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In 1999 Steve Haines linked up with Tom and Gareth Green of Stuga. Now director, Steve explains the company’s journey since then. In 1999, I approached Tom and Gareth Green of Stuga to discuss automated sawing and machining centers. Having experienced this type of automation, there was no competitive product that could make it mainstream for PVCU window and door...
Fyotto specialises in aluminium framed doors, and is often involved in flagship projects. While Fyotto has made the most of both 2D and 3D CAD technology since the early 1990s, today it is all about Elumatec’s EluCad software. The company’s Neil Clasby explains how it is transforming Fyotto’s operation. Fyotto is using an SBZ-122/74 machining centre, which can be used...
By Wayne Hunter, service and operations manager, Emmegi (UK). Anyone picking up a recent copy of Glass Times would be under no illusions that ‘training’ is the buzzword in this industry at the moment Like many other UK industries, we’ve finally woken up to the looming skills shortage in fenestration, and there are some impressive efforts being made to attract...
Cutting full-cycle times to as little as two minutes and 31 seconds, the Ever Theta four-head frame crimping machine has the potential to revolutionise the manufacture of aluminium frames, according to Paul Yeo, sales manager at Promac Group. When you watch the Ever Theta crimper it’s one of those jaws on the floor moments. It delivers so many benefits; working...
By Elumatec’s Neil Parton. In today’s Internet of Things environment, connectivity and integration are deemed key components of a successful strategy but having access to relevant information has always been a business need. It allows us to capitalise on our strengths and drive improvements. Using data to make informed decisions makes sense, but collecting and analysing that data has often...
Neil Parton, Elumatec’s managing director of Elumatec, explains how software can unite automation and bespoke projects. Many people think of manufacturing efficiency and get an image in their heads of Henry Ford’s production line and his insistence that you could have your new Ford in any colour – providing it was black. Ford was onto something: he didn’t build an...
By Ian Latimer, managing director of Emmegi (UK). First there was the Quadra L1, then the L2 and the L0, and now comes the launch of the Emmegi Quadra L3, a top of the range CNC machining centre for machining, cutting and drilling aluminium and light alloys, which has an incredible 20 axes. The L3 pushes beyond the capabilities of...
Getting a PVCU window fabrication company off the ground requires perfect choreography of suppliers and the patience to play the waiting game for everything to fall into place. What if there were companies who worked together in unison to deliver exactly what you need, with unparalleled service and round the clock support? Liniar explains how it is entirely possible to...
Software underpins efficient production but often comes with a tie-in to a specific system. That’s unless your machinery manufacturer has created its own platform. There are advantages to scale. FOM joined forces with Graf Synergy back in December 2016 to form the FOM-GS Group – but even before, the aluminium specialist was a heavyweight player in machinery manufacture. This scale...
Glass Times met Andrew Taylor, managing director of Specialist Glass, to find out more about the investment into infrastructure and machinery, and the impact this will have on the company and its customers. Operating from its Huddersfield base, Specialist Glass is a structural glass manufacturer specialising in annealed, laminated and toughened bends, as well as manufacturing and supplying all types...
By Forel. “Everything is based on the quality that a glass company can offer,” Roberto Pastore, owner of Italian glass processing company Vetrodomus, said. “Superior quality allows you to connect with higher-level customers and access higher-level orders. “How do you achieve quality? On the one hand, you rely on the skills and know-how of your company and employees, and on...
Lee Dover, from Houghton International, expresses concerns about how machine downtime can have a drastic impact if a business is not prepared for it. No matter what industry you specialise in, machine downtime can have a major impact on your business; if you’re not prepared, technical errors in your appliances can bring significant costs to your productivity and negatively impact...
By Steve Haines, Stuga. We hear more and more from the national press about the difficulty finding reliable labour, and this has been made worse by the result of the referendum from what we are told. I hear from much of the PVCU window and door fabrication industry that they struggle to get good people and this is creating problems...
By Neil Parton, MD of Elumatec UK. Issues have a habit of expanding to fit the available space. What begins as a minor niggle in a business situation can become a problem that feels insurmountable – and that can happen very quickly. A classic example would be a temporary cash flow problem that becomes entrenched when it’s not handled wisely,...
By Steve Haines, Stuga. The Stuga ZX5 automatic sawing and machining center was created early in 2017 but was originally to be the ZX4-MK7. The ZX4-MK6 was a well-established product, selling and working well but the time had come to upgrade it to incorporate new ideas and new technology. Stuga also wanted to include ideas and suggestions from customers and...
Lower net migration and a higher rate of employment has set wage increases spiralling. Promac discusses on how you can keep a lid on the cost of manufacture. Net migration to the UK from other EU countries has reached a near six-year low; according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the difference between the number of EU citizens entering...
By Emmegi. Voilap Holding is the new name for Cifin – the group that owns Emmegi, and which was established several years ago by the Emmegi founders. It’s a reflection of Voilap, the newest digital business within the group, but it actually now encompasses nine different but complementary brands. Among those in the UK is Emmegi but, from a fabrication...
Embodied energy in building products is under greater scrutiny, delivering environmental benefits and production efficiencies. Joe Hague, managing director of Promac Group, explains. The construction industry is the largest consumer of resources in the UK, swallowing up more than 400 million tonnes of material a year (Davis Langdon) and accounting for 10% of UK carbon emissions (Envest). While the industry...
Promac’s Joe Hague asks if the growing influence and increasing automation introduced by large fabricators mean that the writing is on the wall for small and medium-sized manufacturers. Consolidation goes hand-in-hand with market maturity and the list of acquisitions and mergers in the glass processing and fabrication sector is long. This has done two things: it’s created new and larger...
Matt Hardy, director of Skyglaze explains how the new LMX650 from FOM is redefining possibilities in aluminium fabrication. FOM allows you to manufacture better product by accessing more technical processes – flow and friction drilling, notch cutting, T-milling – and the integration of those processes. That specialism means that ultimately as a manufacturer you can do more and offer your...