Plaatwerk Fabriek: ‘thanks to our sheet metal storage rack, we have created space for a second laser cutter’

Has a: Logic sheet metal storage rack (3,000 x 1,500 mm)
Since: July 2019
Interview with: owner and director Willem Buth

Plaatwerk Fabriek is a manufacturer of sheet-metal work – in steel, stainless steel and aluminium. The company is based in Oude-Tonge (7 employees) and specialises in laser cutting. When it installed a second laser-cutting machine in 2019 Plaatwerk Fabriek also decided to purchase a Logic sheet metal storage rack.

“The immediate reason for doing this was to save space”, explains owner and director Willem Buth. “Because we actually had nowhere to put this second laser-cutting machine. Thanks to our sheet metal storage rack, we have created space for a second laser cutter.”

possibly 100 square metres of extra space

no other brand considered

“As far as I know aalbers|farina’s sheet metal storage rack is the most compact one available on the market. At the time we made our purchase it was certainly the only product offered by a renowned brand that worked in this way – with drawers. So we actually didn’t consider any other brand.”

super-efficient configuration

The sheet metal storage rack is now positioned between the two laser cutters. Willem confirms that this is a super-efficient configuration: “Using a sheet-handling unit that we developed ourselves, a kind of crane, we can take sheets from the rack and place them on one laser cutter or the other.”

responding flexibly to the customer’s needs

“Our company is good at responding quickly to customer demands”, Willem concludes. “Flexibility is therefore extremely important for us. On average, our new laser cutter is in use for 10 hours a day and the old one for 50 per cent of the time. That means we can be highly flexible. If a customer needs something, we can respond right away. The sheet metal storage rack also fits in with this approach. We want to respond flexibly to the customer’s needs and the combination of machines that we now have at our disposal allows us to do just that.”

“If a customer needs something, we can respond right away.

- Willem Buth, owner and director Plaatwerk Fabriek

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