PEDAX
40 years Metax rebar cutter – a retrospective
It was in the year 1980: the entire machinery and plant-engineering sector had for some time already undergone an immense transformation process. Manual work was increasingly replaced by automation and control technology. This also applied to the hard, physically demanding processing of reinforcing steel, which had initially relocated to central sites and later to shop floors.
This development had begun early in Switzerland, where the first bending operations were set up. Beginning from approximately 1960, the first central plants in Germany went into operation. At that time, measuring...
