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agement decided to solve laysia. The market has
problems step by step. In become very demanding:
2014 they bought a LiSEC on-time delivery, quality,
automatic cutting line and reliability and cost com-
PKL crane system. petitiveness are the con-
Before that employees at stant values. With LiSEC
Crystal Safety Glass were technologies we ensure our
carrying out these pro- customers’ satisfaction at
cesses manually. After the all time. We are still look-
installation, cutting and ing for innovative ways to
loading operations became improve our processes and
simple and fast. The to- efficiency by using automa-
tal glass breakage during tion and machinery. With
unloading was reduced to that we can cut down de-
nearly zero. At the same pendence on labour work-
time, the working environ- force and minimize human
trading company in 1992. laysia, but a lot of products ment was also improved. error during operations.
During the Asian Financial are exported to Singapore, Before the LiSEC loading Cooperation with LiSEC
Crisis in 1997 one of his Thailand, Cambodia, Viet- system was installed, there has provided us with the
customers who owed him nam and Indonesia. were four to five physical breakthrough solution to
money asked to offset his Crystal Safety Glass is still injuries every quarter, now realize our glass processing
debt with two containers a family business run by there are nearly none. business value.”
of glass. Tan knew about Frank and his sister Yi Shin, “Simple operation con-
the possibilities of glass as who both joined the compa- trolled by software ensure
a construction material. ny in 2000. Their father had that there are no errors in
Seeing the opportunity, been preparing his children glass selection and cutting
Tan changed his business for business since they were dimension. The software
from trading glassware young. Both of them put a optimisation ensures the
to trading glass. In 1998 lot of efforts in bringing the precision of our output. The
he borrowed money from company to the next level. high reliability of LiSEC ma-
LiSEC Group
friends, moved into a rent- They found that product chines sostituire con: LiSEC Group
ed 3,000-square-foot shop quality is vital as consumers’ has made our overall opera-
lot and hired three people expectations have increased tions smooth and efficient.”
for his new glass operation. over the years. They de- Thanks to the highly au-
cided to move from selling tomated loading system,
CONTINUOUS large quantities of glass at Crystal Safety Glass was Peter-Lisec-Straße 1
UPTREND; cheap price and invested in able to cut down the man- 3353 Seitenstetten - Austria
CONTINUOUS quality, productivity and a power per operation from Tel.: 0043-7477-4050
Fax: 0043-7477-40580
PRODUCT QUALITY safe working environment. ten to three people, which E-mail: sales@lisec.com
Since its foundation the The solution to reach this helps the company in www.lisec.com
company has been on a level was offered by LiSEC terms of investment return
continuous uptrend. Tan in 2013. in the long run. Besides
now employs 300 people that, workforce was trans-
and the plant’s size has SOLVING PROBLEMS formed from low skilled to
grown to 300,000 square STEP BY STEP higher skilled workers.
feet, with another factory The investment budget has
of 400,000 square feet always been a major fac- FAST-CHANGING
which opened at the end of tor in making business de- MARKET
2018. The main sales mar- cisions at Crystal Safety “The glass industry is
ket is domestic around Ma- Glass, that is why the man- changing very fast in Ma-

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