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AUTOMATION AND DEVELOPMENTS

profit margins, reduce novation. We know it’s have extended our product The new Quickline is also
costs, .. worth it, and we already range, completing it with designed to be integrated
Neptun wants to bring have plenty of small and specific functions and with robotic loading and
into the world of glass big success stories to versions that further en- unloading work islands,
something that will leave strengthen our persever- hance the most valuable further expanding the pos-
its mark, which will be ance. features of each machine. sibilities of automation and
remembered. The own- What advantages For example, the vertical integration, which have al-
ership of the company, does the customer work centres of the se- ways been subject of great
and most of the collabo- get from all this? ries Quick have entered attention by Neptun, and
rators, come from an the area of architectural that fit perfectly into the
important experience in The customer is the first glass, moving from ma- current concept of Indus-
another company which, one who benefits from all chines to process glass for try 4.0.
in the 80s and 90s, really this! Neptun’s innovations doors, furniture and par- Tornado: dedicated
marked a turning point in bring an important com- tition walls, to those for versions of horizontal
the sector, and that’s the petitive advantage to the large-sized glass sheets. washers for specific
thrill that still drives us. customers. Market ben- The higher need for au- applications
efits from the introduction tomation of this industry
That’s an ambition of a real process innova- segment is effectively dealt Starting from the well-
that requires great tion that is not just an- with by the high-speed and established version Torna-
courage, it demands other machine that works high-performance features do and based on our expe-
fatigue and in exactly the same way as which are intrinsic to the rience, we have developed
commitment!
other existing models. Quick series. a series of models of hori-
Matteo Rolla
We remember some true All the technical solu- zontal washers dedicated
Every new project re- innovations of Neptun, tions that have enabled the to specific applications,
quires significant finan- introducing real new Quick series to become the like digital printing, white
cial investments, without functions: starting from market reference for ‘ver- goods, lamination, ultra-
having the certainty of the system Ecosave for tical machining for interi- thin hi-tech glass, etc.
succeeding. It requires ef- energy reduction in the ors’ are brought back and These models have been
forts, which involve all the drying of glass sheets, the amplified in the new archi- designed specifically to
company departments, patented system Edge to tectural applications. guarantee an optimal re-
not only the technical of- Shape allowing to square The rotary tools maga- sult taking into account
fice for engineering or the glass and control the zine of Quickdrill T8, for the particular requirements
production for assembly, final geometry on the example, can change the of these specific industry
but also the sales office for straight-line edger Rock, drilling tool whilst posi- environments: Tornado
the definition of quotation up to Cornercut which tioning the axes, reduc- LT, for example, is de-
texts, presentations to the integrates automatic cor- ing the execution time signed specifically for the
sales team, purchase, ac- nercutting in the washing between two holes of dif- high-tech sector, to pro-
counting. Surely without process, and finally the ferent diameters to only cess glass sheets as thin as
all projects and proto- vertical NC processing 8 seconds, even on the 0.5mm; the white goods in-
types we continue to de- centres Quick, based on 2800mm sheet. dustry, on the other hand,
velop, the company could a concept that divides into Or let’s take the DCS tool requires high speed, up to
live more quietly, as the 2 machines a process that penetration control func- 15 m/min, and maximum
other companies of our is usually carried out on a tion that optimizes the integration with quality
size do, and certainly we single working center, in- processing speed of the control systems in order to
could make more money. creasing speed and quality countersinkers for spider guarantee a constant level
But Neptun prefers to get while significantly reduc- holes, or finally the milling of cleanliness of the water.
involved, take the risk, ing costs for both initial process with locked glass, These machines are not
sometimes on the edge of investment and mainte- even more critical for qual- customisations of the
madness, to bear all the nance. ity and speed when moving standard washing ma-
costs that come from in- In the past three years we heavy and large glass. chines, but dedicated mod-

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