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The new technology addition to Kloeck- nized and stainless, to heavy carbon
ner metals is the Bystar fiber. This new items with precision which reduced
fiber laser has substantially improved drops and lessens loses.
our scheduling abilities and our comple-
tion abilities to make sure that we keep The 80 x 160 bed allows us to cut much
our on-time delivery reputation for our larger parts than we were able to do
customers. We live in such an instanta- before, and the 21-shelf system that
neous society, where almost anything handles 11,000 pounds of material per
can be delivered to us with a simple click shift which allows us to now run 44,000
on a smart phone. The steel industry is pounds without an employee ever
no different, customers expect fast and having to touching a sheet. Without
Location:
Charlotte , prompt deliveries. The BiStar Fiber is having to do much manual labor, the
North Carolina able to cut any steel parts, from galva- operator’s job is to make sure everything
the machine needs is ready and to input
customer specifications, which reduced
safety risks.

Fiber laser cutting has been one of the
Fiber laser cutting most “disruptive” technologies intro-
duced to the metalworking market since
has been one of the CO2 lasers were first introduced for cut-
ting sheet metal back in the 1980s. Fiber
most “disruptive” laser cutting technology is considered
a disruptive and “revolutionary” change
technologies because it has impacted the entire sta-
introduced to the tus quo in sheet metal fabrication.

metalworking Whether we like it or not, the role of
technology in the steel industry is
market since CO2 expanding and will only keep growing

lasers. in the future. Businesses owe it to their
operations, employees, and bottom-line
to utilize the new technological innova-
tions. Technological advances enable us
to work more efficiently in a number of
different ways.

To learn more about this mean machine
watch the video on our Kloecker Metals
Youtube channel. Join Scheduling
Manager Chris Green, New Product
Coordinator Mark Wiggins, and Territory
Manager Will Crabtree as they discuss
the excitement of Bystronic ByStar Fiber,
the new laser addition to Kloeckner
Metals and the tremendous difference it
has made in production.

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