Why Skyriders?

Skyriders (Pty) Ltd was established in 1988 and is the leader in the South African rope access industry, providing cost- and time-saving solutions to clients for work in difficult to reach, high-up locations. We pride ourselves in offering solutions at height to a wide range of problems that require “out of the box” thinking and innovation.

Skyriders is one of the oldest names in the South African rope access industry having being started in the late 80′s as a high-rise window cleaning operation. During the 90′s Rope Access emerged in Southern Africa as a recognized form of industrial access, the management of Skyriders being very much involved in this development. A major step was the involvement of SABS and the eventual development of 3 separate standards that now add further definition to our industry.

Towards the end of the 90′s Skyriders was predominantly involved in industrial work and was gaining increasing exposure to the power generation industry. By the turn of the century we had a number of contracts at various Eskom sites. Our scope of work was typically inspection related and was mainly focused on ultrasonic wall thickness testing of boiler tubes.

During the next few years we expanded our reputation within the power generation industry becoming the preferred rope access supplier on all Eskom sites. We also started supplying our service to Indonesian plants where there is a relatively strong South African presence. Typical work had by now branched out from boiler related projects to include inspection, maintenance and repairs of many different inaccessible structures (ducting, cooling towers, smoke stacks, coal silo’s etc.).

We offer work at height solutions to local and international clients in the power generation, petrochemical, industrial and construction sectors. We offer alternative access solutions to the traditional scaffolding methods.  When the cost of access is deemed disproportionate to the work that needs to be done – that’s when Skyriders comes into its own.