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maintenance-free, large-sized plastic glides in
configured with standard, perforated profiles up
the guideways of the steel structure and are
to a system height of 7m. Different shelf heights
pulled out of the shelves or pushed into the
are possible with 47mm increments. The low-
shelves via the loading traverse, which can be
est possible shelf height of 51mm allows a high
lifted and lowered and is mounted to the steel
packing density, where a large variety of differ-
structure.
ent sheets can be stored on a small footprint.
To allow three different loading heights, i.e.
The KASTO sheet metal storage
different distances between the shelves, the
and retrieval system, UNITOWER
UNITOWER C will have three different contour
C, where sheets, pallets, boxes
control heights.
etc. can be stored
See www.kasto.de
Finnish welding specialist, Kemppi, launched its
new KempArc Synergic product range for robotic
welding. The focus has been placed on fast reac-
tion speed and reliable wire feeding which play a
key role in improving welding automation produc-
tivity. The product range includes a control panel,
three power source options and the small DT 400
wire feeder equipped with the new DURATorque
mechanism with metallic feed rolls.
Kemppi has also developed the FastROOT proc-
ess, a new more productive MIG/MAG method
(short arc-welding process) for welding root
passes.
Its MinarcMig Adapative 180 welding machine
recently won the International Red Dot design
award, beating over 2,000 products from forty-
one countries. The machine now features a new
welding gun, the MMG 20, with improved heat
The steel structure of the UNITOWER C is
resistance.
extremely flexible. Depending upon the situa-
Access www.kemppi.com
tion at the customer’s facility, it can be flexibly
KMT Waterjet introduced its new Streamline
S-V200 high pressure intensifier pump for water-
Left:The
jet cutting machines. With a power rating of 200
sheet metal
HP, and operating pressure of 4,000 bar, it also
storage and
features a patented hard seal endcap design (for
retrieval
a metal-to-metal seal).
system,
The SoftStart feature reduces electric current
UNITOWER
peaks to a minimum while the pump is acceler-
B, as double
ating to full speed – this can provide up to 20%
tower with
lateral cart
energy savings when the pump is switched on.
and lift unit
Access www.kmtgroup.com
at a steel
Kuka Roboter GmbH exhibited its new robotic
distributor
solution for spot welding – the KUKA KR 175 spot
for point-to-point motions. With an integrated
weld controller, the operator no longer has to cope
with two different control environments but can
operate the entire application – motion and weld-
ing process – from the KUKA control panel.
At the exhibition, visitors could experience what
it felt like to cooperate with a robot. A fully syn-
chronised RoboTeam, consisting of a KR-210 (with
a KUKA gripper for picking up a workpiece) and
two KR6 ARC arc welding robots (with the latest
Fronius processing system) worked together on the
same piece. Using manually-guided robot tech-
nology, the operator could inspect the weld seam
while the operation was still in progress.
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