Guaranteed gains with the 5-axes machining centre Breton Contourfive + lathe!

Breton Contourfive NC 700

Hello,
If you're looking for a 5-axes machining center with its own lathe to produce columns, capitels, vases, sculpture and architectural pieces for restauration work?
You've come to the right place!The Breton Contourfive is a machining centre with 5 interpolated axes specifically designed for workshops producing pieces made from natural and engineered stone. 
It is ideal for restauration work.

Breton Contourfive NC 1000

Thanks to its vertical travel of 700/1000/1200mm (27.6/39.4/47.2"), Breton Contourfive is the ideal machine for architectural and funerary art as well as for those processing which require a deep dishing out; it therefore offers the users the possibility of performing different and complex machining operations which would otherwise require several machines:
• shaping utilising the saw blade to get large pieces with complex shape.
• shaping and dishing out utilising millers.
• contouring utilising shaping tools.
• sawing utilising the saw blade.
• turning of columns with shaped profiles or machining of columns to create a twisted effect all along the surface (provided the lathe accessory is purchased).

Breton Contourfive NC 1200

Today in fact, after putting together some photographic material, I wanted to show you the rich range of applications the Contourfive + lathe offers for natural stone, marble, granite, engineered stone and limestone, etc.

 

 

 

 

The Breton Contourfive 5 axis CNC stone working centre's lathe can turn workpieces with the following dimensions:
- max. turning diameter = 960mm (37.8") or 1,600mm (63")
- max. workpiece length = 3,200mm (126").

For more information and prices, on the 5-axes stone working center Breton Contourfive, contact mail@breton.it.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye  
Sergio Prior

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Bonelli Graniti chooses Breton Smart-Cut 800 CNC bridge saw for its production

In the imaginary voyage between the Italian marble and granite trails it's hard to resist stopping off at Bonelli Graniti, in Fiesse in the province of Brescia. 

Bonelli is a company formed of excellent minds, skills and ideas, operating as a consolidated manufacturer and producing articles of exceptionally creativity since 1972.
To make products like the items shown in the photos clearly requires the skills of master stonemasons, but it also calls for machinery with unique characteristics, like the Breton Smart-Cut 800 bridge saw.

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This machine combines the creative goals of Breton and Bonelli Graniti, fine-tuned under the aegis of innovation and exquisitely Italian engineering excellence.
The Brescia company produces superbly sophisticated works in marble and granite in its workshops for both urban furniture and modern architectural projects.
Its distinctive feature however is its absolute mastery in engraving and funerary art. 
From granite slabs to finely crafted headstones and bas-reliefs:  Bonelli can exploit the full potential of the Smart-Cut 800, a bridge saw with a rotating head having 5 interpolated axes.

Click on the photo to see the realization

It makes no difference whether we call this machining centre a CNC milling machine or a shaping machine: 

- the table is fixed and the head rotates from 0° to 380° and can be tilted from 0 to 90°.

- The head can be equipped with ISO 40 attachment tools, allowing the use of mills and core drills. 

- And it's extremely easy to use thanks to a clear and intuitive human-machine interface.
- Ideal for all types of machining process, both for the production of small batches and large series, and for simple machining steps or highly complex shaping operations.
- The machine's engraving capabilities using a specific engraving tool allow it to produce authentic works of art, and it is precisely in this type of machining operation that Smart-Cut 800 displays its full potential.

 

Click on the photo to see the realization

The photos speak for themselves.
These complex objects would normally require the use of multiple machines:
- sawing of slabs and blocks to create workpieces, 
- shaping of blocks with a disk cutter to obtain geometrically complex parts 
- shaping and routing with milling tools.
 
The solution? Breton Smart-Cut 800! 
For technical and commercial information for Breton CNC bridge saw Smart-Cut 800, write to mail@breton.it.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior  

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NEW ADDITION! Automatic chamfer for tiles of various size with Breton bridge saws Smart-Cut

All Breton bridge saws Smart-Cut machines can be equipped with a new function allowing the chamfering of rectangular tiles before cutting them to measure.

 

When equipped with this accessory, Smart-Cut will pick up a suitable disc shaped chamfering tool from the tool magazine, measure the thickness of the slab with the same device used first to cut the grooves and then machine the chamfer to the required depth from 0.5 to 3mm.
This is an extremely useful option when working with panels of different sizes.
Manual chamfering would otherwise be the only alternative.

For technical and commercial information on the automatic chamfer on Breton bridge saws Smart-Cut, write to: mail@breton.it.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior 

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Breton SPEEDYCUT FE 800 - used bridge saw with revolving table

Speedycut FE 800 is the ideal solution for all the most common operations. It has a solid structure (steel columns included in the price), is easy to operate (control unit perfectly working) and it is equipped with lots of options (such as the automatical-turning table with omnidirectional rollers).

It is a Breton-certified second-hand machine with some very special features such as 800-mm blade, tilting spindle (up to 90°) and a motor power of 25 kW.

For info and price ask to mail@breton.it.

Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior

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Listen up some brief video interviews of our Area Manager illustrating the strengths of the exposed Breton machines at Marmomacc 2015

Hello, everybody, 

If you haven’t visited Breton booth during the last MARMOMACC in Verona, listen up some  brief video interviews  of Mr. Gerry Van Der Bas, our BretonUSA Area Manager illustrating  the strengths of the exposed Breton machines.

Enjoy it!

Breton Smart-Cut DUO - Innovative optimized cutting center for high productivity with two heads with 5 interpolated axis capability, mounted on two opposed and independent beams.

Breton WORTHY - Numerical control bridge saw with revolving head and fixed, single-piece worktable that needs no foundations.

Breton COMBICUT - Two machines in one: disk + waterjet. Numerically controlled, combined disk and Waterjet cutting centre for the production of cut to size slabs.

Breton CONTOURFIVE 1200 - Contourfive is a shaping, contouring, sawing and turning CNC centre with 5 interpolated axis for machining pieces made from marble, granite, sandstone, limestone, engineered stone and stone in general.
 

Breton CONTOURBRETON NC300 K19 - Cnc stone router, with its compact, ergonomic and appealing design, is an easy to program machining centre that was specifically developed to produce kitchen worktops, bathroom and vanity tops, tabletops etc., always offering maximum machining precision.

Lucidacoste COMET Bellani for Breton   

Comet performs the continuous shaping and polishing of profiles either flat and linear or with a regular round shape (such as bullnose, half bullnose and quarter bullnose edges, etc.), shaping of special profiles, calibration, execution of bilateral bevelled edges, drip grooves, wings and slots on horizontally placed, natural and engineered stone workpieces.

 
Breton FUEGO MULTIAXIS - New Breton machine for cutting blocks and billets using a diamond wire, ideal for producing cylindrical/tapered columns, casings for columns, shaped and rough-hewed components for interior decoration through the interpolation of up to 10 axes.


For info and price ask to mail@breton.it. 
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior

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CONTOURBRETON, boosting performance with the new all-breton made electrospindle

Our Contourbreton NC300 stone router CNC machines are now equipped with a new electrospindle entirely designed and manufactured in our Italian facility. 

With its 16KW power rating, 14.500rpm, and an impressive 30Nm torque with service factor S1, this head maximizes the performance of the entire range of Breton contouring machines. 

The electrospindle body is made of aluminum to ensure the necessary stiffness and strength, with an anodized surface treatment for optimal corrosion resistance. 

The spindle shaft is made of hardened stainless steel that runs with three front and two rear bearings using ceramic balls, which ensure an elevated thrust capacity also at high rotation speeds.

The toolholder clamping system is type HSK-B80, which offers a higher performance than its ISO counterpart.

The electrospindle is thermally stabilized by a closed loop cooling circuit connected to a chiller.

For technical and commercial information on the NEW Breton electrospindle, write to: mail@breton.it.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye 
Sergio Prior

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SMART-CUT DUO a powerful and flexible cutting line

Breton has patented a new machine: Smart-Cut DUO - innovative optimized cutting center for high productivity with two heads and two beams.

The Smart-Cut DUO is Breton's new integrated cutting line: a concentrated package of productivity, flexibility and innovation. 
Equipped with two mounted parallel beams, each including a cutting spindle and suction cups for optimization, the Smartcut Duo is completely unique in its class. 

The flexibility of this machine consists of the fact that it can work with two beams simultaneously or with a single beam. This model has a powerful software optimizer that ensures precision on the slab surface area, allowing a simple or a complex cutting cycle and a vertical or 45° cut.

Smart-Cut DUO is powerful because it can provide up to 80% higher productivity compared to a conventional single disc machine.

Smart-Cut DUO with an anthropomorphic robot  

Smart-Cut DUO outfeed can be equipped with an anthropomorphic robot which can unload the cut slabs automatically without the supervision of an operator. 
All of this is possible thanks to our privileged partnership with Optidrive, a company specialized in the development of systems with Kuka robots. 

The first machine connected to a Kuka robot will be installed at Renier in Aarschot, Belgium, a technological leader in the natural stone processing industry. 

 
"We're convinced that the future of the natural stone processing market will be played out on the reduction of wastage, optimization of machining operations, production efficiency, and reduced human intervention in the process. 

The Smartcut Duo cutting line developed by Breton, coupled to an unloading robot, is the clear winning solution that will allow our company to pursue this strategy".

For technical and commercial information on the NEW Breton Smart-Cut DUO cutting center, write to: mail@breton.it.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior 

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Breton second-hand machines Magazine

We printed the new "Breton second-hand machines Magazine" . 

For those who want to receive a copy, please send the request to mail@breton.it with the subject: “Breton second-hand machines”.

Best regards,
Sergio Prior

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Breton Journal for MARMOMACC 2015

We are finalizing the new Breton Journal with all the news for MARMOMACC 2015. 

For those who want to receive a copy, please send the request to mail@breton.it with the subject: “Breton Journal for MARMOMACC 2015”.

Breton welcomes you at MARMOMACC – Verona (Italy) from September 30th to October 3th 

Hall 4 - Stand A6 - A7 - A8 - B6 - B8 - C7 - C8  
Hall 5 - Stand C5

Best regards,
Sergio Prior

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10 Breton's wonders for Marmomacc 2015

Good morning,
You have less than one month left to visit 50°Marmomacc 2015, the most important fair in the stone-working sector that will be held in Verona, Italy (September 30 to October 3). 

Let's find out the 10 machines that Breton will exhibit in its stands

Come and see more closely:

1 - NEW PARAGON 2100
the perfect multiwire machine in a new version

2 - NEW FUEGO MULTIAXIS
the 10-axis shaping machine

3 - NEW SMARTCUT DUO
the cutting centre with 2 heads+2 beams

4 - NEW CONTOURFIVE NC 1200
5-axis working centre

5 - NEW XATURN
the polisher that breaks new grounds

6 - WORTHY
the bridge-saw that needs no foundations

7 - CONTOURBRETON NC 300 K19
the ideal machine to make kitchen tops

8 - COMBICUT DJ/NC 550
2 machines in 1: disk+Waterjet 

9 - WATERJET CLASSICA
5-axes water jet saw

10 - COMET Bellani for Breton

the edge polisher machine for straight edges.

You cannot miss the software house area, where you can test Breton's softwares, like Breton Multi Touch, and the Engineered Stone area, with the innovative Bretonstone Cement® slabs, and new types of Bretonstone® slabs.

We are waiting since Wednesday, September 30 at:
Pad. 4 - stand B6/C8  
and  
Pad. 5 - stand C5.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior

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Italian products always win!

With experience, great designers and top minds, motorbikes and machinery. 

Encapsulating Italian-made goods in a single piece of work is no easy task. Three Italian companies – Ducati, Odone Marmi and Breton – have come together to create “Fortitudo mea in levitate” (“Lightness is my strength”).

Ducati (Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A.)

Italy’s most world-famous motorcycle manufacturer. A company that still amazes us, even after 90 years, with its products of peerless style and performance.

Design
Uniqueness
Craftsmanship
Attention to detail
Technology
 Italian verve

Odone Marmi

Master stone and marble workers since 1950, from planning and design through to production and installation.

Breton 

Research, innovation and technology in machines for working marble, granite and natural and engineered stone.

What is “Fortitudo mea in levitate”?

It is a sculpture in white Carrara marble designed by Gianandrea Fabbro, Chief Designer at the Ducati Style Centre, depicting one of the company’s most recognisable models, the Panigale. 

His refined designer’s pencil has given the world the Panigale 1199 and 1299 and now this splendid marble sculpture, an award-winner at Milan Design Week 2015. It was made by Odone Marmi using a Breton Shapemill.

The work was displayed in central Milan for over a week in April, drawing huge admiring crowds outside Audi City Lab in Via Monte Napoleone, at the pulsating heart of the city’s fashion district.

Many people wondered how this gem of technology and craftsmanship could have been made. Today’s machining centres with 5 interpolated axes can create highly complex forms with different materials, including marble and granite, to bring designers’ creativity to life.

The most innovative Italian workshops, such as Angelo Odone’s, choose this kind of machine to turn marble and granite blocks into unique objects, avant-garde furnishing pieces, and veritable works of art. 

The Vercelli-based company produced the sculpture for Ducati. 

“Fortitudo mea in levitate” could only have been made using a Breton Shapemill, the "Ducati" of 5-axis machining and shaping centres for marble and granite, the queen of speed and precision. This machining centre’s impressive performance supports multiple work processes that would otherwise require several machines. Working with various tools, it can mill, turn and perform routing through its shaped tools.

Here is the official video:

 

The Ducati designer and his design, the Odone Marmi factory’s trademark craftsmanship, and Breton technology are the ingredients in a breathtaking work that emphasises the contrast between the lightness of the forms and the weight of the hefty Carrara marble blocks. 

In other words, it is a true celebration of Italian-made excellence.  

That’s all for today.
Thank you for reading.
Until next time.
Bye-bye. 
Sergio Prior

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The company Marbres&Design chooses "COMBICUT" for its workpieces

Below the highest peak of Europe, Mont Blanc, lies Saint Felix, a town belonging to the French region Rhône-Alpes where one of the most cutting-edge French stone-working companies is located.

Marbres&Design core business is the production of marble, granite, slate and engineered stone for interiors. Aiming specifically to improve its performance, some months ago, the transalpine enterprise integrated its machines with a Breton Combicut bridge-saw, which combines diamond disc and Waterjet cutting.

The group’s gem is its kitchen worktop production range. The main aim of Marbres&Design was to speed-up production and save in wasted material to be able to provide its customers with more and more complex finishes, processing a same granite slab, Dekton or Silestone, with inclined and angled cuts. 

Kitchen manufacturers are always on the lookout for excellent tops, in terms of style and function, which must be very appealing but also very resistant, so it is not so simple for marble masons to satisfy their needs. The designs become more and more sophisticated, with rounded and squared shapes that cannot be cut with conventional mills. This is why a combined cutting station is a must.

“We were looking for a multipurpose machine and we certainly found it” said the owner of the company, Benoit Fleury together with Christophe Rubin. “We are satisfied because Breton’s Combicut has really speeded up our production, also thanks to the worktop change-over accessory” Mr. Rubin confirmed. “The cutting quality is always the same, whether we are processing marble or granite. We are also processing porcelain, ceramic and quartz slabs more and more often”.  

The cutting unit of the Combicut (cutting spindle with disc and Waterjet head) turns around its A axis by ±190° (4th axis): the advantages for its owners are many and precision and cutting speed benefit too.
 

As Christophe Rubin explained, Marbres&Design has configured its Breton Combicut with the innovative automatic worktop change-over system. While the machine is cutting one slab, another slab ready for cutting can be prepared outside the machine, by programming the cutting pattern exactly. Once one worktop has been cut, it automatically changes-over the slabs to be processed, thus guaranteeing increased production rates.

For technical and commercial information on the Breton Combicut, write to: mail@breton.it.
We’ll get back to you promptly.
Thank you for the attention and best regards.
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior

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