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ic, moving organism, winding its way from procurement through fabrication/fitting, electrical and control assembly and, in time, customer site installation. With its workload increasing over the past several years, and financial commitment from Kadant, Balemaster addressed a number of areas that would allow its con- tinued growth. A higher capacity overhead crane was installed to ensure safe transport between assembly sta- tions, as well as the ability to handle the increasing frame size of its machines. “Our frames are getting larger and larger as our cus- tomers are growing, and the amount of scrap our custom- ers are producing grows,” said Golinsk. “So naturally, the size of the balers are trending larger, too. That’s another reason for our upgrades. Before the new crane upgrade, we were limited on how large of frames we could pick up.”
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In another dramatic capital move, an enormous robotic welding machine from IGM was recently installed. “Once the puzzle is put together and the shape of the machine is realized, it needs to be welded,” said Golinkski. “Experienced welders are hard to find, and welding is a tough process and takes great skill. We decided to auto- mate that whole process.” The Kadant purchase opened doors in that area as the company operates a sister company in Germany called Paal that had operated an IGM frame welding robot for more than five years. That experience aided immeasur- ably when Balemaster set its sights on a new welding ro- bot. “We discussed internally all of our criteria to design this welding robot and brought in IGM, based in Austria, to re- view everything we needed, point by point,” said Rykard. “We sat down with them and designed a welding ro- bot that spans 30 foot by 60 foot,” Golinkski continued. “It’s huge. It has multiple welding wire feeds on it, pre- heat torches and controls to fully automate the welding process of the frame. We’re welding frames in less time CONTINUED ON PAGE 28 The company’s newly installed robotic welder allows for full automation in the welding of machine frames.
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