TUBE NEWS TN August 2018 | Page 8

Unattended Sawing and Sorting Raises Steel Stockholder’s Productivity To increase production throughput, steel stockholder Schmolz + Bickenbach Stahlcenter in Wil, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, has invested in a KASTOtec FC 4 automatic bandsawing centre. It replaced two obsolete saws that could no longer cope with the continuously increasing demand for cut parts. Thomas Plüss, communications officer at Schmobi Called Schmobi for short and employing explained, “Our orders include large batches of more about 100 staff, the steel centre is a leading than 10,000 as well as single items. supplier of material and fabrications to the manufacturing and construction sectors in “The demand on our saws is enormous. They are used Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It operates an extensive storage system with modern high-bay continually throughout the day and some even run throughout the night. warehouses holding 20,000 tonnes of bright steel, mild and stainless steel and tube, tool “We therefore need machines that process workpieces steel, cast iron and some aluminium. In excess of different diameters quickly, cleanly and of 10,000 parts a day are cut on more than 30 economic