DC Auto-Motion is the authorised distributor of Japanese linear and motion control mechanical components manufacturer THK in South Africa as well as the rest of Africa. It also offers THK’s premium Linear Motion (LM) guides, recognised as the world’s most durable, accurate and rigid linear product system.
THK officially announced and appointed DC Auto-Motion as official THK distributor on their global website during May.
THK manufactures and supplies LM guides, linear bushings, precision/rolled ball screws, precision ball splines, cross roller rings, cross roller guides, LM actuators, LM stroke, slide rails, slide packs and much more. DC Auto-Motion started supplying THK LM guide products to the automotive market in September 2013.
Established in April 2010, the company has a warehousing facility of 365 m2 at Unit 24, Route 24, Fleming road, Meadowdale, in Germiston. The facility also hosts in-house cutting facilities to cut LM rails, balls screw shafts and LM shafts to customers’ specifications.
All the imported products at DC Auto-Motion, which employs five people, are internationally TUV- and ISO 9001:2008- compliant.
In 2013, THK announced the world’s first and only single- length LM rail system at 7 000 mm without any form of matching or joining of linear guide rails.