Company Profile

The previously owned Anglo American Company, Ceracast was established in the Northern Cape Province town of Postmasburg in 1984.It was one of the first companies to offer investment casting to South African mining  industry and has captured a major portion of the mining market by offering high integrity castings, ready for use, or with a near net finish  in conjunction with machining to exact dimensional tolerances and metallurgical specifications.

The bulk of  Ceracast’s business has come from the local mining sector, to which it supplies hundreds of thousands of consumables every year – from coal borers and Drill Bits to jackhammer components and conveyor belt scrapers. Ceracast has the unique ability to adjust the metallurgy and design and enhance the physical properties with state of the art heat treatment, to customers’ specifications. 

Gerhard Claassens
Managing Director
G CLAASSENS
I matriculated in 1987 at the Technical High School in Kimberley. 2011,  B-Com degree at Unisa.  My first job was at Ceracast doing the Tool and Die making then went on to production development, then to Foundry Manager and finally to Operations Director.  I am the Managing Director at present.