ParkerSteel to go fully automated with new Kaltenbach line

Steel stockholder ParkerSteel has placed an order with Kaltenbach, for what is said to be one of the UK’s first fully automated structural steel processing lines.

The installation for ParkerSteel’s Canterbury facility comprises of a KBS 1051 mitre cutting bandsaw with an AS1000 auto-sorter system; a KDXS1015 drilling system; a four-axis contour marking unit; automated hard stamping, and an automatic material crossway and conveyor handling system.

Guy Parker, Managing Director, ParkerSteel, said: “Parkers have always been a progressive company, with continuous investment in the very best and most advanced leading-edge equipment, in order to ensure our cutting services remain firmly at the forefront of steel processing technology”.