Kenzingen, 30 kilometers north of Freiburg is often called “Pearl in Breisgau”. More than 10,000 inhabitants and many visitors like to stroll through its historic old town and it is also the place where employees of
Maschinenund Metallbau Striegel GmbH go about their work with great passion and skill. In 1991, Joachim Striegel founded the company because he always wanted to stand on his own feet as he revealed during the interview. Striegel‘s customers appreciate the results of cutting and joining steel and stainless steel as well as their production of complete assemblies. “If someone needs quick help, then they come to us,” says Managing Director and founder Joachim Striegel.
The AquaCut 6001.30WWrkP from MicroStep is equipped with a waterjet rotator, a second straight waterjet head and a plasma cutting head for underwater cutting. It also has a pipe cutting channel.
The requirements are as diverse as the customers: pharmaceutical industry, food and beverage industry, tunnel technology or heavy engineering. The expectations Joachim Striegel and his team have to meet are very high. The company has corresponding demands on its machines. About ten years ago they started to use waterjet cutting.
Later on, Striegel invested into a plasma cutting machine from MicroStep. However, over time, the solution with two cutting machines utilizing different technologies proved to be no longer adequate because operation and loading took too much time and limited the production. And so, Striegel considered several offers for new equipment and eventually decided to invest into a combined CNC waterjet-plasma cutting machine from MicroStep.
The waterjet rotator is capable of cutting bevels up to 45°.
“I made that decision because I had good experience with MicroStep.” The
AquaCut 6001.30WWrkP from MicroStep is equipped with a
waterjet rotator for cutting bevels up to 45°, a second
straight waterjet head and a
plasma cutting head for underwater cutting. It also has a pipe cutting channel. With a large work area of 6,000 x 3,000 mm the machine can bevel cut and mark plates and pipes of various sizes. The machine runs seven days a week from 7 am to 11 pm. Mr. Striegel is satisfied: “The new machine is exactly like I imagined it.”
With a large work area of 6,000 x 3,000 mm the machine can bevel cut and mark plates and pipes of various sizes.
