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Tecnolaser installed this Salvagnini Model L5 3-kW fiber-laser cutting machine early in 2014 to take over work from an aging 2.5-kW CO2-laser model. The firm fabricates 600 tons of galvanized and stainless-steel sheet per month, and finds that the fiber laser improves cut-edge quality on galvanized steel sheet.
nation machines and five laser-cutting machines (two fiber lasers and three CO2 machines).
Immediately catching the eye of those who tour Tecnolaser, however, is the Salvagnini Traystore. This auto- mated material-storage and retrieval system features some 1000 trays of varying sizes, grades and gauges of sheet (3000-ton capacity) to keep the sheetmetal flowing to and from the shop’s laser-cutting machines and to its punching-shearing operations.
Its latest Salvagnini acquisition is a Model L5 3-kW fiber-laser cutting machine, installed early in 2014. Brought on to take over work from an aging 2.5-kW CO2-laser model, it joined an L3 machine (2-kW fiber source) installed in 2010.
Tecnolaser fabricates, we were told, 600 tons of galvanized and stainless- steel sheet per month. Management particularly favors its fiber-laser machines for taking on galvanized material, finding that cut-edge quality
goal, explains Bello, is to produce qual- ity parts from the very first piece.
“In the past, if a customer fabricat-
ed 100 to 200 parts or more per batch,
the quality of the first piece was not so
critical,” says Bello. “However, when
fabricators must produce lot sizes of
only five or 10 parts, during prototype

development for example, the quality
of the first-piece off is critical. That’s where the MAC feature is a factor.”
From Salvagnini HQ in Sarego we headed to the town of Curtarolo to visit metal-fabricating job shop Tecnolaser. The 15,500-sq.-m shop houses numer- ous Salvagnini machines including two large panel benders, several press brakes, a pair of punch-shear combi-
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