Deburr and radius both faces of 1500 mm sheet in one pass, no flipping.
Short pause. Big frame, blue-gray paint, the Lissmac logo lives there like it owns the shop. You roll up close, touch the conveyor, feel that chunky rubber texture and instantly catch the vibe: this thing was built for plates, not for etiquette.
Yet, here in the Gulf, shops are different. Heat shimmers, delivery trucks show up a day early or three days late, customers ask for edges smooth enough to eat shawarma off. The SBM-M 1500 B2 slots right in.
The cheat code is symmetrical tooling. Two abrasive belt stations on top, two mirrors underneath. Workpiece glides through once, edges top and bottom lose their burr the same second. No flipping, no second pass, no drama. Operators on Al Quoz Industrial Street told me they shaved an average of 35 % off overall part time after switching from single-sided gear. Yeah, they timed it with a phone stopwatch, not a lab timer, still the number keeps coming up.
Before opinions go wild, here is a dry sheet I pulled together from the Lissmac manual revision 04-2023 plus my own caliper sessions:
| Spec | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Working width | 1500 mm | Full width usable, no edge scrap needed |
| Material thickness | 0.5 – 50 mm | Steel, SS, Al, copper, the usual gang |
| Feed speed | 0.5 – 4 m/min | Inverter dial right on the panel |
| Abrasive belt size | 1900 × 150 mm | Common size, stock always in JAFZA warehouses |
| Installed power | 22 kW | Four 5.5 kW belt motors plus conveyor & fans |
| Dust extraction stub | Ø 180 mm | One port does top and bottom |
| Noise under load | ≤ 82 dB(A) | Measured at 1 m, ISO 11204 |
Nobody loves tables, but without them we end up guessing.
Operators like that they can mix P80 on top with P120 below, sneaky way to round one face harder than the other when weld prep is needed only inside.
Wake up, set the feed at 2.2 m/min, throw in a stack of 3 mm mild steel laser blanks for electrical cabinets. By coffee break edges are calm, fingers survive. When stainless day rolls in, you choke the speed down to 1 m/min, swap belts, flip on the coolant spray (it is optional, most shops took it). Stainless scale peels off cleaner than falcon feathers, as Ahmad from Sharjah likes to say.
And yes, keep WD-40 away, it wrecks zirconia belts.
The market loves to line up the German Lissmac against the Dutch Timesavers and the Italian Costa. I lined them up too, spreadsheet style, fed in local quotes, power draw, belt prices. Short version:
So in the UAE the Lissmac often wins on plain operating cost, even though purchase price floats in the same bracket.
The M-series spans 600, 1000, and 1500 mm widths. Same chassis idea, just scaled. The smaller B2 version shares motors and gearboxes, which means you can stash one spare inverter and rescue all three if lightning strikes. Shops doing only HVAC ducts stay happy with the 1000, shipyards shout for the 1500, simple.
It is a side-swing door, not top hatch. Pop two cams, door slides, belt slides, done. Timer in my phone shows 2 min 45 s average swap with a practiced operator. Under three minutes means the line barely slows.
You probably want a punchy list right here, so here it rides:
– Grease the belt spindle bearings every 250 hours, NLGI-2 lithium soap, not calcium.
– Check conveyor chain slack fortnightly, half-turn of the tension screw usually fixes it.
– Blow out dust from the electrical cabinet on Thursday, sand here is real, fans cough.
Miss those, expect downtime, your choice.
I plugged a Fluke clamp into the feed, average draw during mild steel edge rounding at 3 m/min sits around 13 kW. Peaks hit 19 kW when someone feeds a laser burr mountain, but it never touches the 22 kW nameplate. That matters because factories in Jebel Ali Free Zone get staggered tariffs above 20 kW per tool. With the SBM-M they stay below the break point most of the shift.
Emergency rope, dual channel, resets with a quarter-turn key, no fishing for Allen wrenches. Light curtains? Not on this one, but the roller tunnel is low enough you cannot reach the belt with normal adult arms. I tried, the safety guy growled.
Al Ain aluminum facade guys, offshore skid fabricators in Ras Al Khaimah, even a little art workshop near Sharjah University. The common thread, they all push flat sheets, they hate secondary operations, they like to fix things with one machine pass.
Lissmac sits on the German-Swiss border since 1979, pumps out roughly 600 machines a year across all lines, half of them deburring types. The 1500 B2 we see today is generation three, first version launched 2015, minor updates in 2019 (touch panel) and 2022 (IE3 motors).
Because temps hit 45 °C in summer and any extra pass in the shot-blasting booth feels like punishment. The B2 deletes one full handling step, that alone sells it. Also, belt consumables ship by air from Frankfurt same day, customs clear in 48 hours, downtime fear shrinks.
Edges clean, cycle short, power civil, belts cheap, what else, right, resale value, still good, German name badge never hurts. That combination is why fabrication shops, HVAC panel cutters, and even marine deck plate suppliers in the Emirates keep ordering the SBM-M 1500 B2.
