Engineered in Cape Town. Deployed across Southern Africa.
Three decades designing, manufacturing and installing centralised lubrication systems for industrial machinery — from conveyor head bearings on the Witwatersrand to ship-loaders in the Port of Cape Town.
Ultra-Flow Engineering Services designs, manufactures and installs centralised lubrication systems for industrial machinery across Southern Africa. Three decades of engineering — built in Cape Town, deployed wherever the work is heavy.
The brief is always the same: keep it running.
Lubrication is the discipline nobody notices until it fails. A skipped grease point on a quarry conveyor, a contaminated reservoir on a port crane, a worn check-valve on a stamping press — all of them end the same way: unplanned downtime, premature wear, replacement bills. Our entire engineering practice is built around making sure that doesn’t happen.
Founded in 1990, Ultra-Flow Engineering Services has spent more than three decades designing centralised lubrication systems for the kind of machinery that does not get to stop. Mining and minerals processing. Cement and quarrying. Marine and port infrastructure. Steel, paper, automotive assembly, food and beverage. Wherever there is a bearing, a chain, a gearbox or a slide that needs metered, scheduled, contamination-controlled lubricant — that’s our work.
By the numbers
- 36 years · Engineering lubrication systems for Southern African industry, since 1990.
- 1,000+ installations · From conveyor head bearings on the Witwatersrand to ship-loaders in the Port of Cape Town.
- 47 engineered SKUs · Pumps, distributors, filters, fittings, hoses and proprietary controllers — across 24 product categories.
- 4 proprietary controllers · A2 Universal, Genie G1, G2 Pulse and Autolube — each designed for a different installation envelope.
- 2 Cape Town branches · Engineering, manufacture and dispatch from Montague Gardens and Parklands.
Engineered in Cape Town, deployed across Southern Africa
Every Ultra-Flow system is specified, assembled and pressure-tested at our Cape Town facility before it leaves for site. We don’t resell — we engineer. Our catalogue is the result of three decades refining what works in heavy industry: pumps and distributors that survive dust, vibration and chemical attack; controllers that don’t fail in 45°C engine bays; fittings rated to pressure cycles that would split off-the-shelf hardware.
The four proprietary controllers form the intelligent core of the range. A2 Universal handles small-to-mid centralised systems with Bluetooth configuration and visual fault indication. Genie G1 is the compact economical workhorse for single-line installations. G2 Pulse brings programmable pulse-output for high-cycle applications. Autolube covers the vehicle and mobile-equipment segment. The optional Roamer cellular module brings the whole system online — pressure, temperature, cycle-count and fault state, visible from anywhere with a SIM signal.
What we engineer for
Mining & minerals. Conveyor head, tail and gravity-take-up bearings. Crushers, mills and screens. Vehicle and rolling-stock central lube on haul trucks and underground loaders.
Cement & quarrying. Rotary kilns, vertical mills, raw and finish mill bearings. Long-line conveyor systems in dusty, high-temperature environments.
Marine & ports. Quay cranes, ship-loaders, dry-dock equipment. Marine-grade fittings and corrosion-resistant distribution networks engineered for salt-laden air.
Manufacturing. Stamping presses, forming machinery, paper machines, food & beverage process lines. NSF-rated lubricants where hygiene certification applies.
How we work
Most installations start with a design submission — a list of lubrication points, machine drawings, duty cycle and environmental envelope. From that we produce a CAD-modelled layout, a bill of materials, a quote within 24 hours, and a delivery commitment. Installation is by our own engineering team or in partnership with the client’s mechanical contractor. Commissioning is non-negotiable — we don’t sign off until every point on the system has been pressure-tested and verified.
The job doesn’t end at commissioning. Predictive maintenance, spare-part stocking, controller firmware updates and Roamer IoT rollouts keep installations performing across their full asset life. A lubrication system is judged not by what it does on day one but by what it still does in year ten — and we engineer to that horizon.
Why specify Ultra-Flow
Three reasons, in order:
- South African content. Designed, manufactured and supported from Cape Town. Spare parts in country, lead times measured in days not weeks, no exchange-rate exposure on warranty work.
- Application-specific design. No off-the-shelf “kit” sales. Each system is engineered against the actual machine — geometry, viscosity, cycle, environment.
- Long-horizon engineering. Material selection, redundancy in the distribution network, sealed control electronics, controller architecture that can be re-tasked as the asset evolves. Twelve-month installations don’t earn referrals; ten-year installations do.
Get in touch
If you have a machine that needs centralised lubrication, the fastest path to a system specification is to submit a design brief with your machine list and any available drawings. You’ll have a system layout and a budget number back within 5 working days. For direct engineering enquiries, sales support or after-sales service, see the contact page.