One of the conditions that Alö required was a high consistent quality. Director and owner of Progress Leszek Sawick: “The products require continuous high quality of welding so it was strongly recommended by the customer to weld the products from the beginning on robots. Only robotic welding guaranties continuous high standard of welding. We already use two welding robots, which we use for other, less complicated, but high volume products. PPW Manufacturing have good experience with Valk Welding in different companies and they strongly recommended to work with Valk Welding. We also visited truck builder Wielton in Wielun as a Valk Welding reference.” Mid 2015, Valk Welding installed a Panasonic TL-1800WG3 robot on an H-Frame, a tested
and reliable concept of robotic system, and a DTPS offline programming package. Leszek Sawicki: “Offline programming was new for us but it is a very useful tool.” Based on success of Progress delivering to Ålö, more contracts for deliveries of the compo-nents and sub-assemblies was concluded. “We will make around 13,000 components and sub-assemblies in 2016 but expect to reach 75,000 in 2017. For that reason we ordered two more welding robots. A 2nd one is already installed, a 3rd one will be supplied end of 2016. Next year we will invest into a 4th one”, thus Leszek Sawicki. The growth of Progress business has been so rapid that a new factory will be built together with Robert Mazurkiewicz, who joins the business as technical director.
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