Clearview Midlands October 2013 - Issue 143 | Page 62

MACHINERY

AUTOMATIC SAWING AND MACHINING
In December 1999, Stuga sold six Flowline
automatic sawing and machining centres
following demonstrations of the prototype
at its factory in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
The prototype was installed in January 2000
and ten Flowlines in total were installed
during that year. The early success can
mainly be put down to the fact that there
were no economically viable alternatives at
the time.
One of the big problems for German
machines was that they were not particularly
good for the UK’s complex internally glazed
casement windows and the fixed head tooling
systems often struggled to cope with the
many variations thrown up. Stuga’s rotary
tooling system overcame the complexity issues
of British windows. This a specialist field
pioneered by Stuga and considerable resources
have been invested into the technology over
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