Wherever steel-reinforced concrete is built, concrete reinforcing steel must be cut and bent. Cutting is thereby particularly important, because downstream production machines must be supplied flexibly and at exact times with pre-cut concrete reinforcing steel and waiting times must be avoided at all costs. A distinction is made between mobile and stationary concrete reinforcing steel bar cutting plants. Whereas mobile bar cutting machines that move transversely in front of a store are mostly used in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, international processors often cut their concrete reinforcing steel on stationary plants.