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