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SAWS IN ALL SHAPES & SIZES Opticut benefits enhance Turner’s services E W TURNER & Company Ltd, a small pallet and packing case manufacturer in the West Midlands, provide proof of the benefits of a Weinig CNC OptiCut optimising cross-cut saw, which the company had installed a year ago. Packing case and pallet manufacturers perhaps gain the most, because crosscutting is a major part of their production process, but every type of manufacturer — furniture and joinery — can enjoy even more benefits: Increasing production efficiency, speeding up response to the customer, making more savings in waste by optimising, increasing yield and improving profitability, are just some. The more the timber throughput is, the greater the profit achievable. E W Turner was established in 1854 in West Bromwich. The company specialises in the manufacture of bespoke pallets, packing cases and plywood boxes, for export worldwide. Eighty percent of products are bespoke, so modern machining methods became essential to remain competitive and meet the demand for faster deliveries and a growing order book. The company, therefore, invested in the highly reputed Weinig OptiCut optimising cross cut saw, to replace some of the five manual cross cuts. The company have since realised considerable benefits. The managing director of Turners is Nick Clarke. Nick was a footballer in his early days and played centre back for Wolverhampton Wanderers, but injury forced him to retire from football. He then worked in the woodworking industry and steadily gained considerable experience. He was well known in the Midlands due to his football fame and worked as a sales representative for Turners for four years. Later, he set up his own successful company, Mercia Contracts, but after a period of time Turners, who had the advantage of being better know for over a century, made him an attractive offer to join them as Sales Director. The installation of the Weinig OptiCut CNC cross cut saw, S 50, has ensured faster and higher production and replaced three of five manual cross cuts, with spare capacity. Turners still uses the two manual saws but only for a few very special jobs. The OptiCut is safer, easier to use and much less tiring for operators — precluding the need to lift heavy timber. It is faster and easier to change over jobs and is ideal for ‘one off’ production. Turners now meets all its orders without having to work overtime. Turners has their own fleet of lorries for despatching countrywide. David Sandland, Production Manager (right) talking to Dean Grimbley, local Weinig representative. Said Nick Clarke, “We definitely would not have been able to meet the increased number of orders on time, if it wasn’t for the OptiCut. And it has attracted more orders. We have the confidence of knowing that we have the spare capacity to fit in urgent new jobs at any time.” Nick adds, “It’s highly flexible, and is able to cut 250 mm short pieces up to 2 m lengths in singles or packs. Setting time is negligible and eliminates human error. Accuracy is guaranteed to 0.5 mm. It is a powerful saw and can cut 4 x 4 timber, with up to 40% moisture content on home grown timber, like cutting through butter. I can’t fault it. We have had the machine for a year now and never had a problem — it’s so reliable.” Production manager, David Sandland, says, “Since we installed the OptiCut, we are able to product 75 m 3 per week (6 packs per day) and still have spare capacity. We can guarantee a 24 hour turn round, and pallets that would have taken us two hours to produce we can now do in twenty minutes.” E W Turner & Co Ltd Tel 0121 556 1141 Email sales@ewturner.co.uk Michael Weinig (UK) Ltd Tel 01235 557600 Email sales@weinig.co.uk www.weinig.co.uk Page 18 Panel, Wood & Solid Surface June/July 2011
SAWS IN ALL SHAPES & SIZES Striebig celebrates 50 years of the vertical panel saw IN 1961, John F. Kennedy became the President of the USA and the Russian, Yuri Gagarin, was the first person to travel into space. The very same year, Swiss master joiner Ludwig Striebig revolutionised sawing. He registered his patent for a “Device for cutting major structural plates to size or for cutting sections therefrom” — heralding the birth of the vertical panel saw. Striebig, who died in 1995, was a practical craftsman, a brilliant problem solver and a visionary inventor all in one. His revolutionary principle transformed material handling in the workshop and made the work of the woodworker much easier. Thanks to his innovative ideas, the vertical panel saw developed from an original, simple, basic cutting tool to a high precision, automatic sizing and cutting machine. From the middle of the 1950s, the large size chipboard panel took over the European market. This initially meant strenuous work for the operator in order to cut the panels to the required format. Striebig, the master joiner, solved this problem with an astonishingly simple solution — he stood the horizontal panels upright. The cutting device he constructed was a wooden frame that supported a horizontal moveable beam on which he attached a circular hand saw that could be moved vertically and pivoted into a horizontal position. After gaining extensive handson experience with the saw in his workshop in Littau, near Lucerne, Striebig registered the patent in March 1961. Later that year he made and sold his first vertical panel saw, the Model 62. The frame and the beam were by now made of metal and a proper saw unit was built into it. Machines he built in 1961 are still in use today, which provides irrefutable evidence of the legendary durability of the Swiss craftsman’s precision engineering. The high level of demand for a ‘Striebig’ from his Swiss woodworking colleagues convinced Ludwig to give up his joinery business. He concentrated solely on the production of vertical panel saws, established initial contacts with dealers abroad and exhibited his products at the Swiss National Exhibition in Lausanne in 1964. In 1968, Striebig launched the completely new Model 68 series which was to be the basis of the fledgling manufacturing venture’s global success story. The saw was technically light years ahead of the rest of the market, with its 80 mm cutting depth; 300 mm saw blade diameter; integrated extraction system; and a powerful saw motor. The Striebig Evolution is one of the most advanced manual panels saws available. The success story of the Striebig Standard began with Model 68. It was technically light years ahead of the rest of the market, and the current Standard is still the world’s best-selling vertical panel saw. Model 68 was to become what it stood for — the industry standard. Today, with more than 30,000 machines produced, the Standard is still believed to be the world’s best selling vertical panel saw. Half a century on, the vertical panel saw is still the sole focus of all commercial activities at Striebig AG’s ultra-modern factory. Every member of the design and production team concentrates on a series of important questions each working day. What added value can we offer to the market? How can we make panel cutting even more comfortable and efficient? How can we continue to guarantee precision, safety and durability for our customers in the future? Striebig is notable amongst woodworking machinery manufacturers for not continually introducing new models, but refining existing machines to improve their productivity and ease of use. The current product portfolio consists of four machine series catering for all sizing needs. There’s the entry-level Compact, the Standard, the Evolution and the high-tech Control vertical sawing centre. Each is available in nine standard sizes with an extensive selection of options available to improve the saws’ effectiveness still further. Machines can also be built in special sizes and fitted with specialist equipment to suit individual requirements. All Striebig models, which can be wall-mounted or freestanding, cut practically all wood-based sheet materials as well as timber, plaster board, plastics and aluminium panels. They offer impressive dust limit values well below 1 mg/m 3 . Due to their versatility they are used in a wide range of industries from shop fitting to exhibition stand construction, and from car making to aircraft construction. To mark the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the vertical panel saw, Striebig is continuing to concentrate on further extensive detailed enhancements to its product range. Striebig AG’s managing director, Marcel Bruner, said: “Innovation for innovation’s sake is not the way we have achieved our success. We place a great deal of importance on continually deve - loping our saws in order to constantly provide customers with new or improved features.” Because of this product strategy, the company gives its customers an excellent degree of protection for their investment. With new developments and enhancements continually being introduced, in many cases the saws can be retrofitted to upgrade them to the most up-to-date technological standard. Striebig saws are available in the UK from long-time dealer TM Machinery Sales, of Leicester. Sales director, Matt Pearce, said: “After half-a-century, Striebig saws have not lost any of their main advantages. They still offer space-saving, economic sawing with exceptional operating convenience and top precision. “The constantly evolving sawing technology pioneered by Ludwig Striebig back in 1961 will continue to offer these same advantages for many years to come.” TM Machinery Sales Tel 0116 271 7155 Email sales@tmservices.co.uk www.tmpartnership.co.uk Panel, Wood & Solid Surface June/July 2011 Page 19
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