Finishing - September-October 2021

36 SHOT BLASTING
Taking a shot
The beginning of the B+S
Metallbearbeitung GmbH dates back to
the year 1959. The company, founded
by Herbert Bickel, specialized early on in
jobshop services in the field of mechanical
surface treatment, such as mass finishing. In
1991 Mustafa Sahin became an employee of
the B+S Metallbearbeitung GmbH located in
Murr in Southern Germany. Since 2004 he
held a 50 % share in the company. When the
founder decided to withdraw from the
business in 2007 for health reasons, Mustafa
Sahin became the general manager. He
recognized quickly that in order to remain
competitive and run the business successfully
in the future, the outdated equipment had to
be replaced with modern machinery. In
addition, to strengthen the company’s
competitive position in the market he decided
to expand the service portfolio with additional
finishing operations. An important aspect of
this expansion strategy was to process the
customer’s work pieces safely and consistently
and to use high-quality equipment that could
be operated round-the-clock.
The best equipment technology
for each mass finishing
application
The general manager remembers: “In a first
step I talked with different suppliers of mass
finishing equipment. Among them was also a
Rösler employee. I was impressed by the
broad Rösler equipment range and the
excellent engineering of the high-performance
machines, which can be utilized for all kinds
of finishing tasks. Another important
consideration was that Rösler produces all its
mass finishing consumables in-house. This
means that equipment, media and compound
can be perfectly adapted to our requirements
and that I can resort anytime to the
experience and knowhow of the Rösler test
lab. Above all, the relationship with the
colleagues from Rösler is excellent.” In 2008
Mustafa Sahin decided to purchase a linear,
continuous flow mass finishing vibrator, model
R 425/6600 DA, that was technically adapted
Finishing - September/October 2021