Had-Fab designs, manufactures and constructs steel and aluminium constructions, mainly work extensively in the Power transmission and distribution industry as well as the rail and telecom sector. The supplier constructs pylons, towers and bearing structures, as well as secondary steel constructions, such as stairways, ladders and bridges, for these sectors. Had-Fab recently acquired an order to weld 15,000 brackets for the renovation of the London Underground. “Nowadays, there is almost nobody who looks at such a quantity as a challenge. For that reason, we decided to invest in a welding robot. While looking at what the well-known robot integrators had to offer, we kept running into the same problem,” said Simon Harrison.
All-in-one system
Voortman’s UK dealer advised Simon Harrison to talk to Valk Welding. Simon Harrison said, “I went to see Valk Welding at the EuroBlech trade fair in Hannover and told them what I was looking for. Their approach and their all-in-one system immediately appealed to me. In particular their offline programming system, in which you can program the robot, engineer the welding fixtures and plan the production, ensures that you make optimal use of the welding robot. Since they had a welding robot on an H-frame construction in stock, we were able to get started reasonably quickly. When we collected the installation in Alblasserdam, we were also able to take a look behind the scenes at Valk Welding, and that reassured us that we had taken the right choice.
