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Kasto opens site in China
Saw and storage specialist Kasto opened its new sales and service location in Taicang in the east of the People's Republic of China, northwest of Shanghai, with a festive ceremony on May 15, 2018. The opening was attended by numerous customers and business partners from all over China as well as government representatives and three members of the Kasto Group management team.
The new subsidiary aims to provide a fast and direct service as well as comprehensive consulting services in the growing Chinese market. Both local and linguistic proximity to the customer is a major advantage. In 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 Kasto management team traveled all the way from Achern. In their keynote speeches, Armin Stolzer and Jonathan Riegel explained the choice of location and presented projects and visions.
The Taicang location offers ideal framework conditions thanks to its convenient location, connection to the container port and airport, and the local cluster, especially of southern German companies, is large. The standard of training in the region is correspondingly high. All of this creates the ideal conditions for the company's goal of successfully supporting its customers in the implementation of Industry 4.0 structures, which is also a goal in China.
As an example, Jonathan Riegel mentioned automatic, energy-efficient and, above all, networkable storage solutions, sawing and handling concepts that make decisions autonomously and modern software solutions that are optimally adapted to customer systems. The presentation also addressed highly topical issues such as augmented reality, showing how technologies such as Microsoft HoloLens or Apple's ARkit are transferring planning work and after-sales service into the digital age. The guests were then able to experience both solutions interactively in a virtual showroom.
In addition to the traditional dragon dance and the festive touch ball ceremony, live demonstrations of storage and sawing concepts were on the opening agenda. Customers and users were able to take a closer look at the KASTOecostore 1.2 and UNIBLOC storage solutions, as well as various semi-automatic and fully automatic sawing machines. kp
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