Yorkshire Trade Signs Off Stuga/Sturtz ZX5-S Deal at Glassex

Castleford based Rehau fabricator Yorkshire Trade Windows has been so pleased with its Stuga Flolwine-3 cutting & prepping centre over the last five years that the company didn't hesitate to go back to Stuga when it decided to buy a centre with more capacity to cope with its expansion.

After considering other options in the market Managing Director Stuart Drewell asked Stuga if the company could offer a very high output cutting & prepping centre at the leading edge of technology so that he could make another long term investment that could be relied on for years of trouble free service. Stuart had looked at top end machines from well known German manufacturers but still wanted to have the benefit of the Stuga service ethic with guaranteed call out times, ex stock spare parts and a UK based technology centre.

What Stuart hadn't realised was that Stuga had a sales and technology agreement with uPVC machinery fabricator Sturtz Maschinenbau. Once Stuga Sales Director Steve Haines explained how the mutual co-operation worked giving the full benefit of the very latest leading edge German technology supplied through a company dedicated to technology and an absolute top class service Stuart couldn't wait to see the jointly developed ZX5-S working at Glassex. He wasn't disappointed!

The ZX5-S is designed to quietly and comfortably produce in excess of 1,000 internally glazed windows per standard single shift working week without fuss or error and visitors to the stand shared by Stuga and Sturtz at Glassex could not fail to be impressed and so it was with Yorkshire Windows which signed up for the first machine on the spot. The machine is now back in Germany working daily under test conditions running pre-production trials and being fully extended ahead of delivery to Yorkshire Trade in May.

The ZX5-S utilises the well proven 'U' shaped configuration to ensure the best possible ergonomics for operators. It also utilises the highly respected and well proven rotary tooling technology that has proven reliable in spite of the best attempts of competitors to create a negative picture.

The ZX5-S has linear drives on the two main carriages as well as on the rotary tooling system and utilises standard infeed, outfeed and transfer tables already used by Sturtz on its continental and American cutting & prepping centres. CNC controlled grippers on both cutting and prepping ensure trouble free handling and movement of all known profiles used in the British window market.

With noise becoming more a feature in work place legislation the ZX5-S with a complete sound proofing chamber over cutting & prepping is well placed to cope with new legislation as well as improve the environment around it.

With a reliable 1,000 windows plus output and accuracy and reliability built in the ZX5-S is very much at the leading edge of technology where it will inevitably compare with top end machines like the BJM and Schirmer, also looked at by Yorkshire Trade before making the company’s decision to buy from Sturtz and Stuga.

For further information on the ZX5-S and numerous other Stuga and Sturtz products including automatic welding and cleaning equipment please call 0800 169 5444.

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