Eleven years on the same handshake.
Distribucon has been family-run since 2015 — same office in Potchefstroom, same phones that get answered before the second ring. We trade in the iron that builds South Africa.
Started in a back office in Potchefstroom with a Hino and a phone book.
Hannes de Beer was running a small civils outfit when his contractor mates kept asking the same question: where do you find a decent excavator that hasn't been thrashed on a coal stockpile? In 2015 he started Distribucon to answer it — sourcing one machine at a time, vetting each unit before it went on the books.
Eleven years later the model hasn't changed. The team is bigger, the phone book is now a 50-name database, but every machine on the books is still walked over by someone whose surname is on the door.
Eleven years of moving heavy iron.
Units transacted
From single-machine sales to multi-unit fleet disposals across mining and civils.
Lifetime turnover
Equipment moved through the floor since founding — verifiable on request.
Repeat-buyer rate
Mines and contractors who've bought more than one machine from us.
From one machine to a national floor.
Hannes sells his first vetted excavator to a Mpumalanga contractor. Office: a spare bedroom in Potchefstroom.
Move into Pavey St 5, Baillie Park. The team grows beyond a one-man show.
Full fleet-disposal service for retiring contractors. Inspection team formalised.
5 live listings, 50+ buyer database, machines moving from Cape Town to Polokwane. Same family, same phones.
Every listing earns its place on the floor.
Before a machine is photographed, our inspector spends an hour with it. The findings go into a written condition report — and into the price.
- Hour-meter photographed and verified against service file
- Walk-around with wear-point photography (tracks, undercarriage, cab)
- Engine cold-start, hydraulic temperature & fluid checks
- Service-history reconciliation with OEM dealer records where available
- Honest condition grade — A through D — published on every listing
“We sell to mines, civils contractors and other dealers. They don't want pastels and AI hero illustrations. They want to know the machine starts, the meter is honest, and the price reflects the truth.”