Increased capacity at Barrett Steel’s C Roberts plant in Rotherham

The new plasma drill processor is designed for wide plates up to 200mm thick, making it suitable for the manufacture of bridges and viaducts, agricultural and earth moving machinery, mining equipment and other heavy structural st e el operations. It enables the main operations required in the steel construction industry such as drilling, milling, pointing, tapping, marking, scribing and plasma/oxy cutting to be carried out in one step.

Benefits include: greater precision; increased productivity; reduced overall dimensions; reduced material handling with the opportunity to unload finished parts while the machine is still processing; high processing speed; and nesting optimisation.

Tom Barrett, Branch Manager at C. Roberts, comments: “C. Roberts is already a well established general steel stockholder that has recently invested in steel plate stocks and machinery.

“The addition of the new Ficep, which makes cutting intricate shapes out of plate, tapping holes, marking, pointing, milling and hard stamping sheet quicker and easier, is an excellent bolt-on to our current stockholding and cutting facilities.

“As well as cutting lead times the line should be more efficient, saving our customers both time and money.”

Installation of the new machine is also anticipated to offer further job opportunities at the Rotherham plant.