Modern and more resistant plastic instead of heavy steel
Joaquín Orbegozo, head of electrical engineering at Gurutzpe, is convinced of the advantages of the horizontal guide "Guidelok". "The energy chain is rugged, rigid and reliable." The machine manufacturer also explains this to his customers. "Sometimes one says, I would have liked this or that machine - but with a metallic energy chain." Then Joaquín Orbegozo harps on the lighter but highly stable plastic energy chain, demonstrating that it easily tolerates even the weight of a grown-up man. When another customer has a concern that during the machining the metal hot chips could eat through the plastic, he takes the soldering iron and puts it on the energy chain there and then. "At least when customers see that this cannot damage the energy chain, they are convinced," says the electrical engineer.