The inception date of business – 1989
Business owner
Carel Scheepers
BA (HED postgraduate)
Approved Gauteng service agent for:
Rio Tinto Mining Company / Richards Bay Minerals / ESKOM / National Airways Corporation / Evander Gold Mines / Dredging-Africa / Gondwana Minerals artisanal diamond mining / SA Breweries Rosslyn Pretoria / SA Breweries Polokwane / ADG Mobility amphibian armoured personnel carriers / National Sea Rescue Institute / Dry Ice International /Sapphire Blue Helicopter Services / PCF Engineering – Manufacturers of Alluvial Diamond Mining Equipment /Wes See Konstruksie – Marine and River Diamond Mining / Audi Promotional inflatables //Sun City Waterworld / Forever Resorts / H²O Water Load testing bags / Gauteng North Recue / High Risk Security /Millennium Body Guards / SA Olympic Rowing team / SA Inland Diving Contractors / Starboard Stand Up Paddling inflatable boards / Central Gauteng Fly Fishing Union / Intex Inflatable Products / Ceres Fruit Juices Advertising inflatables / Dot Square Advertising & Promotional inflatables /Blyde River Canyon Lodge / Sediba Kwêle Adventure Camp /Ark Inflatables / Aquarius Inflatables / AquaStrike / Behind-the-Boat / Caesar Inflatables / Crusader Inflatables / Dot Square Promotional inflatables / Dux Inflatables / Gemini Evo Inflatables / Gladiator Inflatables / Falcon Inflatables / / Infanta Inflatables / Intex Inflatable Products / Mako Ribs Inflatables / ProDuck Inflatables /Prestige Inflatables/ Starboard – SUP – Stand Up Paddle Boards/ Stealth Inflatables /Stingray Inflatables / Superduck Inflatables
We started in 1989 as a one-man “sideline business”, repairing inflatable boats.
The business has since then evolved into a multi-product
- Development,
- Manufacturing,
- Repairs &
- Maintenance enterprise, with diverse customers all over Africa & the Indian Ocean islands
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- 5-year guarantee on manufactured goods
- 6 months guarantee on repaired goods
We offer solutions to a diverse range of industries from:
Aviation
- Service & repair of National Airways Corporation’s firefighting water buckets
- Service & repair of National Airways Corporation’s portable fuel bladders
Mining
- Stope vent control air plugs & barriers
- Inflatable plugs for open cast drilling holes explosives emulsions
- Alluvial diamond dredger barges PONTOONS
- Marble & Granite Quarry Air pressure bench throwing bags
Industrial
- Load testing water or sand-filled bags & bladders (testing passenger lifts, etc)
- Marine Salvage underwater air lifting bags of various shapes & capacities
- Airlifting bags/jacks to lift vehicles of various shapes & capacities
- Plugs (Inflatable) for municipal drainage pipes, when effluent run-off water needs to be sealed off for maintenance & repairs on the pipeline/culvert – all dimensions . . . compressor compatible
- Inflatable booms for rivers & dams
- Inflatable Dunnage Bags to secure goods & prevent them from shifting in transit
- Low-pressure industrial gas accumulator (eg. CO²)
- Biogas bladder accumulator
Commercial
- Repair of inflatable advertising props for Ceres Fruit Juice Company & selected KFC franchises
- Inflatable advertising billboards
- Buoy in the dam to advertise customer’s brand & products, during a boat race or a swimming event
- Truck Tarpaulin Tautliner Curtains/covers – REPAIRS ON INSIDE WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE TO ARTWORK ON OUTSIDE
- Water bladders made to a specific order
- Glider aircraft water wing ballast bladders . . . REMANUFACTURING
- Bicycle washing bay for bicycle sporting events – portable & inflatable
- Jetty fenders – inflatable & armored with a layer of PVC flooring. Fenders protect the hull & pontoons of the boat from getting damaged on the wooden or metal jetty
- Gymnastic inflatable backflip trainer rollers
Fiberglass
- Repair damaged fiberglass surfaces / boats / canoes / paddle skis
- Replace rotten boat transom
- Fit keel strips on boats
Leisure Water Sport
- Inflatable boat repairs& manufacturing of new semi-rigid/RIB pontoons
- Repairs on leaking seams / punctures / gashes / cuts / valve replacements
- Floorboard replacements
- Also soft plastic boats such as SeaHawk, Mariner IV, Intex, Bestway, etc
- Tubes & towable repairs on Connelly, Airhead, Sport stuff
- Jet ski fishing inflatable buoyancy pontoons
- Pontoons add 300kg of added buoyancy – making it possible to STAND UP & “play the fish” anywhere on the jet ski deck
- Pontoons slide off like caravan tent within 1 minute to convert back into “sports configuration”
- Pontoons are slide on & are inflated within 5 minutes for the stable fishing platform (or for older folks, wife & kids, stability outriggers)
- Repairs & service of inflatable water sport towable mattresses for leisure boating
- SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board) repairs of seams, because overinflating while basking in the sunlight
- BLOB – Human catapult bladders
- Water ballast bladders to increase the draft of a boat hull, for improved wakeboarding waves
- Air buoyancy bags to increase flotation of canoes & yachts (prevent sinking)
- Flotation aids to train swimmers
Specimen Angling
- Inflatable boat repairs& manufacturing of new semi-rigid/RIB pontoons
- Repairs on leaking seams / punctures / gashes / cuts / valve replacements
- Floorboard replacements
- Bow bags
- Pontoons benches, with stowage bags slung under seats . . . seats, are attached to pontoons with velcro & can be positioned anywhere on the pontoons
- Bow transoms for electric motors
- Transom replacement/reinstallation/transom attachment turnbuckle brackets to support weigh of outboard on the transom . . . prevent transom from pulling loose from pontoons
- We manufacture replacement kick boat pontoons for existing frames & seats
- Float tube – All type of repairs on the internal inflatable bladder
Leisure Outdoors
- Camping mattress repairs – valve replacements / split seams repairs i.e. Intex, Coleman, & all other brands (cannot repair canvass tent fabric, type of mattresses)
- Jacuzzi inflatables . . rat has eaten holes/cuts / new valves (do not work on electric pumps)
- SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board) repairs of seams, caused by over inflation, while basking in the sunlight
- Jumping castle & inflatable slide repairs . . . cuts & leaking seams are welded & glued
- Paintball bunker refurbishing, repairs & manufacturing
- Caravan inflatable roof lifters
