Steel Fabrication Businesses for sale in South Africa

Separate general fabrication from structural, pressure, lifting and site-installation work. Verify applicable design responsibilities, competent persons, welding qualifications, inspections, certificates and customer standards for each revenue stream and outstanding contract.

Sample completed jobs and trace drawings, material certificates, welding procedures, welder qualifications, consumables, dimensional checks and non-destructive testing. Investigate concessions, failed welds, repairs and missing records that could invalidate customer acceptance.

Review welding fume, noise, hazardous chemicals, machine guarding, cranes, forklifts and manual handling. Check exposure assessments, training, medical surveillance, lifting-machine tests, incidents and corrective actions against actual daily workshop conditions.

Count stock by grade, size, heat number, condition and ownership. Reconcile certificates, purchases, issues, offcuts and scrap sales to jobs, then isolate unidentified, corroded, customer-owned or specification-restricted material before valuation.

Inspect scope, drawings, programme, price escalation, variations, penalties, warranties and retention release conditions. Confirm certified progress, disputed work and completion costs, including site labour, transport, cranes, coatings and remedial work.

Rebuild job margins using actual steel, consumables, labour, machine time, subcontracting, coatings, transport, installation, scrap credits and rework. Compare estimated and final costs, then normalise unusual steel prices and workshop utilisation.