Interest in automation growing
January 1st 2011 The UK subsidiary of German storage
system and sawing machine
manufacturer, KASTO, exhibited for
the first time at IMHX last year.MD
Ernst Wagner, was impressed by the
number and quality of enquiries from
new companies and existing users, as
well as from pre-existing customers
that they have not been in contact
with for several years.
"In Germany the market is picking
up strongly and the UK is starting to
follow suit," Mr Wagner said. "Interest
in automation is being shown right
across industry, from stockholders to
manufacturers looking to feed
material to their machine tools more
efficiently."
KASTO's storage products, which
are available with varying degrees of
automation right up to very
sophisticated, high-end systems, are
designed for either sheet and plate or
long stock such as bar and tube. Some
stores, however, are capable of
accommodating both types of raw
material as well as pallets and boxes.
The main interest this year was in
sheet storage, especially from the
aluminium sector.
One of the drivers behind
increased use of automated handling
is current HSE guidance on
maximum weights men and women
should be allowed to lift in the
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