KASTO Opens New Facility in China
The new subsidiary will ensure fast and direct service as well as providing comprehensive consultancy services in the growing Chinese market.
Posted: June 21, 2018
KASTO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. (Achern, Germany) is further expanding their global presence. With a formal ceremony, the sawing and storage specialist opened their new sales and service center in Taicang, north-east of the People’s Republic of China, north-west of Shanghai. The opening was attended by numerous customers and business partners from the whole of China as well as government representatives and three members of the company’s board.
The new subsidiary will ensure fast and direct service as well as providing comprehensive consultancy services in the growing Chinese market. At the same time, the regional and linguistic proximity to the customer is a major benefit. In the future, sawing and storage solutions will be demonstrated, digital solutions presented, and test cuts carried out in a well-equipped showroom. Armin Stolzer, Ruth Stolzer and Jonathan Riegel from the company’s board of directors came from Achern, Germany to attend. According to presentations from Armin Stolzer and Riegel, the conditions in Taicang are ideal: it is conveniently situated, has connections to container port and airport, and the local cluster, particularly of South German companies, is large. All this creates the ideal prerequisite for their objective of successfully supporting customers in the implementation of Industry 4.0 structures, which are also aspired to in China.
As an example, Jonathan Riegel cited automatic, energy-efficient and above all networkable storage solutions, sawing and handling concepts which make decisions autonomously, and modern software solutions which are optimally matched to the customers’ systems. The presentation also addressed highly topical subjects such as augmented reality by showing how technologies such as Microsoft HoloLens or Apple’s ARkit transfer planning work and after-sales service to the digital age. Guests were subsequently able to interactively experience both solutions in a virtual showroom.
Along with the traditional dragon dance and the formal touch-ball ceremony, the opening agenda included live presentations of storage and sawing concepts. Customers and users were therefore able to take a close look at the KASTOecostore 1.2 and UNIBLOC storage solutions as well as the various semi and fully automatic sawing machines.
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