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Press brake brings metalworking back in-house
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LVD (UK) product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
May 24, 2002
Purchase of a new pressbrake at Metalworking 2002 enabled a staircase manufacturer to bring in-house previously subcontracted sheetmetal and plateworking.
The UK's market leader in the design, manufacture and installation, of staircases is on an expansionist trail and bringing in-house previous subcontract sheetmetal and plateworking which led to the purchase of an LVD PPEB 8EF 135/30 multi-axis press brake from LVD (UK) of Marlow during the Metalworking 2002 exhibition in Birmingham.
Comments director of St Ives based Crescent of Cambridge, Jim Patterson: "We are extremely busy supplying products as diverse as loft ladders, fire escapes and metal staircases to customers from the do-it-yourselfer, and small builder to multi-national contractors.
We can have up to 300 jobs on the go at the same time so moving to Just-in-Time production will ease our workflow, storage and free-up assembly areas." Following an in-depth study of the press brakes available in the UK, Jim Patterson and the managing director Richard Butler, took the opportunity of the exhibition to finally compare equipment and place the order.
The three metre bed LVD PPEB will sit alongside a new plasma profiling machine as part of a GBP 250,000 investment and provide the capability to accommodate new staircase designs that are currently being planned.
It will be bending Durbar, the diamond shaped plate as well as standard plate up to 5mm thick by 1500mm long with the machine tooling set to accommodate both material types and therefore reduce set up times.
Batch quantities tend to be between six to over 400 comprising stair treads, brackets and, hand rails for straight, spiral and helical-type staircases.
Crescent of Cambridge employs 55 people, has a turnover of GBP 4 million and will now take in work from sister divisions of its parent company SWP PLC.
To help cater for a wide variety of different component types, the PPEB 8EF 135/30 was specified with LVD's Easy Form Laser automatic angle measuring system and Lazer Safe guarding.
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