Historic Overview
About us
In 1978 Mr. J.S. (Koot) Bothma, a Refractory Engineer, started off with 4 labourers in a small plant on his small holding producing and selling Refractory products. He registered Flintcast Refractories in 1979 and the first client was Rustenburg Platinum mine. Refractory castables were supplied for relining and repairs of their pots. Flintcast Refractories (Pty) Ltd was then approached by Middelburg Steel and Ferro Alloys to develop a high temperature castable. The required products were successfully developed, produced and supplied to them. Later in 1979, rights were obtained to run the factory on a farm Olifantsfontein, approximately 10 km from Delmas on the Pretoria road. (This factory rights are still valid today)In 1981, even larger expansion to the production facilities was required and Koot decided to erect a new factory in the Delmas industrial area, 8 Robyn Street where the plant is still operational today. Mainly castables and plaster materials were produced and also taphole clay was developed and supplied to a Ferro Alloy mine near Krugersdorp. By now Flintcast Refractories supplied refractory products to Rustenburg Platinum Mines, Middelburg Steel, various metal alloys manufacturers around Krugersdorp and Machadodorp, Dorbyl VDBP and Eskom power stations. More labourers were hired to accommodate increasing production volumes. A contract agreement was secured with Lafarge (Pty) Ltd to manufacture three types of products which they supplied in Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and the Northwest province. In 1996 a Technical Designer was appointed and in 1997 a Metallurgical Engineer came on board. Later during 1997, Mr. J.S. (Vlam) du Preez, Mr. J.S. (Kobus) Bothma and Mrs. L.van Rooyen bought shares and became directors of Flintcast Refractories. Since then the product range was expanded and now includes Conventional Castables, Low Cement Castables, Self-flow Castables, Pumpables, Plasters, Parting agents, Gunnite, Spray materials, Mortars and Ramming.During 2006, the Government's Black Economic Empowerment requirements were addressed within the company and in 2007 the level 6 was achieved. Shares were also sold to black partners in 2008. The current directors are: JS Bothma(Snr); JS Bothma(Jnr); JS du Preez; M Mokoena; W Manamela.During 2007 and 2008 the company implemented ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 successfully. The following clauses of the ISO 9001 standard are excluded:• Outsourcing (4.1),• Validation of processes for production and service provision (7.5.2)• Customer Property (7.5.4)Flincast Refractories (Pty) Ltd plans to obtain ISO 9001 certification in 2012.