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Biele Group is pioneer in the manufacture of stacking lines for the automotive sector, incorporating Start-Stop Stackers according to the highest standards of quality required by the automobile manufacturers OEM, TIER 1 and Metal Service Centers.

The development carried out by Biele Group for optimizing energy consumption on vacuum stackers has reduced its consumption to a third part. It implies on the one hand, the reduction of the demand for the vacuum system:

• A piece tracking system is linked to the activation of the vacuum valves, so the vacuum is only generated where the piece is located.
• The position of the blank is detected by each belt arm independently.
• The stations having been provided with independent arms, vacuum shall only be enabled on the station that requires it.
• The belts provided have been specially designed, which results in a significant reduction of air leaks crosswise to the belt of a 20%.

On the other hand, the development is aimed at optimizing the required pressure and flow, for which the system has been designed. Thus, it can be adapted according to:

• The quality of the pieces to be processed: vacuum pressure adapts to the quality of the piece to be used.
• The number of pieces to be processed.

The combination of both strategies aimed at the optimization of the energy consumption for development of the Biele Group vacuum stacker implies a low energy consumption, with the subsequent drastic reduction of the operating costs associated thereto.

Biele Group is pioneer in the manufacture of stacking lines for the automotive sector, incorporating Pusher Stackers according to the highest standards of quality required by the automobile manufacturers OEM, TIER 1 and Metal Service Centers.

Biele Group has launched a Multimode Pusher Stacker specialized in automobile components for Tailor Welded Blanks. This stacker enables fully automatic processing of the blanks that shall be subsequently used in the Laser Welding process.   

This type of pieces, usually aimed at structural automobile components, may come out from the press at a rate of 1, 2 or even 4 pieces per stroke, either in-line or in parallel.  In order to manage these multiple, possible piece configurations, the conveyors between the press and the stacking zone, as well as the stacker belts, must run in start-stop mode.

Piece management in the stacking zone allows full flexibility in terms of possible piece combinations on the pallets, enabling to stack up to 32 pieces on the same pallet with different row – column combinations.  

The pusher system not having been provided with centring stops, prevents potential damages on piece edges.  

As an international group committed to development, we are currently present in more than 50 countries. Biele Group, with production plants in Europe and subsidiary in USA provides assistance for all their installations located in almost all industrialized countries over the world.

Biele Group is pioneer in the manufacture of Packaging lines for Metal Sheets and Plates for various customers associated to the Steel, Stainless Steel and Aluminum industry. 

Biele Group has also specialized in the design and manufacture of stackers and it is in position to implement them if required in combination with packaging lines.

The corporate group supplies tailor made packaging lines for Aluminum sheets and plates for the automotive and aeronautic industry, where the standards of quality required for the sheets and the quality of the stacking are highly demanding.  

In order to ensure the quality of the Aluminium components according to the requirements of the aeronautic sector, Biele has developed a system which allows an accurate measuring and control of the pieces to be packed:

• Material thickness through a laser measuring system.
• Sheet squaring and dimensions. An artificial vision system determines the squaring of the 4 sheet corners as well as length and width.   
• Sheet flatness. By a granite table on the line. A granite bridge provided with laser sensors determines the flatness of the Aluminum surface.

Biele has also developed by purpose, a machine for full isolation of the aluminum stack against moisture.

As an international group committed to development Biele Group, with production plants in Europe and subsidiary in USA provides assistance for all their installations located in almost all industrialized countries over the world.

Biele Group is pioneer in the manufacture of stacking lines for automobile components by Robots, that has specialized in the design and manufacture of stackers aimed at the automotive sector.

Since 2012 Biele Group supplies robot stackers specialized in automobile internal components that processes with the utmost flexibility existing in the market in a fully automatic mode.

Steel or Aluminum blanks from blanking lines with one or several pieces per stroke, going out from same or different sides of the press can be re-positioned from nesting, turned over in line and stacked with any orientation on pallets.

Lately, Biele Group has developed a universal motor-driven gripper that enables adding a new value to the robot stacker. The universal gripper implemented on new robot stackers enables adapting to any structural component regardless of the shape and size automatically synchronized with the pre-centring system. Investment in new grippers and storage for these is no longer required, with saving on the space required and costs.

Biele Group’s Universal grippers, being motor-driven, allow a rapid and automatic change between references, in less than 3 minutes.

Being universal, a same gripper may be exchanged on any installation. To this end, our team of engineering professionals, all over the world, provides training and assistance to our customers.

As an international group, with production plants in Europe and subsidiaries in USA, provides assistance for all their installations located in almost all industrialized countries over the world.