Machinery: Waters Group

The French-made Thibaut brand has been the mainstay of the Waters Group’s machinery offering for many years. Thibaut has been making machines for more than 50 years and the range has, of course, expanded enormously in that time to keep abreast of the needs of masonry factories.

The results of the latest developments will be on show at Marmomacc, in Hall 4 on stand F2-F3. Centre stage will be Thibaut’s version of the robot arm, the Transformer. There will also be the latest developments in polishing and texturing centres, wire saws for shaping and cutting, multifunction manual machines and edge polishers.

The Transformer comes with a rotating table to give it a seventh axis and can even be mounted on a runway to add an eighth axis if required.

Another machine making its first public appearance in Verona is the T858V2 workcentre, which has a more modest five axes for monumental and architectural stonework. It has a magazine capable of storing up to 135 tools.

There will be the T812V3, a four axes workcentre with a 40-tool rotating magazine for making worktops fully automatically, and the TC650 sawing centre with its patented angle cut system (ACS) working in up to five axes. Chosen for its precision, speed and accuracy, it is available with many configurations and options – belt transfer, slab thickness sensoring, slab picturing system, grooving table…

Another range Waters Group is now selling is the Flow waterjet cutters. Waterjets are particularly versatile machines, especially well suited to working the diverse range of materials used in the stone industry. They can quickly and easily cut complex contours in even the hardest of materials.

Waters personnel will be delighted to meet customers who want to find out for themselves just what extra value waterjet cutting could bring to their businesses on the Flow stand at Marmomacc. It is in

Hall 1, stand 14, where there will be live demonstrations of the M3-4020b, which can cut precision bevels.

If you are not going to Verona, Waters Group can demonstrate a Flow machine to you in the middle of the UK at Leicester. You are welcome to bring along your own test pieces. “Get the facts, learn about the benefits, then make up your mind,” says the Waters Group.

Montresor edge polishers round off the Waters Group offering and there will be a chance to see live demonstrations of some of the latest machines in Hall 4, stand B5.

On show will be: a Luna 880-Matic, that has four additional oscillating heads for the fast production of pencil round, half and quarter bevels and half bullnose profiles; a Lola 600 for straight edges that has a tiltable cutting unit, seven mobile frontal heads and 3+3 bevelling heads with a sliding system for precise bevels even on uncalibrated material; and a ViVa 220 for V-grooving.