Vertical CNC stone processing machines
These machines arrived on the market only few years ago. If in another similar market (falt galss market) they have fastly taken a part of the market they don't meet a lot of interest on stone market , mainly because the main CNC stone machines suppliers (Intermac, CMS, Bimatech, Thibaut, Denver, Breton) don' propose such machines.
The main advantage is that they need less space in a workshop. Another advantage is that the stone positionning on the machine is faster.
But many questions remain:
First of all they are new on the market. It means this machine will need some time to be reliable.
The market asks to process large stone dimensions and these machines offer only small workable dimensions
Moreover the pieces removed on the slab during processing can remain in area where the following tools will work. So risks exist about stone or tools breakage.
The main interest for the vertical processing is to be able to work on line with several machines (no loading or unloading....) In case of stone processing, the cutting, for exemple can't be on a vertical way because no vertical bridge saws exist on the market.
