Increasingly, many people now opt to stay in their homes in later years, but for some, physical restrictions will make a stair lift a vital requirement.
This fact has inevitably given rise to the need to produce more stairlifts, which in turn has fuelled component manufacturing in this sector.
Fabricon Design, located in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire, produce in the region of 40,000 components for stairlifts every month. The company specialise in 3D computer design and prototype production and sampling, however, the surge in the stairlift market has prompted the company to invest in a Geka Hydracrop 80S system from Prosaw to accurately guillotine 90mm x 6mm mild steel flat bars to length. The system is fitted with an ALRS automated flat bar feeder, which simply eliminates the often cumbersome manipulation of the bars.
The installation of the Geka system has resulted in a number of substantial benefits in the form of cost savings as well as in increased production capacity for the company as managing director Mark Bushdyhan explained: “We previously utilised our CNC machine to crop the bars but since we invested in the Geka system to take over this process, we have seen savings in the region of £20,000 per annum as a result. The acquisition of the GEKA system has also allowed us to almost double our production capacity for this product.”
He added “Since we took delivery of the system, we’ve found it a very easy and low-cost machine to maintain, whilst Prosaw have been very helpful in customising the software to suit our production requirements as well as providing us with excellent service.”
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