Initially, centres for cutting, milling, drilling and marking PVC profiles emerged in response to the need to boost productivity and competitiveness in the face of increasingly fierce competition. Thus, companies that adopted a development strategy based on increasing production capacity soon realised that they could also achieve cost reductions by eliminating the need for a large number of operators, which explains why large companies can offer lower prices (of course, this is only one of the factors; preferential pricing for raw materials being another important factor). 

In the Romanian market, this equipment has become in demand, in addition to the aforementioned aspect, due to the fact that companies are facing a severe shortage of skilled staff, or worker migration, and are beginning to realise that they can avoid the stress and expenses associated with employees by replacing 2–3–4 operators with a single machine