Industrial Services

HP, UHP Water Jetting & More

Surface preparation and industrial cleaning at pressures up to 40,000 psi.

Water jetting is the cleanest, most controllable way to strip old coatings, remove process fouling and prepare a substrate for re-coating — without the abrasive disposal headache. From routine HP cleaning of structural steel through to UHP stripping of failed tank linings, we have the equipment, the trained operators and the safety systems in place. Where a project needs prep through to finish, our industrial lining and coating and pipeline fabrication teams pick up directly after the jetting crew leaves the workfront.

Related services

The same UHP equipment that strips coatings is used to break up tank residues, which is why most of our water jetting projects flow into robotic sludge cleaning or acid lining refurbishment once the substrate is clean. For confined or high spaces, jetting is delivered alongside our scaffolding and rope-access teams.

Where we work & who we serve

Makhaya Corrosion Control delivers hp, uhp water jetting & more and the full range of industrial services across South Africa — including Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, Free State and the Northern Cape — as well as cross-border into Zambia through our in-country operation, Makhaya Zambia, based on the Copperbelt and serving North-Western, Lusaka, Central and Southern provinces.

Our crews support clients in mining and minerals processing, smelters and refineries, power generation, oil, gas and petrochemical, chemical and fertiliser plants, pulp and paper, water and wastewater, cement and lime, sugar and food processing, steel and heavy manufacturing, and renewable energy — from routine maintenance to full plant shutdowns. See our full industries page or read more about our Zambian operations.

Gallery

HP & UHP water jetting in action

Bank of heat exchanger shells opened for UHP tube cleaning
High-pressure water jet stripping fouling from a vessel manway
Tube sheet after high-pressure water jetting cleaning
Tube bundle cleaning in progress with jetting lances inserted
Internal pipe surface cleaned by UHP water jetting
Close-up of cleaned heat exchanger tube ends
Debris and scale removed during high-pressure jetting

Videos

See our water jetting work in action