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he new technology addition BiStar Fiber is able to cut any steel parts,
to Kloeckner metals is the By- from galvanized and stainless, to heavy
star Fiber. This new fiber laser carbon items with precision which
has substantially improved reduced drops and lessens loses.
Tour scheduling abilities and
our completion abilities to make sure The 80 x 160 bed allows us to cut much
that we keep our on-time delivery repu- larger parts than we were able to do
tation for our customers. We live in such before, and the 21-shelf system that
an instantaneous society, where almost handles 11,000 pounds of material
anything can be delivered to us with per shift which allows us to now run
a simple click on a smart phone. The 44,000 pounds without an employee
Location:
Charlotte, steel industry is no different, customers ever having to touch a sheet. Without
North Carolina expect fast and prompt deliveries. The having to do much manual labor, the
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 Fiber laser cutting has been one of the
most “disruptive” technologies intro-
has been one of duced to the metalworking market since
CO2 lasers were first introduced for cut-
the most disruptive ting sheet metal back in the 1980s. Fiber
laser cutting technology is considered
technologies a disruptive and “revolutionary” change
introduced to the because it has impacted the entire sta-
tus quo in sheet metal fabrication.
metalworking Whether we like it or not, the role of

market since CO2 technology in the steel industry is

lasers.” expanding and will only keep growing
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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