KASTOwin bandsaws find ready home with steel stockholders at Open House event

The event saw the UK launch of the new KASTOwin bandsaws, introduced to address the price-sensitive general steel stockholding sector. Until now, Kasto has had only limited success in this area, due to its predominantly top-end products being too expensive for the intended applications. That has changed, it appears, as two steel stockholders placed orders for KASTOwins at the show. A further order was received almost as soon as the event opened, with Stephen Capper, managing director of specialist bronze foundry and machine shop Dyn Metals in Acton, London, placing an order for a 330 mm capacity KASTOwin 3.3. In terms of steel stockholder customers, a second, similar machine was sold, as well as a larger 560 mm capacity KASTOwin 5.6. The fourth machine ordered, also a bandsaw but of pivoting design, was a KASTOfunctional unit. An automatic model from the company's workshop range for straight and mitre cutting of stock up to 260 mm diameter. At the end of the open house, Ernst Wagner, managing director in the UK operation, said he was delighted with the results: "To be honest, we never normally sell machines at our Open Houses and don't bother teeing customers up to do so. "These were genuine orders that we were not expecting and from an industry that we have had real trouble penetrating in the past. "Based on visitor reaction to our new product line, I think we will sell around 20 KASTOwin bandsaws during the remainder of this year, in addition to our other models."