Tag: Kasto

Kasto has recently updated the Unitop storage system with a comprehensive retrofit. During the retrofit at Heine + Beisswenger, Kasto replaced the existing S5 system control with a modern Siemens Simatic S7 400 PLC and updated the drive controllers as well as the SRM's positioning sensors and Profinet connection.

German storage system manufacturer, KASTO has introduced a pick-by-light option for its computer-controlled industrial warehouses, which are available in the UK and Ireland.

Automation, networking, and robotics are rapidly gaining ground in metalworking and in storage and sawing technology. Storage systems and sawing machines are increasingly being integrated into a uniformly controlled material flow in which all processes between incoming and outgoing goods are fully automated from the storage of the long goods raw material to the dispatch of the palletized finished parts.

Alloys Services (Weston-Super-Mare, SW England) has installed a larger, more efficient CNC bandsawing machine from KASTO.

VETEC Ventiltechnik, a valve company in Speyer, Germany, chose KASTO's KASTOtec after having done test cuts with bandsaws of different types.

When Amari Metals wanted to create a twin site operation in the West Midlands capable of storing and supplying to UK stockholders all of the stainless steel, aluminium, copper, brass and bronze products in their range, they turned to Rivers Machinery for a materials handling solution.