Starting from humble beginnings in 2006, we have grown through many milestones in our sixteen years of operation.
Today we are the top player within South Africa as well as the African continent.
Gabion Baskets specialises in the manufacturing of quality Gabion products, equipment and services that is crucially important to the Civil Engineering, Mining, Architectural and Building industries. Over the years we have expanded into the Exterior and Interior space design fields, servicing the commercial and residential markets.
This was for a project at Eco Park Panfluit entrance Centurion.
Take a look at photos of the Riverbank Lodge problem before Gabion Baskets assisted with a project design proposal and cost solution.
We’ve just completed a great looking gabion revetment wall in Pretoria for Steinmuller who do all the steel pipework for Eskom’s power plants to be re-commissioned in Mpumulanga soon.
In April 2007, we were appointed by Steffanutti Bressan in Kempton Park as the supplier for the gabions and geotextiles for the site near Steelpoort in Limpopo for the client Asa Metals (Pty) Ltd.
The gabion walls along the road near Sabie in Mpumalanga are now almost complete, there are four walls in total with various lengths.
Because trucks often crash into the wall of Gothic Construction’s head office site located on the corner of William Nicol and Kingfisher, they decided to replace the brick wall with an architectural gabion wall.
We were approached to assist in the design of water attenuation structures for a river course in a new golf estate to be built near Alma in the Limpopo province.
We supplied the first gabions and mattresses to a site near Delmas in Mpumalanga recently for a series of gabion weirs to be built along a river diversion channel.
Themba Kokela from Bokosi Ditshigema contacted us to assist with the installation of a skin revetment for three ponds at the new taxi rank in Soshanguve.
There’s a river flowing at the back of River Lodge Complex and due to the flow there were some major concerns with regard to erosion close to the units located at the back of the complex.
The suburb of Walmer and surrounding areas in Port Elizabeth is plagued by severe flooding when it rains.
Recently we were invited to assist the CSIR on their facilities, located in Paardefontein, Pretoria North, with the repair of gabion structures used as protection for bomb shelters.
The North End Lake in Port Elizabeth was in desperate need for rehabilitation due to extreme levels of water pollution.
We have specialist installers to provide you with pricing for gabion installations.
Full on-site practical training is necessary to make the installation work easier for the labor installing and people monitoring the works.
We make animations to make the installation guidance more easy to understand.
Our designs are created with the full knowledge of our product range and the experience gained over years of gabion projects throughout Southern Africa.
We have always been asked the question of how long does a gabion basket last, it’s an interesting question and an important one as we don’t want to be making promises that are not based on facts.
We can come to your site and provide assistance regarding gabion structure design and installation support.
We make small gabion and River mattress models to show the product up close and for installation guidance and use.
We provide technical knowledge including Powerpoint presentations on our product, design, specifications and installations, as an advisory service to update your technical team at your office.
Manufactured in South Africa, offering Class-A Galvanised or with Grey PVC coating Hexagonal woven mesh baskets and mattresses, Square Weldmesh baskets are also available.
Protect the integrity of your gabion basket installation with high-quality geotextiles between your gabion structures and the soil.
Sandbags are an ideal solution when it comes to soil erosion protection, and diverting floodwaters away from sensitive installations or homes.
These blankets promote vegetation growth when combined with your gabion structure, and help retain the important topsoil for vegetation growth.
Heavy rocks need heavy transport. Our Barrows were specially designed to transport our quality products.
Hexagonal woven mesh is the perfect product for rockfall mesh netting and to cover large areas of river mattresses quickly.
Fully made up Gabion baskets or mesh rolls/panels are offered for more flexible use on building or civil engineering construction sites.
Also referred to as a sack gabion, cylindrical shaped, filled to 75% capacity with rock, used in restricted areas or to act as foundation for gabion river structures.
Only need a small retaining wall up to 1.5m height? Why not use local rock with our small 300 x 300mm cross-section Gab-Bloc Gabion?
The smaller Garden Gabion can be used at home for terracing and smaller Gabion retaining walls, or even internal feature/ decorative walls, or raised garden beds as illustrated below.
We offer a custom designed, suited to feature aesthetically pleasing Gabion Planter feature which is sure to turn heads and get lots of interest.
These units are suitable for filling with earth, sand, gravel, crushed rock and other granular materials.
The smaller Garden Gabion can be used at home for terracing and smaller Gabion retaining walls, or even internal feature/ decorative walls, or raised garden beds as illustrated below.
We supply non weathered rock for gabion and rip rap protection and feature structures, many colors are available, size 100-250mm.
We supply a tool kit that makes the installation process much easier and neater.
