Yoder Upgrades M-2 ½ Roll Former

Yoder recently upgraded a 50 year old 12 station M-2 ½ roll forming machine.  The roll former was expanded to 16 stations, in order to manufacture a wider range of products, increased to 200 FPM operation and upgraded to the latest version of the M-2 ½ driven roll forming stands with single point adjustment.  Other new features added to the machine are automatic bearing lubrication and an air blow off system.  The machine upgrades enables the customer to increased production speeds on all products, some by up to 3 times previous rates.

Yoder’s M-Series roll forming machines are rugged, scalable solutions to meet a range of custom and high production, industrial applications.  For more information, contact yoder@formtekgroup.com, call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.yodermfg.com.

Roll Tooling for Existing Competitors Machine

Formtek recently supplied new roll tooling to form a fluorescent light fixture reflector.  The tooling was installed and tested on the customer’s existing roll forming machine.  The tooling designs take advantage of the existing machine parameters, to provide the customer with new geometry for a lighting product that is marketed worldwide.  In addition, the tooling set utilizes Formtek’s latest idler fixture designs,  which are tailored to feeding tall, asymmetrical profiles without marking.  For more information, www.formtekgroup.com, contact sales@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-4460.

Yoder Supplies Seam Rotation Stand

Yoder recently supplied a SRS-350, Seam Rotation Stand to Jaytec LLC.  The unit is sized for 3.5” OD x 0.150” maximum tube size, covering a large range of mechanical tubing.  The seam rotation stand adds value to mechanical tubing by orienting the weld location to center of the flat or corner of shapes, as customers require.  These units are also available in 5” and 6-5/8” sizes.  This SRS-350 is the customer’s second seam rotation stand from Yoder.

Yoder’s Seam Rotation Stand and other tube mill accessories are rugged fixtures designed for versatile use in a range of tube, pipe and industrial production environments.  For more information, contact yoder@formtekgroup.com, call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.yodermfg.com.

Motorized Turkshead

Yoder recently supplied a motorized turkshead to a west coast manufacturer of mechanical tubing and conduit.  This double turkshead, sized for 3” OD x 0.135” maximum tubing has been operated at speeds up to 1200 FPM.  The motorized adjustment features enables the tube mill operator to remotely adjust the unit while threading up after a tooling or coil change, avoiding the start and stop of the line, minimizing changeover time and setup scrap.  This is the customer’s second Motorized turkshead from Yoder.

Yoder’s Turkshead straighteners and other tube mill accessories are rugged fixtures designed for versatile use in a range of tube, pipe and industrial production environments.  For more information, contact yoder@formtekgroup.com, call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.yodermfg.com.

New 2DWR Supermill Roll Former

Formtek recently supplied a B&K 2DWR Supermill to a steel framing customer in Florida. The 2DWR is designed for high speed production of light gauge stud and track.  This machine was supplied with special tooling to produce an engineered stud and track profile.  Changeovers for material thickness, web width, and from stud to track can be accomplished in minutes without roll tooling change.

B&K Systems provides industry leading, high productivity steel framing systems through the use of its patented rotary punch, shear and gauge adjustment technology.  For more information visit our website, www.bkformtek.com, email bkformtek@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-4460.

NEW - Tishken XHS Slitter Redesign with Roll-a-Head

Tishken recently updated its Slitting System designs for producing narrow coils widths in high production and frequent changeover environments.  To maximize productivity and support the sensitive knife setups of narrow mult slitting, the systems offer Tishken’s Roll-a-Head feature for efficient change of the slitter head inline, reducing downtime.   Unlike turret-type systems, with the Roll-a-Head design, the tooling can be setup and gapped offline, then quickly rolled inline and secured via the hydraulic transfer and clamping system.  The systems are available with single or multiple recoilers and the option of oscillate winding.  To further support the specialty slitting applications, the system includes a job memory for storing the speeds and drive settings of each knife setup, to optimize production and minimize scrap.

Tishken designs and builds specialized production systems for roll forming and coil metal processing.   For more information, contact sales@formtekgroup.com , call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.tishken.com

Yoder Supplies Tier 1 Automotive Tooling

Yoder recently supplied tooling to a Tier 1 Automotive supplier for door trim.  The tooling is designed for forming a specialty polymer coated steel for use in roll forming door trim on the customer’s existing M-1 ½ machines.  Yoder’s experience with this material was especially important, as the thick coating is particularly sensitive to the forming pressures of steel.  This is the third such application Yoder has provided tooling for in recent years. 

Yoder’s roll forming tooling is purposefully designed and manufactured to meet a range of custom and high production, industrial applications.  For more information, contact yoder@formtekgroup.com, call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.yodermfg.com.