The Original PFT D6-3 twister rotor and stator is more like £ 75 .00 And it is the best on the market by about 30% . To be clear on this This is not an opinion of any dealer or end user this is a fact based on 1000's of hours of testing.
PFT are the main supplier of plastering machines to the world and have a R & D development department. They are constantly reviewing their own products and machines aswell as competitors to ensure their brand is always ahead of the competition.
KTO is a company that used to produce and supply M tek with rotors and stators for their new machines. These are good quality rotors and stators and were proved to be the closest in quality to PFT even though PFT performed 30 % more efficiently.
To give you a scale of how committed PFT are to having the best Brand they Bought KTO. Unfortunately because M tek are direct competition PFT do not deal with M tek who have found another supplier. And of course PFT have tested their new suppliers rotors and stators.
We all have our opinions on the best machines and thats how it should be, mine is PFT is the best and if it wasn't the company would buy the best and rebrand it as their own.
If you're choosing a machine for yourself, look at how often it will be moved around, how many people will be available to move it and how can it return an investment most efficiently. What labour can it replace, youre saving will be on total man hours needed to complete the job not how mts you do a day
Good post Ian, but to be honest I am struggling to see any facts without the proof. This would be interesting to see as we have seen very different results and continue to do so within the market place.
This is also a very easy statistic for PFT or yourself to suggest.
Another PFT Dealer also mentioned the D,6-3 retailed at £86.00 to the UK Market opposed to your £75.00.
There are also major differences between the M-Tec range of R/S and the PFT ones. For example the most common in the PFT line is the D6-3 used on 3 Phase machines whereas M-tec's is the Unistar which has a completely different output.
There is no denying PFT produce a fantastic range of machines and they are part of a multi million € company (Knauf). They have a lot going for them and will continue to be a very strong market player for the foreseeable future. But, there are competitors or manufacturers out there who in some areas can out perform them or can match them. The market is a very large one and not one brand dominate. Yes, PFT have been going the longest and the G4 is the most well known machine but things do change.
With regards to the KTO situation; KTO in fact made a very small range of Rotors and stators for M-tec. Their main range come from another, very well established and long serving manufacturer in Germany.
To my knowledge PFT have never been a manufacturer of Rotors and Stators and they used KTO for the supply of the well known Original D6-3. KTO then fell into serious financial difficulty and at this point PFT realised with the loss of them, it could affect their business therefore made the decision to purchase KTO. Therefore it wasn't a decision or a commitment to purchase the best brand but a requirement. Please correct me if I am wrong here, but this is information we have received. I believe when KTO spoke to us at the UK Concrete show this was also mentioned
To my knowledge KTO have always produced the D,6-3 for PFT, if KTO also produced for M-tec (as you suggest) then how do PFT have a R/S which outperforms the rest by 30% if they are made in the same place?
If this isn't the case, then why did PFT purchase the best brand of R/S as you suggest if theirs already outperforms it by 30% - it contradicts the whole statement you make?
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