It has purchased a Yamazaki Mazak 3D Fabri Gear 400 tube laser cutting machine, the first machine of its kind to be sold into the UK.
The 3D Fabri Gear 400 is the second Mazak laser cutting machine bought by the company, offering the capacity to cut regular and irregular 3D structured sections, including H, I and L beams, as well as square and round pipes and tubes up to 8,000 mm in length and 406 mm in diameter. Crucially, the new purchase has already helped speed up production times by 30%.
Managing director Jon Day comments: “Purchasing the Fabri Gear 400 was the next logical step for the business, and we are delighted to be the first company in the UK to offer such a high level of precision laser cutting. Our first Mazak, a Fabri Gear 300 laser cutting machine, had served us very well, but we were increasingly finding that the market was demanding the capability to machine larger, more complex work, along with bevelling and tapping, which is quite a specialist area to be operating in. The increased capacity and speed of the Fabri Gear 400 has allowed us to meet the complex level of machining our customers were looking for.”
Supplying customers in the automotive, construction, defence and offshore industries for over 35 years, the 30-employee firm provides cutting of steel, stainless steel and aluminium, as well as the delivery of tubular, structural sections, beams, pipes and both flat and bent metal components up to 790 kg to customers throughout the UK.
