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expected we’d have to What about the
clean the machine and the grinding wheels - are
environment from time to they static or orient-
time and thus incorporated able; diamond or
an additional external dust abrasive?
aspiration system into the
system. Well, in 4 months Obviously, with a view to
of continuous testing on complete control of the
the machine, this addition- process, and considering
al system never needed to the absolute innovation of
be used, the working area the dry processing, this level, with an important re- handling and transport of
is and remains clean! project also involved the duction of chipping and no glass, in combination with
development of specific overheating of the surface. Neptun machines or ma-
Without water, how tools. These are innovative In addition to the seaming chines from other manu-
do you avoid over- cups wheels with abrasive process, Bravoseam can facturers. This model can
heating of the wheels technology, which guaran- execute also - at the same be compared to what is of-
and of the glass?
tee constant quality, with time as the seaming opera- fered by our competitors,
Stefano Bavelloni
an even arris width from tion - cornercutting or, al- although once again with
It’s a combination of a se- the beginning to the end of ternatively, edge deletion, superior speed and flex-
ries of features: the binder the glass border and bal- without compromising ibility.
used for the wheels and anced performance from speed! What drives
their level of abrasion, the beginning to the end of Also “simple” Neptun in this
speed, pressure, etc. Obvi- the wheel life. handling features relentless research
ously, it also depends on the The costs involved for and innovation?
amount of glass that needs these tools are one of the Our anthropomorphic ro-
Matteo Rolla
to be removed, for example unexpected characteris- bots can obviously also be
5 millimeters is impossible tics: extremely low costs of used for glass handling. No other company of our
to handle with this system! only 0.0045 ¢/metre, and Bravoseam can be used size invests so much in re-
long working life: at least in-line: the glass comes search and development,
for 8,000 metres without into the line and is meas- no one else has brought
deforming! ured, processed and sent so many new machines
All this was achieved over out automatically, or can and features to the mar-
a period of 12-14 months, be transported to the line ket in just a few years. The
including four months of via racks, where the differ- glass pre-processing mar-
uninterrupted tests in our ent processing steps for the ket, especially for polish-
factory. different packs of glass are ing and washing, is actu-
input, and the robots can ally a rather static market,
And what about pick up one glass sheet at many machines are still
the quality of the a time and put them into made exactly like 30 years
seaming process?
the line. ago. The innovations are
Quality aspects are cer- If there are problems of mostly limited to small ad-
tainly a crucial part of this space, the robot can be aptations and the use of
innovation. In fact, com- installed near the line and electronics, which do not
paring dry processing by can become a ‘corner-type’ change the substance of
Bravoseam with cup abra- transfer machine, with the processing.
sive wheels to traditional a space-saving ‘L’ or ‘U’ Neptun instead, was found-
peripheral diamond wheels shape layout. ed with the explicit objec-
with V-shape, there is a The Bravo series also in- tive to actively seek new
clear improvement in qual- cludes the model Bravoload, solutions to work better,
ity, also at microscopic which is designed just for increase quality, increase

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