With more than 50 years experience in milling and polishing stone, Thibaut, a French manufacturer of stone processing machines, has introduced a new CNC stoneworking center with five interpolated axes.
The Achilli MBS 3000-ce, available from Braxton-Bragg of Knoxville, TN, has established a solid record of reliability in the industry. In 2007, Achilli of Italy celebrated its 56th year in business. Since the beginning, Achilli has strived to manufacture dependable equipment that meets or exceeds the customer’s needs, including the incorporation of new designs on the saws.
The Denver Skema Logic C-180 Saw, from VIC International, is a monolithic bridge saw with the ability to cut an entire kitchen automatically. It features a 15-horsepower motor and a CNC rotating head capable of cutting right-angle and diagonal cuts through any position from 0 to 180 degrees. It has a unitized body requiring a smaller footprint than a standard gantry saw, and it is more accurate, faster and easier to use than conventional saws. This saw also offers quicker set-up time, and it eliminates the need for a rotating table.
Waterjet Powered by Mitsubishi Electric offers advanced programming capabilities that are an ideal complement to saw cutting and routing, and they enable straight-line cutting for countertops with the added flexibility of radius, reports the manufacturer. Users can preserve accuracy, while achieving more complicated, intricate countertop inlay designs.
The multiple-wire saw range from Pellegrini Meccanica now includes a new model, the Polywire 32. Designed for fast and flexible production, the Polywire 32 allows an operator to cut 32 slabs at a time. According to Pellegrini, this allows the production of three granite gangsaws with a single machine. The block size can be up to 11 1/2 feet long (350 cm) x 6 1/2 feet high (210 cm).