Thanks to their UK agents, D Zambelis, Spanish machinery company Gisbert have enjoyed a successful year in the UK.

The Gisbert company was founded in the 1940s and is based in the city of Alicante, one of Spain’s major stone regions. It offers a wide range of machinery for processing granite, marble and quartz, including CNC saws and workcentres and edge polishers.

Robust, reliable machinery and keen pricing has helped Gisbert to become rapidly established in the UK.

One of the company’s strengths is that it is happy to be flexible over the specification of its machines – so if you have some specific requirements, it will do everything it can to accommodate them, including altering the dimensions so the machines will fit into most workshops.

One of Gisbert’s highlights for this year was the installation of a new processing line at Portland stone quarry company Stone Firms, which ably demonstrates Gisbert’s flexibility.

Stone Firms wanted to slab their stone and transfer it to a production line that would cut it to length and finish the faces as easily as possible. One of the attractions of the Gisbert proposal was that they could provide an integrated solution with all the machinery, including automatic transfer from the saw to the polisher via a cross cut saw. Slabs are cut from the block on an NV720 block cutter. A DR300 automatic unloader loads the slabs on to a conveyor to be cut to length by an ER600 cross cut saw, from where they move on to the MCP-65 tile polisher that has four heads plus a calibrator on Portland, although Gisbert make the machines with up to three calibrating heads and 12 polishing heads.

Previously, the Gisbert machinery sold in the UK has been predominantly for the worktop processing market and the installation on Portland is the first time that Gisbert’s heavier equipment has been sold to a quarry company.