Clearview National April 2016 - Issue 173 | Page 77

FIT SHOW 2016

STUGA
MACHINERY
AND THE FIT
SHOW 2016

With a brand and reputation spanning
across three decades, British manufacturer
Stuga Machinery Group has a lot to
shout out about at this year’s FIT show.
»»Stuga has developed its
product range in-line with a
multitude of PVCu window
and door manufacturers
throughout the UK and abroad,
and shares a passion for
innovation and technology to
enhance its product range for its
customers.
Steve Haines, one of Stuga’s
owners, talks to Clearview
about the company’s strength
of being a British manufacturer,
the support it can offer and how
this has assisted the business
to develop its complex range of
machines to fit perfectly into the
window market.
Stuga’s comprehensive
collection of sawing and
machining centres are designed
to include a range of complex
precision machining, offering
users ease of use, reduction
in the need of over-skilled
operators, leading to a reduction
in potential errors.
“Our machines are all
manufactured and shipped
from our site in Great Yarmouth.
We manufacture everything in
the UK and can provide our
customers the machines, service,
technical backup and spare parts
they require, quickly within an
acceptable lead-time.
“At the hub of the business is
our service centre. The centre is

geared up to link directly to any
machine anywhere in the UK,
allowing us to conduct online
diagnostics individually for our
customers, and over the last
ten years we have been fitting
on-board cameras, strategically
placed on the machines to help
with more integrated and critical
problems. The cameras are highdefinition and full colour with
sound, and can record helping
us to help customers diagnose
problems with their machines
more quickly.”
Sitting under the Stuga
brand is a range of standalone machines, including;
fully automated sawing and
machining centres, with lines
offering varying outputs to suit
the needs of PVCu window and
door fabricators.
Constantly evolving, Stuga has
a policy not to make any of its
machines obsolete and engineers
its products to offer first, second,
third hand mechanical longevity.
“We have both the technical
knowhow and the skills
to refurbish and keep our
machines running for a very
long-time. Dealing direct with
the manufacturer and not via a
distributor, allowing us to keep
our machines upgraded quickly
unlike European and Chinese
competitors.

“Our thirty years expertise,
starting with the production
of a simple CNC router used
for producing aluminium patio
doors has evolved so much so
that we now develop a more
complex range of machines, but
with a significant benefit to our
clients.
“More recently, the company
introduced the AutoFlow-2
sawing and machining centre,
which was the start of creating
a small footprint suitable for
providing larger specialised
PVCu profiles. Other advantages
from the AutoFlow-2 are the
addition of a ‘VS’ version,
allowing larger vertical slider
manufacturers the opportunity
to produce ‘frame to cill’ angle
automatically without the need to
reset the frame on the machine.
Holes for cills can also be
produced automatically, ready
for mechanical fixings.” Steve
adds.
Stuga’s top selling machine
in 2014 and 2015 was the
company’s flagship ZX4 sawing
and machining centre; a machine
which can produce up to 1,000
or more windows per week.
First introduced ten years
ago, the ZX4 is constantly being

updated to ensure that its keeps
up with the advancements
of modern technology and
developments in manufacture.
The ZX4 MK6 is the latest
version in the series of upgrades
and although similar in look to
the MK1 version the machine
has a multitude of benefits to its
predecessor.
The hig h output machine is
operated by a state-of-the-art
Beckhoff control system and
offers 45 and 90 degree cuts.
With 360 degree rotary tooling
for unlimited machining, the
centre offers no limitation to the
number of profiles that can be
used on the machine. Its flexible
faster heads also allow for
quicker profile positioning.
Other advantages and benefits
of the ZX4 include multiple feed
– left or right, profile recognition,
swarf extraction, bar scanning
and labelling.
At the heart of every Stuga
sawing and machining centre is a
rotary tooling system, and one of
these will be exhibited at the FIT
Show this year.

Stand 240, FIT Show, Telford
www.stuga.co.uk

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