Barkev Engineering CC

General information

Barkev is a well-established 30 year old Durban based company with branches in Cape Town and Johannesburg. We represent a host of manufacturers who specialise in print consumables for the graphics industry, which are imported and distributed throughout South Africa, Southern Africa and Mauritius.

These graphic consumables are mainly for the print and packaging industry and specifically for gravure, flexography, lithography, corrugated, label and silkscreen printing processes. However, Barkev also has products suited to a host of other industries such as textile, non-woven, extrusion, paper mills and plastics operations.

Some of our main Principals include Scapa mounting tapes, Sewdev metal doctor blades, FelxoConcepts plastic doctor blades, Recyl anilox cleaners, Mario Cotta slitting systems, Mozart slitting blades, RK Print Coat proofing systems and Dyne treatment pens to name a few.

To complement our product range we also have an Engineering division based at our head office in Pinetown where we manufacture and sharpen a wide range of products used within and outside the print packaging industry. Barkev Engineering also supply a wide variety of components into the industrial sector amongst whom are in food, sanitary, paper, packaging, plastic, printing, agricultural and automotive sectors with various components unique to their market, successfully for several years. We manufacture Pins, Bushes, Beams, Nuts, Washers and many more, working from drawings and samples from various material such as Mild Steel, Stainless Steel, PVC, Nylon and Brass.

We specialise in Custom Blades in the paper, plastic, printing, packaging and tyre industry and many more with branches in Cape Town and Johannesburg and can thus supply across South Africa.

We have 6 CNC Centre Lathes and 6 CNC Milling Machines and a long list of conventional machinery, namely surface grinders, rotary grinders and knife edge grinders. Our blade grinding capacity is 4.5 meters long.

Barkev Group is a proudly South African company and we are proud of the work that we do, we wouldn’t be as prominent as we are without our awesome team of dedicated and respected people with 29 years of service to the industry.