machining technique each step requires choosing the most effective machine to manufacture the components to guarantee a successful outcome General Hinges and Aluminium Frames Pty Ltd started operations in 1974 It has now grown into one of Southern Africas leading suppliers of alumimium windows for caravans commercial vehicles and buses as well as all types of hinges and general metal pressings The company was formed when three friends Antonio Barreira Peter Wade and Victorino Barbosa got together to establish the general engineering company that today has machining laser cutting bending riveting pressing welding Wire EDM aluminium bending and forming pipe bending and plastic injection moulding processes at its disposal and carries out most of them on a daily basis The introduction of a 3kW Trumpf TruLaser 3030 laser has opened up a new area of metal processing for General Hinges and Aluminium Frames an area that the company had not been in before