FOCUS ON PLASMA CUTTING
IN ITS ELEMENT
( From left ): Armand Cretz , Production Manager and Theo Vermeulen , Production Engineer (( J & B Grijpers ); Bas Sanders van Well , Sales Manager MCS Benelux , Messer Cutting Systems , and Edgar Joustra , Managing Director , J & B Grijpers .
Dutch grab manufacturer , J & B Grijpers , has invested in a new ELEMENT plasma bevel cutting machine for its Utrecht factory in The Netherlands .
“ J & B Grijpers wanted a modern machine with bevel function for weld seam preparation . The goal was to purchase a modern plasma bevel machine with Industry-4.0 functionality .”
Third-generation Dutch family business , J & B Grijpers , develops , produces and sells wire rope and hydraulic grabs , adapted to bulk material handling . True to the company motto " J & B Grijpers - Grabs everything you want !", the globally active production company has " grabbed " a complete solution from Messer Cutting Systems and is saving a lot of time with its first ELEMENT plasma bevel cutting machine in the Benelux region .
To guarantee its customers a continued high standard in its wide range of standard grabs , J & B Grijpers is investing heavily in its production facilities at Utrecht ( The Netherlands ).
" We wanted to bring our machinery back up to the state of the art ," explained Armand Cretz , Production Manager , J & B Grijpers . " For the grabs , we cut the components ourselves . Our existing plasma machine could only cut
The ELEMENT machine with Bevel-S plasma bevel unit and ALFA oxyfuel torch at J & B Grijpers .
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