Italian engineering since 1947 · Built for North America
Cut it once.Cut it right.
Automatic, high-speed industrial bandsaws for bar, plate, slab, block, coil and ring — manufactured start to finish in our plant in Italy. Engineered for customers that need production and durability.
Machines
The Cutting Portfolio
Filter by what you cut, how you cut it, and how big it is. Every machine has its own page with full capacity tables and a downloadable spec sheet.
Why Friggi
Four Things Worth Checking
Four claims you can check yourself.
Heavier by design
Vibration costs accuracy, speed and blade life. Our machines are engineered to eliminate cutting vibration, which optimizes blade life against speed and accuracy.
GANTRY 3500: 61,000 kg / 134,482 lb. Compare the weight column against your other quote.
Made in Italy, including the machining
Designed, machined, assembled and tested in one plant. Nothing subcontracted.
It is why tolerance holds in year three, not just at commissioning.
Built to your material
When the job falls outside the standard sizes, we build the machine around it.
5100 mm / 201 in for nuclear. 14,000 mm / 551 in for plate. Both documented.
Cut without repositioning
Rotating blade guides take vertical, horizontal, angle and radius cuts in one setup.
Took 60% out of one aerospace customer's milling time.
Cold Cutting
Why Cold Cut?
Need to cut cold due to energy restrictions or avoid heat affected zones? A bandsaw removes material without adding heat. This could be a customer requirement, a decision based on energy consumption, or simply a preference when cutting high-value materials.
- Material properties preserved. No heat-affected zone and no change to the crystalline structure — the mechanical performance you specified is the mechanical performance you get.
- Lower energy per cut than the thermal process when you need it.
- Better edge finish is very typical and can help reduce downstream machining, or remove it altogether.
- Safe in sensitive environments. No heat generation, when cold cutting is the only acceptable method — in nuclear work, for example.
- Dry cutting available, leaving no oil residue on the cut face to carry into the next operation.
See it in production
A steel producer replaced thermal cutting on 14,000 mm / 551 in special steel plate. No thermal alteration, lower energy cost, better edge finish and less post-processing.
Customers
What Our Customers Are Saying
Friggi sales and support have been great to work with. Understanding of the machine and what we do makes getting answers very simple. They work with us on every issue we have ever had regardless of the reason why it happened. We are very happy with the support we receive and thus is the reason why we currently have another Friggi machine on order.
Between pricing, lead time and general communication, Vista Metals was satisfied with the whole package — they really back their product.
We needed a saw in a short amount of time. We were faced with 6–9 month delivery with another saw manufacturer but Friggi had the piece of equipment we wanted ready to go.
Our Friggi saw is probably the most profitable machine tool in our company. The Friggi has helped us gain competitive edge but the key thing the machine does is significantly reduce our roughing hours.
Pre-manufacturing questions answered fast and customizations were easy, tailored to our exact needs. The service technician is the best field service tech we have ever dealt with across all our machines. Set up and modifications have been flawless. Responsiveness from your whole team is unmatched.
Saw Selector
Tell Us What You Cut
Tick what applies. The range narrows as you go — leave a question blank if it doesn't matter.
Nothing here quite fits?
Most Friggi installations are configured to the job. Send us the material and the dimensions and an application specialist will come back with options.
Machines / AST
AST
The strength of this vertical sliding-bow saw is the deep reach of the blade-holder bow: wide plate gets cross-cut with a smaller blade than a horizontal saw would need, because the machine always cuts the shorter side. Sturdy rollers support the material and feed it to size. Semi-automatic or automatic, all movements on brushless motors.
Highlights
Key Features
- Cross-cuts wide plate with a smaller blade
- Roller table supports and feeds the material
- Semi-automatic or automatic versions
- Brushless cutting and positioning movements
- Precise alignment
Technical Data
Standard Machine Specifications
| Size | Cutting capacity | Blade | Blade speed | Motor | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1200x400 | 1200 throat / 400 vert mm47.2 / 15.7 in | 6890 × 34 × 1.1 mm271 × 1.34 × 0.043 in | 10–100 m/min33–328 SFM | 5.5 kW7.4 HP | 5,500 kg12,125 lb |
| 1500x600 | 1500 throat / 600 vert mm59.1 / 23.6 in | 9370 × 54 × 1.3 mm369 × 2.13 × 0.051 in | 10–100 m/min33–328 SFM | 18.5 kW24.8 HP | 22,300 kg49,163 lb |
| 2000x600 | 2000 throat / 600 vert mm78.7 / 23.6 in | 10600 × 54 × 1.3 mm417 × 2.13 × 0.051 in | 10–100 m/min33–328 SFM | 18.5 kW24.8 HP | 23,000 kg50,706 lb |
| 2500x1000 | 2500 throat / 1000 vert mm98.4 / 39.4 in | 10900 × 67 × 1.6 mm429 × 2.64 × 0.063 in | 10–100 m/min33–328 SFM | 20.5 kW27.5 HP | 28,000 kg61,729 lb |
4 standard sizes. Metric figures as published by the factory; imperial equivalents calculated. Confirm against the spec sheet before quoting.
Nothing here quite fits?
Most Friggi installations are configured to the job. Send us the material and the dimensions and an application specialist will come back with options.
Questions
AST — Frequently Asked Questions
What materials does the AST cut?
The AST is built for cutting steel and aluminum.
What stock shapes can the AST handle?
It is configured for block and slab stock.
Is the AST a horizontal or vertical bandsaw?
The AST is a vertical bandsaw, available in automatic and semi-automatic versions.
What is the cutting capacity of the AST?
Standard sizes cover 16–98 in (400–2,500 mm) across 4 standard sizes. Confirm against the factory specification sheet before quoting.
How do I get a quote for the AST?
Request a quote online, call Friggi America at (519) 421-9291 or email sales@friggiamerica.com with your material, largest cross-section and volume.
Where It Works
Industries
Industries
Find Your Industry
A forge shop and an aerospace machine shop want completely different things from a saw. These pages let a buyer recognize their own operation before they look at a single model number.
Main Applications
Related Products
Machines for This Sector
Cutting something in this sector?
Send us the material and the dimensions and an application specialist will come back with options.
Case Studies
Machines in Production
Installations built to solve a specific cutting problem. Each one started as a conversation about material and dimensions rather than a model number.
North America
What Our Customers Are Saying
Friggi sales and support have been great to work with. Understanding of the machine and what we do makes getting answers very simple. They work with us on every issue we have ever had regardless of the reason why it happened. We are very happy with the support we receive and thus is the reason why we currently have another Friggi machine on order.
Between pricing, lead time and general communication, Vista Metals was satisfied with the whole package — they really back their product.
We needed a saw in a short amount of time. We were faced with 6–9 month delivery with another saw manufacturer but Friggi had the piece of equipment we wanted ready to go.
Our Friggi saw is probably the most profitable machine tool in our company. The Friggi has helped us gain competitive edge but the key thing the machine does is significantly reduce our roughing hours.
Pre-manufacturing questions answered fast and customizations were easy, tailored to our exact needs. The service technician is the best field service tech we have ever dealt with across all our machines. Set up and modifications have been flawless. Responsiveness from your whole team is unmatched.
Cutting something similar?
Send us the material and the dimensions and an application specialist will come back with options.
Project Overview
Technology
Machines on This Project
Cutting something similar?
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Resources
Watch the Machines Cut
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Machine demonstrations across the range — steel, aluminum, titanium and exotic alloys, cut on camera.
Downloads
Spec sheets
One PDF per machine family, kept in sync with the capacity tables on this site. Currently none exist — this is the largest single content gap.
Downloads
Product catalog
Full range in one document. Gate it behind name and email so you know who is looking.
Company
Certifications
ISO certificates and quality policy, downloadable. Buyers in nuclear and aerospace ask for these during qualification.
Parts & Service
Down machine? Start here.
Today this is one paragraph telling people to send an email. A structured request means the information arrives complete the first time — no back-and-forth while a saw sits idle.
Machine down right now?
Complete the form and send it to sales@friggiamerica.com. Factory-trained technicians, parts in stock, and a request that arrives with everything we need to act on it.
Custom Configuration
Customize My Machine
Tell us the material and the dimensions you need to cut. We build to spec, so there is no wrong answer here — the numbers matter more than the machine name.
Prefer to talk it through?
Call (519) 421-9291 and ask for sales. If you already know roughly what you need, the fastest route is often a five-minute phone call.
About
Eighty Years of Cutting Metal
Friggi has been building saws in Italy since 1947 and cutting metal with them since 1975. Friggi America has served the North American market since 2001 — the machines are Italian, the support is local.
What We Do
We design and build bandsaws for companies that cut metal in volume and cannot afford to stop. Steel, aluminum, titanium and exotic alloys. Bar, plate, block, slab, coil and ring. From a job-shop vertical to the largest gantry saw built anywhere.
Everything is engineered, machined, assembled and tested in Carugate, outside Milan. That matters more than it sounds: the castings and machined surfaces that determine whether a saw holds tolerance three years from now are made in-house, not bought in.
Friggi earns its place where the material is heavy, the alloy is difficult, the tolerance is tight, or the machine has to run unattended through the night — and where cost per cut over ten years matters more than the number on the purchase order.
History
Firsts, Not Anniversaries
A company timeline is usually a list of birthdays. This one is a list of machines nobody had built before.
Founded in Italy
The Friggi Group is founded, building saws for cutting wood.
Group
Part of the Soitaab Group
Friggi joined Soitaab in 2010. Soitaab has been designing and building metal cutting systems in Italy since 1939, and is one of very few companies anywhere that develops every major cutting technology in-house — oxyfuel, plasma, waterjet, laser and bandsaw.
For a buyer, that has one practical consequence: when the right answer to your problem is not a bandsaw, the group can say so and supply the alternative. And when a machine has to be built to spec rather than picked from a catalog, the engineering depth to do it is in the same building.
Show me what Soitaab has to offer ↗
Want to talk to someone in North America?
Factory-trained service, parts in stock, and an application specialist who knows the range.
Machines / Compare
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Side by Side
Capacity, blade, motor and weight across the range you selected. Figures span every standard size in each family.
Ranges cover the smallest to largest standard size in each family. Metric figures as published by the factory; imperial equivalents calculated.
Still deciding?
Send us the material and the dimensions and an application specialist will come back with a recommendation.
Request a Quote
Talk to an Application Specialist
Tell us what you cut and how much of it. An application specialist reviews the job against the range and comes back with the right configuration.
FRIGGI AMERICA
Unit 14, 1033 Pattullo Ave
Woodstock, ON N4V 1C8
(519) 421-9291
sales@friggiamerica.com
Dealer portal
Sign in
Register your opportunities, track approvals and protect your commission on every deal you bring to Friggi.
demo@dealer.com and friggi2026 to see a populated dashboard, or create an account to walk through sign-up.For the developer — what this portal needs server-side
Accounts and authentication
- Dealer accounts must be approval-gated. Self-registration creates a pending account; a Friggi administrator verifies the dealer agreement and territory before the account is activated. Do not grant portal access on sign-up alone.
- Passwords stored with a modern slow hash (bcrypt, scrypt or Argon2id) and a per-user salt. Never plaintext, never reversible encryption, never MD5/SHA-1. The demo on this page stores the password in plain JavaScript — that is a demo shortcut and must not be copied.
- Minimum 10 characters, screened against a breached-password list. Length beats forced symbol rules (NIST SP 800-63B).
- TLS everywhere, HttpOnly + Secure + SameSite session cookies, server-side session expiry, rate limiting and lockout after repeated failures.
- Offer two-factor authentication at least for Principal-role users; commission data and competitor intelligence sit behind this login.
Password recovery
- The “forgot password” response must be identical whether or not the address exists, so the form cannot be used to discover which dealers are registered.
- Reset links: single-use, cryptographically random, expiring in 30–60 minutes, invalidated when used or when a new one is issued. Never email the password itself.
- Notify the account holder by email whenever the password changes.
Lead registration rules Friggi must set
- Protection period. This demo uses 180 days. Industry guidance puts hardware and capital equipment at 180–270 days, and the window should cover the real average sales cycle. Friggi should set this against its own cycle length, and may tier it by dealer level.
- Approval SLA. Publish it and hold to it — one business day is the channel benchmark; 2–5 days is typical in hardware. A registration left silent is worse than one declined.
- Conflict rules. First valid registration wins, with a documented override where a later registrant can show genuine engagement. Territory- and account-level duplicate detection should run at submission, not after.
- Commission. The rate shown in this demo is a placeholder. Friggi sets the real rate, whether it is tiered by dealer level or deal size, and whether it is paid on order or on collection.
- Extensions. Allow a renewal request with evidence of ongoing activity, and send automated warnings before expiry.
Integration
- Submissions should create a record in whatever CRM Friggi uses, and notify the responsible regional manager by email at the moment of submission.
- Statuses set by Friggi internally must flow back to the dealer’s dashboard — a portal the dealer cannot see status in will not be used twice.
- Role-based access within a dealer account (Principal, Sales, Service) so a salesperson sees their own registrations and the principal sees the branch.
- Export to CSV, and an audit trail on every status change.
Lead registration
Register an opportunity
Registering protects your position on this customer for 180 days once approved, and puts Friggi behind you on the quotation. The more Friggi knows about the cut, the faster the right machine and the right price come back.