Demolition

DARKLING INDUSTRIAL METALS in association with DARKLING DEMOLITION, takes part in the destruction and recycling of virtually anything and is fully equipped to break up and remove trains & airplanes, redundant earthmoving machinery & structures up to 90 metres high as well as bridges & furnaces, draglines & tanks, grain silos & ventilation shafts and even ships, container cranes & tugboats.

Our sophisticated equipment and high availability of machines enables us to destroy any size aircraft in a matter of hours with removal of the resultant scrap and clean-up of site in a few days. Our shredding facilities enable us to yield the purest form of the duralium recovered which in turn allows us to be incredibly competitive on our rebate pricing. To date we have destroyed a total of 39 aircraft with the largest being a Boeing 747-100 and the most classic being a Hercules C130.

Darkling Demolition has successfully completed a large number and wide variety of medium and large demolitions of a complex nature ranging from furnaces to stoker plants, industrial warehouses and water towers, dams, crane structures, buildings and so on. In one specific demolition we mechanically dropped a 36 metre high refractory lined stack, that was calculated to weigh 480 tons, so accurately it fell just 16 centimetres short of the marker that had been placed on the impact bedding. We specialize in mechanical demolition but have completed projects that have required the use of explosion and implosion techniques as well. Darkling Demolition has proven itself to be safety concious, reliable, efficient and fast, and is therefore ranked as one of the best in South Africa. All of the above enables us to confidently say “we are not the biggest, but are ruthlessly efficient at what we do and proud of it!”

In 2013 alone, Dark metals destroyed in excess of 1800 machines, most of which were earthmoving machines of which the largest was a Caterpillar 793 C dump truck. Last year also comprised of tanks, armoured personnel carriers, train engines, train carriages, draglines, harbour cranes, underground continuous miners, large copper coiled transformers, redundant trucks and even ball mills. In years gone by, the largest piece of machinery that we have destroyed was a 184 meter long, 4800 ton shipping vessel and second to that was a 780 ton Komatsu PC 8000 face shovel which took us little over two weeks to cut up and completely remove with absolutely no injuries occurring. All of the above allows us to confidently say “we are the best, and there is no entity out there that is more seasoned, faster or more efficient than us, and that is a fact!”