In 1948, Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH (www.kannegiesser.co.uk) started production in a wooden shed near Vlotho, Germany, with just four employees — making ironing machines for the garment industry.

Today, it has 10 subsidiaries in different countries and offers a full range of industrial laundry equipment; this includes washer extractors, continuous tunnel washer systems, moisture extraction presses, dryers, feeders, ironers and folders, plus garment-sorting and tunnel-finishing systems.

At its Banbury (UK) plant, the company specialises in producing the Supertrack Monorail System, which has been designed to transport soiled laundry through all of the necessary laundry processes, working in harmony with the entire range of Kannegiesser laundry equipment.

The stainless-steel monorail tracks were previously cut to the required length by means of a hydraulic saw that relied on a manual feed system.

In order to simplify the production process, as well as increase the efficiency and throughput, Kannegiesser turned to sawing specialist Prosaw (www.prosaw.co.uk) for the complete sawing and material-handling solution.

The company recommended a Bomar 290.250 DGA bandsaw, which features automatic programming in order to eliminate the possibility of manual errors, while simultaneously simplifying the sawing process and increasing efficiency.

Prosaw also designed and produced a purpose-built mechanical handling system in order to automatically introduce the lengths of track stock into the bandsaw, thus greatly simplifying the in-feed part of the process.