Stainless Steel Stockholder Boosts
Productivity With Kasto Bandsaw
Singapore-based Sin Ghee Huat is a prominent stainless steel
stockholder with a portfolio of more than 4,000 products that it
supplies to customers throughout Asia, Oceania, China and the
Middle East. The requirement to cut material has increased
significantly over the years in line with the growth in orders
and the sawing machinery was not really able to cope with the
higher volumes. Cutting times were too long and the sawing
function gradually became a bottleneck.
The point came in 2016 when Sin Ghee Huat’s
management decided to invest to extend its
bandsawing capacity. The German sawing
machine manufacturer Kasto was the chosen
supplier, as it also makes storage systems for
industrial materials and had delivered a Unibloc
stacking cradle a few years previously to the
Singapore facility. It was an exercise that the
stockholder’s operations manager Shawn Lim
described as very positive. Despite this, we process most orders at our Singapore
headquarters.
He explained, “While we are now one of the pioneers
in our sector, our roots actually lie in the scrap metal
trade. Back in the 1980s our management at the time
decided to specialise in stainless steel, recognising
the enormous potential of the market. Since then, we
have grown dynamically and now have a number of
subsidiaries including in the Chinese city of Suzhou. At the outset, he was concerned that a manufacturer
from Germany would not be able to provide the level
of service in Asia that the stockholder expects from
its suppliers, but were reassured by the opening of a
Kasto branch in Singapore at about the time as the
storage system was delivered. So he had no hesitation
in ordering a KASTOwin A 4.6 automatic bandsaw
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“Before material is delivered to customers, several
operations including sawing to length are frequently
completed, a task that demands considerable effort
because most stainless steels are difficult to cut.
It is therefore vital for us to have powerful sawing
machines that can ensure short cutting times and
high productivity.”