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Rand Building Hydraulics
Rand Building Hydraulics

58 Steel Road, Spartan, Kempton Park

tel:  
+27 11 394 3477
fax:  
+27 11 394 3478
email:  
[email protected]
url:  
www.rbh.co.za

Iso Certification ISO 9001:2015

Core business offering: adaptors, fittings, hose assemblies, quick couplers, solenoid and hand-operated directional control valves, high pressure ball valves, in-line flow control valves, cartridges, gear pumps, couplings, bellhousings, vane pumps, pressure compensated piston pumps, hydraulic motors, test equipment, seamless hydraulic tubing, compression fittings, pipe clamps, cylinder kits, honed tubing, chromed rods.


Cape Town

tel: +27 21 510 5152
fax: +27 21 510 8508
[email protected]
Welkom

tel: +27 57 355 4832
fax: +27 57 355 5881
[email protected]
Davidson, Nicola
Internal Sales Supervisor
[email protected]
Fowkes, Robin
Managing Director
Greeff, Wanti
Welkom Branch Manager
[email protected]
Khan, Saffdar
Sales Manager
[email protected]
Makura, Riah
Personal Assistant to Sales Director
[email protected]
Mnisi, Daniel
Cape Town Branch Manager
[email protected]
Pillay, Vernie
Director
[email protected]
van der Merwe, Francis
Finance & HR Manager
[email protected]
Section - Actuators & manipulators
-Cylinder components & accessories
- Bar stock; Chrome plated
- Bar stock; Steel
- Barrels
- Boots & bushes
- Cylinder tubing; Seamless steel
- Nuts, pistons & rods
- Other
- Rings
- Seals & sleeves
-Cylinder variants
- Cushioned cylinders
- Custom
- Double acting
- Double rod end
- Rodless
- Single acting
- Spring return
- Cushioned cylinders
- Custom cylinders
- Double rod end
- Double-acting
- Rodless
- Single-acting
- Spring return
Section - Control systems & components
-Manifolds
- Drilled metal block
- Modular
-Valves
- Accumulator charge, bleed
- Cartridge
- Check
- Counterbalance
- Deceleration
- Directional control; ball
- Directional control; manual
- Directional control; pilot operated
- Directional control; solenoid direct
- Directional control; solenoid pilot
- Electrically operated
- Flow control; Flow control valves
- Hydraulically operated
- Integrated circuits
- Manually operated
- Modular
- Piloted
- Pneumatically operated
- Priority flow
- Proportional
- Sequence
- Servovalve
Section - Gauges, indicators, transmitters, sensors, encoders & switches
-Gauges & indicators
- Level
- Pressure
- Temperature
-Other
- Control panels
- Joysticks
Section - Motors, drives & motor controllers
-AC Motors
- Single phase; 1-10 kW
-Controller motor combinations
- Hydrostatic drive systems
- Other
-Motors
- Other
News from Rand Building Hydraulics:
High torque low speed hydraulic motor
Fourth Quarter 2008, Hydraulic systems & components, Rand Building Hydraulics

The BMR is a high torque low speed hydraulic motor. It has a wide speed range of 5 to 775 rpm, depending on model size. These hydraulic motors are available in nominal displacements from 50 cm³ to 400 cm³ ...

Rand Building Hydraulics: full steam ahead
Third Quarter 2008, News & events, Rand Building Hydraulics

Motion Control's editors had the opportunity to spend a morning recently at Rand Building Hydraulics with MD Robin Fowkes, and sales and marketing director Vernie Pillay.       Founded by Horst Guschker ...

Hydraulic safety braking systems
Second Quarter 2008, Hydraulic systems & components, Rand Building Hydraulics

Hydraulic system supplier Rand Building Hydraulics (RBH) supplies hydraulic equipment for Posi Brake and SAFHAS braking systems for use in off highway mobile and mining equipment.    The Posi Brake is ...

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Strain wave gearheads for precision and compact design
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Customised electromechanical systems for Africa’s toughest industrial environments
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Sustainability is transforming fluid power
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