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Export Week
Export Week deals with the paperwork, crating, and freight details that surface once the machine is ready to move.
How Export Week works in a live machine-tool schedule
Export Week covers the machine moving stage once a sale is ready to leave Crown Mines.
Export Week starts once a sold machine must leave Crown Mines for a buyer outside South Africa. The brief centres on the machine dimensions, loose accessories, lifting points and destination port or border post. Crating timber, moisture protection, paperwork and carrier booking all depend on those details being correct from the start.
Photographs taken before packing matter as much as the crate itself. Include the machine on its base, the control panel, any steadies or chucks, and the serial plate if visible. That record helps when parts are listed for customs papers and when the buyer checks contents after unloading.
Crating and paperwork stage
Export Week covers the handover from workshop position to outbound freight. It usually includes a packing list, crate or skid arrangements, and checks on loose tooling that must travel with the machine. For lathes, boring equipment and valve grinding units, the small extras often need their own marked box inside the load.
Check the machine again before it is wrapped, bolted down or collected. Note any separate motors, guards, chucks, pumps and manuals so nothing is left behind in Crown Mines. Mention the machine make and the work you plan to run when asking about lathes, boring or valve grinding equipment.
- Crate plan matched to machine size
- Pre-shipping photos of machine and parts
- Freight details recorded with the order
Johannesburg export handling points
Loads moving from Crown Mines need room for lifting, truck access and safe strapping before departure. OR Tambo airfreight, seafreight routes and road carriers each call for different packing choices and document sets. Export Week is where those practical differences are dealt with before the machine leaves Johannesburg.
Rust protection changes with the route and destination. A machine heading to a coastal port needs better wrapping and corrosion control than one travelling inland by road. Power outages can also affect test runs and packing schedules, so final checks are usually tied to available workshop power.
Operated by Astros Marketing (Pty) Ltd from 2 Makro Place, Sunnyrock 1401.
Buyer details needed before dispatch
Use Export Week for orders that need export prep, paperwork checks and practical crating arrangements.
Have the consignee name, delivery point and preferred freight method ready when export preparation starts. It also helps to list any tooling, tailstocks, faceplates or manuals that must travel with the machine. Clear buyer information reduces mistakes on packing lists and customs documents.
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