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News Release from: Stephenson Gobin | Subject: Isliker solenoids
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Team on 19 June 2003
Solenoids provide 22 years of service
GWK has been using Isliker solenoids for 22 years in its range of automatic sheet stackers.
Manufacturing boss Mike King is a genial, pragmatic character, who works hard and expects hard work from the components he buys to build stacker machines for the printing industry Some solenoids are expected to respond to a demand to operate on very large machines which palletise up to 12,000 sheets of material an hour
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The reliability of the solenoid is crucial to King's business which started 22 years' ago.
The solenoid is no less important today than it was in the early 1980's when the first solenoid he designed into a stacker machine at his factory in Worthing, Sussex, was made by Isliker and supplied by Stephenson Gobin.
It was one of the first applications for an Isliker solenoid in the UK.
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Isliker and Stephenson Gobin have been working together with Mike King ever since and King is now designing the third generation of stackers with the 70mm 24V solenoid an integral part of the manufacture.
It's a remarkable relationship which has stood the test of time because the Swiss made solenoids, without fail, don't let King down - even when they have been performing 3600 operations hour after hour, day after day.
The GWK boss has nothing but praise for the Isliker solenoids and the service he receives from Stephenson Gobin who first knocked on his door 22 years ago.
Since then GWK Engineering has designed and manufactured more than 600 stacker machines which range in price from GBP 7000 to 16,000.
"I am more than happy with the reliability of the Isliker solenoid as supplied to me by Stephenson Gobin and will continue to use them as long as we are making stackers", said King.
"Reliability is a key feature of our stacker machines and it follows that the two solenoids we design into every machine - irrespective of its size - have to work equally as reliably.
We export stackers to printing machine manufacturers across the whole of Europe as well as America and I can't afford to have a failure in any of these countries".
"We are now replacing the stackers we manufactured 22 years' ago as customers continue to come back to us because they are satisfied with the reliability - of the machines and the solenoids".
"As a matter of policy we are constantly upgrading the stackers and making them even safer".
The key features of the GWK automatic sheet stackers are simplicity and reliability.
It's Mike King's philosophy that the stacker should be simple to operate and have fewer and fewer moving parts.
The sheet stacker sits on the end of a printing line in readiness able to stack 3 x 2 x 1m sheets of plastic, paper, carton or card before they are cut and creased and finally packed.
The solenoids work on a jogging system, pushing the sheets into line through the jogging system operates on three sides of the machine.
As the first sheet arrives into the stacker, the joggers open to allow the sheet in.
Once the sheet has passed through the joggers - operated by a photoelectric eye - they automatically close behind.
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