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INSPIRED FOR TUBE Job Shop
plex services in the filed of steel product
processing, with special reference
to tube transformation” explains Marcello
Zanini, who runs the company together
with his brother Diego. “We supply
semi-finished tubes to any sector
and our activities also include welding
or bending of tubes as well as the manufacture
of drawn tubes, round, square
or rectangular welded tubes with burrs
on the two sides. The services offered also
feature internal and external washing, customised
drilling and processing of round,
oval or square tubes or simply the cuttingto-length
of tubes and bars”.
90% production within 150 mm diameter
The equipment installed at MDL facilities includes
six ADIGE automatic sawing machines,
but above all it is the laser tube cutting technology
that characterises the activity. The first
laser tube installed over more than three years
was associated with the innovative LT 722 ADI-
GE system in 2008.
“Both in terms of plant type and ease of programming
I can state that ADIGE represents
the state of the art from a technological point
of view” says Marcello Zanini. “In our first experience
with laser tube we privileged the cut
potential in terms of maximum processable
dimensions up to a diameter of 250 mm. On
the other hand, with ADIGE’s LT 722 we process
up to a maximum of 150 mm; a range which
covers approximately 90% of our production.
“In hindsight”, the initial choice of large diameters
has been more restrictive than proactive.
It is true that where large workpieces are cut,
the small ones can be processed as well, but
from the point of view of system performances,
by nature they are not comparable. Certainly,
today, with two systems available and a third
one coming up, equipped with fibre laser to
cut highly reflecting materials, we are in a position
to cover a very large portion of market
demands”.
“Perhaps we have made the right choice to invert
investments considering that the majority
of the work regards the medium-small tube;
but that’s ok. The in-field experience has allowed
us to focus on what we really needed
and to correct the course” explains again Zanini.
“In fact, by purchasing the ADIGE system we
have privileged other aspects that we knew
were of fundamental importance, such as the
programming ease which, in the majority of
cases, means the possibility of carrying out
complex cuts as well. The standard database
of the LT 722 cutting parameters is extremely
complete and articulated to the point that
in the vast majority of cases we can immediately
carry out an optimum cut”.
A “tutor” by your side
Due to its nature, MDL addresses various sectors:
automobile, water-sanitary, heating, furniture,
components and drapes. The company
is a job shop and as such it spans the most
different of fields although, in recent years the
manufacture of structures for solar panel systems
and couches for beauty shops and centres
has been taking on a leading role.
“Following the crisis of the last two years, we
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