In many ways, Mazak’s technology and the impact it has had on our customer’s success best defines the Mazak brand. No other laser manufacturer has done more to increase efficiency and productivity that improves our customer’s economic strength.

For EP Draffin, an Australian owned and operated manufacturer located in Bayswater Victoria, adaptation has been the cornerstone of the company’s success. Before the company was established, their founder Mr. Eddie Draffin was involved in the manufacture of a vast range of historically significant products, often as a direct result of social or cultural circumstances. Today, Draffin is primarily involved in the production of street, parkland and community furniture, a market that the company was keen to enter for its broader business potential. As a metal fabricating shop, Draffin produces various products used in the wider community.

Mazak’s new STX Mk III is a flexible, rugged workhorse designed to offer significant technical advantages and standard features for a variety of material types and thicknesses.
The Mark III has been designed utilising Mazak’s proven hybrid platform with an easy access table. It features a proprietary vibration dampening frame and integrated laser resonator that ensure stable, high accuracy cutting. The constant-beam length construction provides uniform cutting performance across the machine table.

With its unique 5 axis head, 4kW continuous laser output, 300mm cutting diameter with a maximum cutting thickness of 22mm, 12 metre material length capability with auto load and unload, the Fabri Gear offered the greatest range of processing opportunities on the market. No other laser processing machine offers true 5 axis cutting with a total of 24 controlled axes as the Fabri Gear does, and with its huge cutting area, Laser Central has a sharp edge on its competition.