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Modern methods of construction increases productivity

our production line in Powys. “The package we settled on included a FRAMETEQ Framing Station, a WALLTEQ M-120 Multifunction Bridge and a MOVETEQ P-300 Work and buffer Station. At half a million pounds, it [...] consistently meet a very demanding tolerance of plus or minus 2 mm. “To achieve these criteria we have 120 quality checks throughout the factory for every module that we produce. This enables us to give a 60-year

Roof and house from the same production line

of 10 m tables the company selected a more compact solution with tables that are 8 m in length. The two production lines are otherwise identical, with both allowing a maximum element width of 3.50 m. Both [...] construction site. The company is based in Haaksbergen, where its 120 permanent and 80-85 temporary employees produce around 220 000 m 2 of roofing each year. Pioneering pilot project However, timber [...] machines are used to process the beams and studs. The foil and sheathing are then attached before a WALLTEQ M-380 multifunction bridge fastenes and processes the sheathing. The tables have adjustable hinged

Everything done right from an early stage

station is followed by a WALLTEQ M-380 multifunction bridge with two tables plus an encoder for the turning operation; in the second, there are three other tables and a second WALLTEQ M-380. Buffers for complex [...] the journey will take you." The element width is up to 2.50 m, the standard length is 14 m and can be increased to 18 m using blocks. "14 m allows me to have two elements per table and thereby speed things [...] automation, manual production was set to an element height of up to 3.11 m, but today, elements with heights of 1.50 m to 3.50 m can be produced. "High walls are now practically standard in residential

Wood work is on the up

wood elements up to 120 mm thick can be processed, should the company move into multistory wood work as part of its expansion. After the sheathing has been cut and processed by a WALLTEQ M-340 multifunction [...] above that, there are maybe 12 or 13 companies that can produce prefabricated elements of up to 13 m in length. They work manually, so they can produce and erect around one house per week. There are only [...] construction companies in the country that have an automated production line. One has capacity for around 120 houses per year, the other 300." The latter company is Berger Hazak in Polgar. As part of a comprehensive

Faster, better, more ergonomic

increase our efficiency. So we got together with Tobias Klein and planned a production line with a WALLTEQ M-120." In Overath, the semi-automatic multifunction bridge works on two BUILDTEQ A-530 tilt tables

Finger firmly on the pulse

70 m, with the preferred width dimension being 3.40 m. "We can play within this framework, for example, we are currently building a school with large, open room modules and a ceiling span of 8.00 m. If [...] self-assembly tables right from the start, and we can wait a little for our multifunction bridge — a WALLTEQ M-380 — because we've been running production manually so far anyway." However, the businessman wanted [...] company wanted a temporary office building for 120 employees for four years. We were awarded the contract and delivered a three-story modular building with 3500 m 2 of usable space, the quality of which was

Fit for the new standard

However, SOCOPA was not primarily concerned with increasing capacity when it in-vested in a new WALLTEQ M-120, a FRAMETEQ F-300 frame work station and three new work tables for its Vagney production facility