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23-27 October 2012

workshop with more than 15 CNC turning centres. With an ISO certified in-house heat treatment facility having a capacity of over 300 tn/month it is able to maintain world-class standards for all its products. The company over the last few years has made significant inroads in the worldwide tube and section manufacturing industry by supplying to Australia, North and South Africa, the Far East, Canada, Russia, the Middle East, Europe and various mill OEMs in India.

Tube nesting can be performed in batchmode, with nomanual intervention. act/tubes can perform a ‘true 3D’ tube nesting on non-straight cuts in order to save material. The programming of 4- or 5-axis machines and robots allows a complete modelling of the machine and its 3D environment, together with the machine kinematics, regardless of the number of machine or robot axes. act/tubes recognises tube cutting contours, manages head orientation, and calculates trajectories thanks to a powerful algorithm optimising paths while avoiding collisions. It creates and validates the cutting program using realistic simulation and automatic control functions and visual anomaly indicators. ISO programs are generated using postprocessor specific to the manufacturing machines or robots. THE Atlas brand (DB Engg) was formed 60 years ago and has evolved to become one of India’s largest tool equipment manufacturers with currently more than 600 employees and an annual turnover of more than $20mn. The forming rolls division was established 25 years ago and currently the company produces 24,000 rolls a year. With its specialist knowledge of various steel grades gained over six decades and an in-house design team with a combined experience of 20 years Atlas prides itself in providing a complete one-stop shop for all customers in the cold rolling industry. By incorporating a world-leading roll forming software it is able to provide excellent technical advice on rolls and optimisation of production processes for its customers. This approach combined with its ISO certified quality standards has helped enable Atlas to become one of the leading Indian manufacturers of rolls for the production of tubes and other roll formed open and closed sections. The company can design and produce tube forming and open section-forming rolls ranging from 50mm to 800mm in diameter. Before production all roll designs undergo a simulation and finite element analysis to achieve ameticulous final product. All manufacturing is done in its state-of-the-art manufacturing Website: www.almacam.com Atlas Knives (DB Engg) India Ha ll 14 Stand R28

AGTOS GmbH Germany

Hall 13 Stand B63

AGTOS is a specialist in the production of shot-blasting machines for cleaning, derusting, descaling and hardening of surfaces. It also offers high quality second-hand machines. AGTOS sets a high value on a comprehensive service around the blasting technology. Therefore, AGTOS provides suitable spare parts for blast machines of many brands and realises the repairs. During EuroBLECH 2012 AGTOS will present a new roller conveyor shot blast machine. Innovative turbine and filter systems as well as optimised installations for maintenance help to ensure the economic way of surface treatment for sheet metal, profiles and constructions. ALMA will present the latest version of its act/tubes CAD/CAM software for the programming of tube cutting machines and robots, which is part of a complete software range for sheet metal working and tube processing. act/tubes is a user-friendly and highly automated solution dedicated to tube and profile cutting. The software integrates all the programming steps, including tube modelling, 3D import, nesting of sections to be cut, creation and sequencing of cutting tasks, and post-processing. It can also take into account peripheral equipment such as loading/unloading units. The software can control any kind of tube-cutting systems: 2D machines with a rotative axis, 4-axis machines dedicated to tube cutting, 5-axis machines with one or several rotative axes, and robot cells aimed at cutting tubes. 3D modelling of tubes and of any kind of section bars can be performed with Tube Designer, a dedicated module of act/tubes. 3D models of bars and tubes can also be generated thanks to existing libraries of predefined tube sections and extruded bars. 3D parts can be imported from various CAD systems, either directly or using STEP, IGES or SAT formats. Website: www.agtos.de Alma France Hall 11 Stand G33

Website: www.atlasknives.com

Combilift Ireland

Hall 12 Stand F74

THE global expert in the long load handling sector Combilift Ltd continues to develop new models on a regular basis, so the company’s stand is always worth a visit to see what this innovative Irish manufacturer has come up with since the last show. Combilift manufactures a wide range of customised 4-way forklifts, all of which are designed for the safe and space saving handling of the large and bulky loads typically handled in the sheet metal sector. Combilifts work as counterbalance, sideloader, and narrow-aisle forklifts. Their versatility to operate both inside and out on semi rough terrain, and in harsh weather conditions enables users to not only maximise available storage space but to also improve productivity in and around the warehouse. Sideways travel with loads resting on the platform enables the trucks to work in aisles widths of just two metres, and avoids the need for hazardous high level transportation, significantly improving safety procedures. With fully synchronised 4-way steering guaranteeing excellent manoeuvrability

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