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Charcon Improve Production Process

Charcon, specialists in off-site solutions for the UK's civil engineering industry, has significantly increased production capabilities at its Croft factory thanks to a new automatic stirrup bender from MEP.

Charcon, an Aggregate Industries UK Ltd business and a leading producer of pre-cast concrete service protection systems, has acquired a new automatic stirrup bender to help speed up production and replace the factory's existing manual bending system.

MEP Rebar

Paul Saunders, Operations Manager at Charcon, began looking for an automatic stirrup bender to replace the factory's slow manual bending system and speed up production. He said: )It was the reputation of MEP as leaders in the market and a visit to see a machine working at a third party site that convinced me to select the MEP Focus 12 product to assist our operations.)

The MEP Focus 12 has the capacity of handling diameters from 6mm to 12mm of cold or hot rolled rebar and the ability to process two wires up to 12mm, including the additional ease of set-up and programming by unskilled operatives, which was an important factor for Charcon.

MEP Rebar

Chris Garton, Assistant Factory Manager for Charcon, explained: )Our expectations of the MEP link bender have been greatly exceeded; it is easily capable of doing what we bought it for. Though speed is not of the essence in our business, accuracy most certainly is and this product meets our specifications.)

Currently, Charcon has 60 standard shapes held in the bender's computer graphic memory enabling swift product shape changes with one off specials easily created and output is completed during a single shift per day. Charcon's output is up to 450 tonnes of finished product a week and most items would contain reinforcement.