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which, said, Traini, was speaking about automatic
Intermac art GTI3.indd
such as sintered glass with
the real innovation of this loading and unloading a porcelain or quartz base.
year’s event. operations, to be able to This means that glassworks
At the area, we saw a stor- offer lines where operator now need to use technolo-
age and transport system intervention is reduced to gy that provide higher flex-
for glass sheets, on show a minimum, almost be- ibility for these new mate-
inside the showroom for the coming a supervisor of the rials and new uses. These
first time since the takeover line.” new materials enable to
last year. The perfectly inte- And of course we have pro- coat/cover products such
grated system provides the jects and ideas … as furniture that previously
possibility of transporting GENIUS used only wood.
the glass automatically to GENIUS RSA AND LM
Intermac’s cutting tables. Traini: Confirming what
Traini: This takeover was we at Intermac introduced Traini: The machinery
an important step for In- to the market some years that we have just seen are
termac to be able to sup- ago – offering glassworks obviously for high produc-
ply a complete range of a line where they could cut tion numbers, but at Inter-
machinery. And it does not both laminated and mono- mac we also work with the
just mean that we are sup- lithic glass. This means that ‘smaller’ glassworks, who
plying the right machine for the glassworks no longer have the same needs but in
that particular process but, had to choose between smaller quantities. These
on the other hand, involves one and another line. This machines, with the same
studying with the client combined line is made up combination of cutting
important features such as of a monolithic cutting ta- monolithic and laminated
available space, layout, and ble and a laminated cutting glass, are affordable for
production flow inside the table. It has the possibility these smaller glassworks.
glassworks so as to reduce of not only using the cut- With these same machines,
to the utmost down- and ting tables alternately, but we can also cut the new
dead times thanks to intel- also using one to ‘serve’ the sintered materials.
ligent storage, with reduced other and vice versa. MASTER 45.C
floorspace. Moreover, we are moving
more and more towards Traini: Intermac is known
What is the maximum glass size
Industry 4.0 and this ma- the world over for work
that these storage systems can
chine has the possibility of centres and at Intermac
manage?
adding extra devices such there was the new series
Traini: Standard glass sizes as a labelling station where of Master work centres
are half-jumbo, jumbo or the number of glass sheets, that were presented almost
extra jumbo but if we speak type of glass and processes two years ago. This series
about lengths we can see 7, being carried out can all is bigger, enabling to have
8 or more. Right now we be put in a special barcode more than one piece of
are developing plants that label that the machines will glass in the machine at the
can process glass sheets of be able to recognize at a same time. There is also a
12 to 15 metres in length. later date. patented system called Dy-
Of course, focussing more PRIMUS 402 namic Lock, that enables
and more on offering in- to process very small pieces
tegrated and highly auto- Traini: There are increas- of glass without difficulty
mated solutions you can ing needs and demands for – 10mm x 10mm! This
see that there are some pro- water jet cutting machines is possible with the same
cesses that our machines due to the diverse types of quality and performance of
don’t cover yet. So we are glass that are used now – larger pieces of glass.
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