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A story of success – the HBM 540A ALUMINIUM in 2016 in Dusseldorf, Halle 9, stand G20. With the HBM540A Behringer presents a fully enclosed, flexible high-performance bandsawing machine. changeover. And an additional benefit for all those needing to saw an increasing amount of square or sectional material: Based on its only recently fully re-engineered automatic HBM440A, Behringer is now presenting an addition to this high-performance machine series. The model addresses the most stringent requirements in terms of its appealing modern design and also of its superbly engineered functional characteristics. The band saw is ideally suited for the economical and precision cutting of a wide ranging variety of solid materials, pipes or profiles made of metal. In a cutting range of 540 mm in round material and 630 x 540 for squares, the HBM540A saws effortlessly and at high speed and can be used with either bimetal or carbide saw blades. The modular structure of the machine permits considerably simpler implementation of a saw blade incline up to 4° for the manufacturer. The machine designers attached particular importance to reducing not only cutting times but also cycle times. The result of these and other improvements are higher quality cutting results in a substantially shorter time. The feed gripper ensures trouble-free transportation of the material to be cut, even when working with uneven stock, bundled material or heavy forgings, as the fixed gripper jaw is also moved by the material on the return stroke of the feed carriage. The material is always ideally clamped, as the clamping jaws are able to move in accordance with the material width. A standard feed gripper length of 500 mm is provided, although this can be optionally extended to 1500 and 3000 mm. The consistently modular structure of the HBM540A guarantees a permanently high standard of quality in all the components as the sawing unit, material clamping unit and feed unit are preassembled separately as part of a flow assembly sequence. The feed gripper can be moved close up to the saw blade, allowing cut off lengths to be reduced by around 50 per cent. The gripper is mounted on linear guides and positioned by means of a An interesting feature of this machine, for example, is the facility to tilt the saw frame towards the operator, which considerably simplifies saw blade TN November 2016 16