Three new appointments

To strengthen after-sales support, two service engineers have been recruited. Nottingham-based Stephen Frost and Mick Thorpe, who will operate from Rotherham. A new sales engineer, Nikki-lee Ormerod, based in Barnoldswick, will be another useful point of contact for KASTO customers in the north of England.

Driving the extra recruitment are substantial orders in the past year for KASTO automated storage and retrieval systems.

Another factor is the success of the KASTOwin range of automatic production bandsaws, introduced last year. They are suitable for processing a variety of materials, especially steels, in both stockholding and manufacturing. 

Commonality of parts across the range and 25% fewer of them in each machine allows the high quality saws to be offered at competitive prices. They are also energy efficient, thanks in part to the electrically driven ballscrews and small hydraulic unit. So far, conversion rate from machine demonstration to order is almost 100%.