Metalian
Car in Cape Town

Purpose built custom trailers for use off road, 4 x 4 and holiday camping trips.

To continuously improve the value to our customers, suppliers and staff through innovation and good management. Metalian is a small run production sheetmetal factory based in Kuils River, Cape Town, South Africa. Owner managed by Heinz Modricky a South African who has diverse skills and knowledge in plastic, wood and steel processing. Find out why Metalian is South Africa’s fastest growing off road trailer & aluminium canopy manufacturing business. We would rather listen to our customers and find out what they want than give them limited or no room for personalised customisations. We have 3 different base models to chose from which can be customised. We personally hand craft each trailer ourselves at our factory in Cape Town. Find out about our unique triple seal technology which wont leave your kit in the dust. Our Metalian Canopies are custom designed to meet your vehicle specification to fit. We personally custom manufacture canopies ourselves at our factory in Cape Town. Metalian prides its self as being one of the leaders of design and innovation in the industry. We listen to what our customers want and do our utmost to make it possible. We feel that the names Mini, Midi and Maxi have worked well for distinguishing the three models during the establishment phase of our brand, but these names are also limiting in introducing new models, particularly those smaller than the Mini. Except that both the Mini and Midi will be known as Midi’s as they have the identical platform size. Most of our followers will view the Parthian as just a rework or facelift of the Midi, but the Parthian has numerous small changes that make a big difference. The re-design was necessary because at the time of designing the Midi, the same design details as the Maxi were used. This proved most challenging and a compromise of 50 mm was made in the length, taking the box length to 1550 mm. In practice however, the balance was not as good as it could be. This was also partly due to maintaining other design criteria used on the Maxi. One of which was the decision to keep the drawbar assembly the same as the Maxi in order to maintain compatibility between models. A new Mini/Midi drawbar was designed for the 11 th trailer upwards in each model. With hindsight this was a blessing in disguise, because it forced us to re-look at the design from an entirely new perspective. It was this that got us thinking of better solutions all round. This also provides access for easier reticulation, cleaning and service. Rebates above the side cupboards to allow for wider table or solar panels.