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The Sterling AX CNC Bandsaw - taking CNC sawing to a new level

The Sterling AX CNC Bandsaw - taking CNC sawing to a new level

  • 28-09-2023
  • Peter Dawber

The advanced Sterling AX CNC bandsaw is extremely accurate and easy to use with preset cutting parameters allowing any operator to achieve optimum cutting performance. Featuring servo technology in place of traditional hydraulics, as well as precise CNC control of the entire cutting cycle, this machine excels at production cutting of solid bars and precision tubes. Using the intuitive touch screen control, the operator enters the material properties along with a cutting list and the machine will work out the rest!

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Our Machinery Brands - Bianco

Our Machinery Brands - Bianco

  • 30-09-2022
  • Peter Dawber

Bianco Srl are a leading Italian manufacturer of precision bandsaws since 1982 and have produced more than 150,000 machines to date. Bison Machinery, as part of the UK Machinery Group, have exclusively represented the Bianco range in the UK since the late 1990’s. Bianco concentrates on producing manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic horizontal bandsaws, aimed at general fabrication and engineering workshops.

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Bianco Bandsaws - our perennial bestsellers

Bianco Bandsaws - our perennial bestsellers

  • 14-09-2020
  • Peter Dawber

Our two bestselling machines are, perhaps unsurprisingly, bandsaws; a machine which features in nearly every fabrication workshop. The top selling saws are easily the Bianco 280 M and 420 MS models, between them accounting for 60% of saw sales by volume.

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Our machinery brands; Sterling

Our machinery brands; Sterling

  • 11-02-2020
  • Peter Dawber

We have been supplying Sterling sawing machinery since the late 1990’s. In those years we saw a lot of success with basic straight cut engineering machines and their original twin pillar tube cutting models. Since then the range has expanded to include circular saws, vertical bandsaws and a much wider range of horizontal bandsaws. So what does Sterling offer you today?

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Blades Binding in Structural Steel

Blades Binding in Structural Steel

  • 25-11-2019
  • Matthew Denny

Structural steels are more abusive to bandsaw blades than any other metal sawing application. Paying careful attention to band and tooth set selection, along with use of optimal band speed, feed rate and coolant, can significantly minimise blade wear.

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