The people behind Custom Stainless
Every Custom Stainless unit is designed by Wimpie Visser in Port Elizabeth and built by Eddie in our workshop in Primrose, Germiston, Johannesburg. Wimpie has been in construction for more than 50 years. Eddie is a qualified boilermaker and has been in steel since 1997.
Who designs it
Wimpie Visser does the designs for Custom Stainless, and he draws every one by hand in Port Elizabeth. He started in construction when he was 16, and he's been at it for more than 50 years.
He never planned on stainless steel. He needed a custom sink for a job and nobody could supply one. Everyone he asked wanted a minimum order of 20, or flat out didn't want to build it.
So he made his own, out of desperation, because the job had to get done. That sink is how he got into stainless.
He knows what it's like to need one sink and be told to order 20. That's why we don't have a minimum order.
Who builds it
Eddie builds every Custom Stainless unit in our workshop in Primrose, Germiston, Johannesburg. He's a qualified boilermaker who trade tested through an AECI apprenticeship, and he has been in steel since 1997.
He has taught the trade too. For years he was a welding instructor and registered assessor. He trained and coded welders in MIG, TIG, arc and aluminium for Ford Motor Company's approved panel shops across Gauteng, the Free State and the Western Cape, and for Jaguar Land Rover's.
He also worked as a welding consultant for Böhler Uddeholm. And he project managed the installation of the chassis plant at Ford Silverton for the new Ranger, which included planning work with the equipment builders in Detroit.
Over the years he has worked on pressure vessels, pipelines, plant erection and precision boilermaking, in everything from 1.6 mm sheet metal up to heavy plate. The man who trained the panel shops is the man building your table.
Workshop
Primrose, Germiston, Johannesburg
Design office
Port Elizabeth
Delivery
We arrange delivery anywhere in South Africa
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