Striebig celebrates 50 years of the vertical panel saw

In 1961, John F. Kennedy became the President of the USA and the Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space. The very same year, Swiss master joiner Ludwig Striebig revolutionised sawing. He registered his patent for a "Device for cutting major structural plates to size or for cutting sections therefrom" - heralding the birth of the vertical panel saw. The success story of the Striebig Standard began with Model 68. It was technically light years ahead of the rest of the market, and the current Standard is still the world's best-selling vertical panel saw. Striebig, who died in 1995, was a practical craftsman, a brilliant problem solver and a visionary inventor all in one. His revolutionary principle transformed material handling in the workshop and made the work of the woodworker much easier. Thanks to his innovative ideas the panel saw developed from an original, simple basic cutting tool to a high-precision, automatic sizing and cutting machine. From the middle of the 1950s, the large size chipboard panel took over the European market. This initially meant strenuous work for the operator in order to cut the panels to the required format.

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