Waterjet Powered by Mitsubishi Electric offers advanced programming capabilities that are an ideal complement to saw cutting and routing, and they enable straight-line cutting for countertops with the added flexibility of radius, reports the manufacturer. Users can preserve accuracy, while achieving more complicated, intricate countertop inlay designs.
The multiple-wire saw range from Pellegrini Meccanica now includes a new model, the Polywire 32. Designed for fast and flexible production, the Polywire 32 allows an operator to cut 32 slabs at a time. According to Pellegrini, this allows the production of three granite gangsaws with a single machine. The block size can be up to 11 1/2 feet long (350 cm) x 6 1/2 feet high (210 cm).
The Park Industries Titan CNC stoneworking center has been engineered as a “high-performance productivity breakthrough in CNC technology,” the company reports. Backed by more than 20 years of CNC experience, the Park Titan was designed for optimal precision as well as premium reliability, durability and support.
As usual, the CarraraMarmotec trade fair included some interesting stone industry analyses when it took place in Carrara, Italy, a couple of months ago. Among them, the show’s organizer, Internazionale Marmi e Macchine, presented the “Stone Sector,” an annual statistical handbook on world production, consumption and trade of natural stone.
Not too long ago, I received an e-mail from a public relations firm representing Toyota, saying that they wanted to lend Stone World one of their Toyota Tundra trucks for review. As a quasi-construction magazine, Stone World has been placed on many periodical lists used by public relations firms, and as such, we get a lot of misdirected e-mail from “mainstream” construction-related companies. Since I couldn’t discern a relationship between Toyota trucks and the stone industry, I chalked this e-mail up to Stone World’s presence on some sort of list, hit the “delete” button, and went on with my day.
In response to the increased demand for more edge profiles, Northwood Machine Manufacturing Co. has developed an innovative solution for stone fabricators. The Smart Tool System (STS) was unveiled at the Coverings show in Chicago, IL. STS is a modular, automatic tool carousel and software program that provides a scalable, autonomous system for the storage and delivery of tools to a machine tool spindle on a Northwood CNC machine tool or router.
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