Heinrich Muller opens KOTA Manufacturing at Timber Lake

  • Heinrich Muller (left) with his children, Cecilia (middle) and Conrad (right) with some of the machinery in the new KOTA shop.
    Heinrich Muller (left) with his children, Cecilia (middle) and Conrad (right) with some of the machinery in the new KOTA shop.
  • The new KOTA sign along Highway 20 west of Timber Lake
    The new KOTA sign along Highway 20 west of Timber Lake

    KOTA Manufacturing is a new business two and a half miles west of Timber Lake, which is owned and operated by Heinrich Muller.

    KOTA offers welding, machining, and repair work. “I can build things, do aluminum welding- whatever people need,” he said.

    Muller grew up surrounded by welding. He learned how to weld at HTS Middelburg, a Afrikaans medium co-educational technical high school in the Mpumalang…