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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Do you work vases and artistic objects? Breton Shapemill is the machine for you!

Hello everybody,
we’re ready for the holidays!
Today I show you a series of photos about the realization of a beautiful vase, on the lathe of CNC working centre for stone Breton Shapemill.

It’s wonderful, true?
Only with Breton Shapemill you can shape complex executions as this vase.
If you’re interested at CNC milling centre Breton Shapemill, at the end of this page you’ll find more works.
For more information on the Breton Shapemill, and prices, 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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Machine to shape and polish straight edges MICRON Bellani

Good morning,
Today I would like to show you our shaping/polishing machine Mod. “MICRON Bellani for Breton” at work.
 




 
Here below please find all the specifications of the machine.
For price of MICRON, 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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