OMEC water treatment and recycling systems have kept New Stone Age busy for the past three years and it is not over yet. Three more systems have been installed this year and another is currently under construction. You can read about this in the November edition of Natural Stone Specialist and you will be able to see the OMF 604 and 814 filter presses and the automatic flocculent station on the OMEC stand in Verona.
But it is not only water treatment plant that is keeping New Stone Age busy now. It has for many years represented saw makers BM and Bombieri & Venturi in the UK, and James Turton, the Managing Director of New Stone Age, will be available on the companies’ stands at Marmomacc again this year.
BM monoblades continue to be the preferred primary saws for many UK Stone producers – lately Traditional Stone & Slate in Yorkshire has installed a BM Super 800 Monoblade and Tradstocks in Scotland has installed a BM Super under the New Stone Age Part EX scheme.
In Verona, BM will be showing its 40-wire Kodiak saw for cutting marble and granite blocks.
The latest Bombieri & Venturi saw to be installed by New Stone Age is the brand new FBV/1000-450MG CNC bridge saw with a 1m disc at M & M Stone in Bingley, Yorkshire. It complements the masonry work at M & M Stone producing columns and balustrades.
The head of the saw tilts to 90º and the software includes a programme specifically for producing tactile paving.
New Stone Age has also this year installed an IBV/600 automatic heading machine at Dring Stone Ltd in North Yorkshire to cut sawn strips to length, and an FTBV/1600-1000 M automatic bridge saw with an extended bridge to clear a block 3.2m long at both ends of the travel with a 1600mm blade. A laser measuring conveyor allows the operator to specify random length cuts quickly.
New Stone Age has just commissioned a new production line for processing sandstone and granite blocks into kerbs, walling and ashlar at Tradstocks. The system comprises a TBV/1600-4MG automatic block cutter that can saw four sided strips directly from the block up to sections of 610 x 230mm.
The saw is automatically unloaded by an AERO BV directly on to a conveyor, or on to a pallet so the stone can be reprocessed later. An IBV/600 MG step-cutting heading machine cuts the strips to length. Again, this machine has the special laser conveyor for producing random lengths.
In Verona, BV will be exhibiting its latest FBV/1000-450MG CNC bridge saw with a 1m disc, a FTBV/1600-1000 M automatic bridge saw, IBV/600 automatic heading machine, IBV/600 step cutting automatic heading machine and TBV/1600-4MG block cutter with AERO BV unloader.
Another Italian heavyweight sold by New Stone Age is Marchetti – and a Marchetti AXCO 1600 five axes CNC workcentre has been installed in a factory in Southern England this year. The machine can be supplied with a 6tonne lathe that constitutes a sixth axis.
At Marmomacc, Marchetti will present its new Hyper fully automated CNC ashlar and paving line. It photographs the slabs and the operator uses the picture to programme regular or irregular shaped cuts. After the exhibition the line is being installed at one of the largest stone manufactures in Italy. Marchetti will also be showing its Axqua waterjet cutter engineered specifically for the marble and stone sector.
Another of the New Stone Age principals is Benetti, which makes diamond belt saws for mining and quarrying. A Benetti Fast 736 diamond belt saw has been supplied by New Stone Age this year in Southern England. In Verona, Benetti will be showing its new Terna CST 965 tractor mounted chain saw and a diamond wire saw.
The final company represented by New Stone Age that will be exhibiting at Verona is crane-maker Faedo. New Stone Age has installed a Faedo 10tonne gantry and overhead cranes in Southern England this year. The gantry runs on 50m rails and spans 28m, with a 4m cantilever for loading and unloading blocks from wagons, while the overhead cranes span more than 13m with three bridges at 5tonnes each.