Dahlstrom Supplies Supermill® for Door Frame Profiles

Dahlstrom recently supplied a customer with a 2DFR Supermill® Roll Forming system for production of steel door frames.  The system is equipped with motorized, programmable adjustment, so the operator can select the profile to be run, by choosing from the included part master database, or input the profile dimensions on the operator’s touchscreen.  All feature dimensions, as well as over-bending, flare compensation and material thickness can be stored and adjusted by the main touchscreen control.  The system was supplied with an entry feed conveyor that automatically transferred the sheet blank from the customer’s upstream coil processing line. The supermill system is also available as a stand-alone machine, so customers may load notched or sheet blanks from a discrete turret press, laser or cut-to-length process.

In addition to door frames, the Supermill® systems have been supplied for a variety of applications in the construction, furniture, lighting, and mechanical component markets.  For more information contact dahlstrom@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-6300, or visit www.dahlstromusa.com. 

Yoder Unveils New 4- & 5-Roll Weld Boxes

Yoder Recently unveiled a new design for their 4-roll and 5-roll weld boxes.  The New weld boxes offer an updated roll arrangement, to improve longevity and ease of tooling changeover between sizes.  The units are currently designed for mechanical tubing, pipe and structural up to 5.5” round, and shapes up to 6.5” tall, for welded roll form applications such as automotive frames.  The new weld boxes are designed to be retrofitted to existing tube mills.

Yoder tube, pipe and forming solutions are 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.

Yoder Designs New Reshaping Stand for Mechanical/Structural Products

Yoder Recently unveiled a new design of Reshaping Stand for mechanical tube and structural sections.  The WH-350-RS unit can reshape up to 4” (101.6 mm) square, rectangles up to 6” (152.4) wide and as small as 2” (50.8 mm) in the horizontal and vertical axes, for materials up to 0.250” (6.35 mm) thickness.  The reshaping stand has been designed so it may be retrofitted on any mill that makes up to 5” (127 mm) round, and can directly replace existing Yoder W-35 and WH-350 Sizing Stands.  Other Yoder WH-Series Reshaping Stands are available, with a variety of drive systems to fit the application.

Yoder tube & pipe solutions are 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.

Yoder Rafted Mill Stands

Yoder XW model driven roll forming stand units can fit in the same footprint and be used in conjunction with customer’s existing QVW roll stands, but offer the option of adjustable bottom shaft height, to accommodate regrinds, tube mill, swept roll form part or combination tooling needs.

Yoder Retrofit Kits for the M-Style Roll Forming Stands

Yoder's M-style roll forming stands can be retrofitted to handle higher line speeds, greater material capacity and longevity between maintenance cycles and reduced changeover times.  Recent installations have enabled tube mill customers to increase material capacity by 15%, while both roll form and tube mill customers have been able to double line speeds or more. 

Hill Engineering Supplies Two Cutting Heads to Canadian Manufacturer

Hill Engineering has recently supplied two (2) cutting heads to a Canadian Manufacturer of Automotive components for producing finished lengths of fuel line tubing.  The ¾" Due Cut system provides a dimple free sheer for cutting off of small diameter tubing.  The system is widely used for manufacturing cut lengths of fuel line tube. 

Yoder Supplies Roll Forming System for Framing Channel

Yoder recently supplied a mill for the manufacture of cable tray and framing channel.  The new mill will add production capacity to the customer’s existing product offerings to Australian and Asian markets which they currently serve.  The system produces eight sizes of framing channel on a single tooling set, allowing maximum versatility without the need for multiple tooling or raft sets to changeover between products.

Formtek, Inc. Will Host a Manufacturing Day Event on October 4, 2013

Formtek, Inc. will participate in Manufacturing Day on October 4th.  There are 677 events planned across the US for this event.  Formtek, Inc. has Cleveland area colleges and high schools attending along with lawmaker’s and community members.  This event is part of an effort to draw greater attention to the outstanding opportunities that a career in manufacturing can provide and promote the pursuit of skills that will lead to a long-term career that offers security and growth for qualified candidates.

Formtek, Inc. being the main host coordinated a group well known manufacturers that will be at our facility for Manufacturing Day.   American Spring Wire is North America’s largest manufacturer of valve and commercial quality spring wire, and a major supplier of PC Strand will have a table with representatives present.  Satellite Gear a manufacturer of gears and machined parts will have a table with representatives.  NSL Analytical Services, Inc. a commercial materials testing laboratory, which tests for quality control, failure analysis, product performance, and material selection will also be at our facility with representatives.   Lincoln Electric the world leader in design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc-welding systems will be at our facility with their VIRTUAL WELDING MACHINE.

If you are looking to attend an event you can sign up at http: //www.mfgday.com/  

Yoder Introduces XW-Series Forming Machines

Yoder recently introduced its XW-series of driven forming stands for roll forming and tube mills. The three models of XW-Series driven stands incorporate a rigid, gusseted housing design, which has years of proven performance in the QVW-Series machines, with the additional feature of bottom shaft adjustment.  The design is reverse compatible with the QVW-Series roll stands, so they can be installed on existing installations with no modifications.  The bottom shaft adjustable design adds the ability to form deeper sections and performer greater amounts of reshaping on a roll former or tube mill, than was previously available in similar models.  The QVW-Series machine will continue to be the standard, universal driven design, with the option of the XW-Series available when the applications require.

Yoder’s XW- and QVW-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.

Yoder Supplies M-1 ½ Weld Wire Mill Rebuild and Training

Yoder recently supplied a manufacturer of flux cored weld wire the rebuild of two (2) M-1 ½ Roll forming machines.  The rebuilds include training of the customer’s maintenance and operations personnel, to learn the proper machine setup and changeover.

Yoder’s roll forming machines and tooling are 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.

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 fourth 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.

Yoder Upgrades M-2 Tube Mill

Yoder recently performed a major upgrade to a 75 year old M-2 tube mill, including roll stands, turkshead and drive system.   All the driven roll stands were replaced with new-style M-2 units.  The new style units will allow the customer to produce a larger diameter tube than they could previously. The tube mill stands include the gusseted outboard housing for improved rigidity, Additionally, the new double turkshead improves control of part straightness.  Finally, the drive system was upgraded from 2-motors to 3, effectively doubling the mill speed without any tooling modifications

Yoder’s M-Series tube mills are a time tested, 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.

Yoder Supplies M-1 ½ High Speed Mill Rebuild

Yoder recently supplied a manufacturer of ceiling grid the rebuild of M-1 ½ Roll forming stands for a high speed roll former .  The rebuilds include upgrading to latest, gusseted outboard housing, for increased rigidity, as well as the oil shielding and seals to insure proper lubrication at high production rates.  This is Yoder’s fourth facility providing rebuilds and capability upgrades for this customer.

Yoder’s roll forming machines and tooling are 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.

Yoder Upgrades M-2 Tube Mill

Yoder recently upgraded a titanium M-2 tube mill.  The breakdown section of the mill was upgraded with four (4) new-style M-2 tube mill driven roll stands.  The tube mill stands include the gusseted outboard housing for improved rigidity, as well as Single Point Adjustment, for repeatability of tooling setups when changing over materials and product sizes.

Yoder’s M-Series tube mills are a time tested, 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.

Yoder Upgrades Tube Mill

Yoder recently supplied high speed roll stands for an existing automotive tube mill.   All the driven roll stands were replaced with new-style M-2 units.  The new style units will allow the customer to produce a larger diameter tube than they could previously. The tube mill stands include the gusseted outboard housing for improved rigidity.  Additionally, for consideration of long term maintenance and support, 100% of the roll stand components are available from stock and can be shipped the same day.

Yoder’s M-Series tube mills are a time tested, 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.

B&K Supplies New Steel Framing Plant

B&K recently supplied a 3TSR Supermill® and Accessory System to a new factory in Canada, to produce drywall and structural steel framing and related components. The 3TSR Supermill® will manufacture drywall and structural stud and tracks from 25 to 12 gauges, in 2-1/2” up to 14” web widths, and 1” to 3” leg heights at speeds up to 300 FPM.  The Accessory System produces six (6) unique accessory profiles in multiple gauges, including a continuous pattern rotary punch unit for RC-1 and RC-2 Resilient Channel.  Both systems were supplied with AMS XL200 Controllers as well as Eclipse software, enabling the customer to queue their production directly from the office, to the production floor, as well as accurately tracking coil material being used. 

B&K patented gauge adjustment and rotary technologies make the Supermill® and Accessory Systems the highest production and versatile steel framing solutions available.  The Accessory System can be expanded to produce up to eight (8) unique profiles and multiple hole patterns.  For more information, contact sales@formtekgroup.com , call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.bkformtek.com.

Yoder Supplies QVW-150 Raft Retrofit for Flux Cored Weld Wire Mill

Yoder recently supplied a manufacturer of flux cored welding wire a QVW-150 raft set for retrofitting onto their existing, non-Yoder, roll forming machine.  Yoder’s experience with flux cored wire applications, as well as the user friendly design and flexibility of the QVW-style roll stands, made the retrofit easy, with the existing tooling able to be reused on the new raft set, without modification.  This is Yoder’s third customer recently, retrofitting of QVW-150 rafts to a non-Yoder mill, specifically for Flux Cored Weld Wire production

Yoder’s roll forming machines and tooling are 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.

Yoder MS-3 Roll Forming Machine – HVAC Application

Yoder recently supplied Macor, Monterrey, Mexico, with a new, MS-3 Roll Forming Machine.  The rafted, twenty-six (26) station, 2.5” shaft roll forming machine incorporates the latest version of the M-style roll forming stands, which includes Yoder’s new eccentric toggle disconnect.  The roll forming machine was supplied with a  precut entry table and transfer conveyor system, enabling the machine to be fed tailored blanks from Macor’s existing coil processing equipment. This production arrangement allows the roll former to run in a high production mode or in kits to feed downstream production.  With the rafted capability of the roll forming machine, additional tooling sets can be added, with quick changeover for future products.

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.

Yoder Supplies New Mill and Tooling for Roll Up Door Slat

Yoder recently supplied a manufacturer of overhead garage and man doors a QVW-150 Roll forming machine and tooling to produce the bottom bar slat for their roll up doors.  Yoder’s experience with roll-up door applications, and the versatility of the rafted roll forming machine were especially important, considering the multiple materials the customer will run on this tooling set, as well as flexibility of adding other tooling profiles in the future.  This is the fourth Yoder roll forming machine and tooling for this customer’s facility. 

Yoder’s roll forming machines and tooling are 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.

Yoder Supplies Pull-Thru Forming Section for High Performance Flux Cored Wire

Yoder has recently supplied a domestic flux cored weld wire manufacturer with a pull through raft set version of the QVW-150 mill.  This specialized QVW-150 mill will replace a competitor's pull through machine, while adding the benefits of interchangeable tooling with their existing Yoder M-1½ machines and greater vertical adjustment for more regrinds between tooling replacements.  In addition, they will experience significantly improved changeover between sizes thanks to the cantilevered tooling arrangement, coupled with single-point adjustment on all vertical and horizontal forming stands.

Yoder Updates a 60 Year Old M-2 Tube Mill

Yoder recently supplied an Ohio company new roll stands, double turkshead straightener and laser alignment to update a 60 year old M-2 Tube Mill.  New components will allow the customer to run larger diameter once installation is complete.  Future upgrades include new electrics to increase line speed.

Yoder Supplies A Rebuild M-1½ Roll Forming Stand

Yoder recently supplied a manufacturer of ceiling grid the rebuild of M-1½ Roll forming stands for 2 roll formers and 6 sets of tooling.  The rebuilds and tooling will bolster the customer's US and Asian manufacturing production.

Roto-Die joins the Formtek Group

Formtek, Inc. has entered into agreement to purchase Roto-Die, Inc.  Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Roto-Die is a manufacturer of hydraulic press brakes for sheet metal that has a unique, versatile tool design to quickly and easily switch between bending operations.  “Having common dealers and serving similar markets, Roto-Die is a great fit for the Formtek Group,” says Darren Muchnicki, president of Formtek, Inc.  “It will be a great compliment to our Iowa Precision, Lockformer, Engel, Lion and ISM products and solutions.”  Roto-Die will join the Cleveland location of Formtek.  Any questions, please contact us, sales@formtekgroup.com.

Yoder Updates M-Series Roll Forming Machines

Yoder recently updated its M-Series of driven forming stands for roll forming and tube mills. The four models of M-Series driven stands incorporate a rigid, gusseted outboard design, which has years of proven performance in the QVW-Series machines. The updated versions also have the option of Yoder’s new eccentric toggle disconnect.  With the ability to form deep sections and operate a wide range of tooling sets on a single roll former or tube mill, the disconnect mechanism allows the top drive gear to be taken out of the fixed gear ratio, on specific stations, to accommodate tooling designs that do not match the machinery gear ratio, enabling customers to run a wide range of existing tooling on this machine.  Additionally, these features are reverse compatible, so they can be retrofitted onto existing M-series roll forming machines and tube mills.

http://yodermfg.com/ 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.

Yoder Pallet Racking Tooling

Yoder recently supplied a set of combination tooling for the production of pallet racking uprights and bracings.  The single tooling set can produce two sizes of upright posts in three gauges as well as one size of lateral bracings.  This tooling design offers quick changeover between sizes, via relocation of spacers, and is more economical than a rafted style system, with similar changeover times.  The tooling will be used by a pallet racking distributor that has expanded into manufacturing of their main product line. 

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.

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.

Krasny Kaplan Hex Bundler Rebuild

Krasny Kaplan recently supplied a rebuild of a hex bundling system.  The bundling system can handle seamless pipe up to 7-1/2” diameter, 2” wall thickness, in lengths up to 40 feet.  The customer has seen expanded business activity related to the energy sector, so the rebuild was particularly time sensitive and had to be contained within preplanned shutdown.  Future plans include expanding the maximum length capabilities of the bundler.

Krasny Kaplan is a designer and builder of steel mill material handling equipment.  These systems are tailored to each specific application, considering the unique production and environment and needs of each customer.   More information is available on the website: http://yodermfg.com/products/Material_Handling/, email kk@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-4460.

Damper Blade Cutoff Die for OEM RF Mfg.

HillEngineering of Carol Stream, IL, a member of the Formtek Group, has recently helped a OEM Roll Forming and Coil Processing company to provide a new flying slug type cutoff die for a damper blade style product with tight round curl at one end of the part. Hill Engineering used their 60+ year experience in designing a die cutting inserts, using the most advanced tool steels that would fit in the narrow areas of the curl. That gave the area the most support possible to allow the cutoff blade to impact the curl, get a good cut without breaking the insert.

Hill Engineering pre designed and built the updated HX series rail assembly, press frame, and provided a new operators console to include adding the existing mill controls into one cabinet. The Hill Engineering team worked with the customer to time the shipment of  the components to work within the customer time frame to minimize their overall inconvenience

For more information, please contact info@hillengr.com, or direct at (630) 834-4430.  Or visit us on the web at www.hillengr.com

The Formtek is a group of long-established companies, each with a well-known name and a history of providing innovative, reliable equipment to the metal forming and metal processing industries. As a single source provider, Formtek continues to supply its customers with the highest quality equipment, parts and service available in the industries it serves.

Visit the Formtek website (www.formtekgroup.com) for additional information on products, services and employment opportunities available.

Dahlstrom Supplies Roll Former for Fenestration

Dahlstrom recently supplied a fenestration customer a precision, high speed 360-OF model roll forming machine for the production of laser welded air spacer, used in energy efficient, insulated glass windows and doors.  Dahlstrom has provided four of these systems in the last two years, as the use of air spacer for energy efficient doors and windows increases, particularly for the home remodeling sector.  The customer’s selected this machine based on its compact design, precision tolerance and quick changeover.

Dahlstrom’s roll forming machines and flexible fabrication systems are designed and built for a range of  light gauge, custom and high production, industrial applications.  For more information, contact dahlstrom@formtekgroup.com, call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.dahlstromusa.com. 

Tishken Edger

Tishken recently supplied MD Metals, Bedford Park, IL with a STR-40 Tishken Edging System.   The system can process strip up to 4” wide and up to ¼” thick., featuring two banks of edging rolls as well as a combination edging/de-cambering section that and can produce a variety of edge types.  The line is capable of producing de-cambered and leveled cut-to-length strips as thin as 1/16” and as narrow as ½” wide.

Tishken Edging Systems for ferrous and non-ferrous materials are available with Recoiling and CTL models at widths of up to 12” and thicknesses up to ½”, and can also be retrofitted into existing coil processing lines.  For more information, contact tishken@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-4460.

Yoder MS-3 Roll Forming Machine

Yoder recently supplied Jame Roll Formed Products with a new MS-3 Roll Forming Machine. The twenty (20) station, 3” shaft roll forming machine incorporates the latest version of the M-style roll forming stands, which includes Yoder’s new eccentric toggle disconnect.  With the ability to form profiles up to 6.5” deep on the MS-3 model, the disconnect mechanism allows the top drive gear to be taken out of the fixed gear ratio, on specific stations, to accommodate tooling designs that do not match the machinery gear ratio. This will enable Jame Roll Formed Products to run their existing 3” bore tooling on this new machine without modification.

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.

Tishken Slitting System for Bearing Steel

Tishken recently supplied a 12-XHS Slitting system for producing narrow coils used in the manufacture of sleeve bearings.  With a maximum 12” incoming coil width, the slitter head was sized to produce 42 cuts of 0.237” wide mults in 0.059” thickness material.  In order to support such particular knife setups, the slitting system includes 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.  Additionally, the 12-XHS System includes dual recoilers for wrapping burr up and burr down coils on separate mandrels, each with a non-contact overarm separator for the surface critical material.  To further support the specialty slitting application, the system includes a job memory for storing the speeds and drive settings of each knife setup, to optimize the 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

B&K Supplies a 2DWR Supermill®, Master Bundler and Accessory System to Mexico

B&K recently supplied a 2DWR Supermill®, Master Bundler and Accessory System to a new factory in Mexico, to produce drywall steel framing components. The 2DWR Supermill® will manufacture drywall stud and tracks from 25 to 18 gauges, in 1-5/8” up to 8” web widths at speeds up to 500 FPM, coupled with a master bundler to package stud and track for distribution.  The Accessory System produces four (4) unique accessory profiles in multiple gauges, including a continuous pattern rotary punch unit for corner bead. 

B&K’s patented gauge adjustment and rotary technologies make the Supermill® and Accessory Systems the highest production and versatile steel framing solutions available.  The Accessory System can be expanded to produce up to eight (8) unique profiles and multiple hole patterns.  For more information, contact sales@formtekgroup.com , call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.bkformtek.com.

Yoder "New" Strut Tooling Redesign

Yoder recently updated its forming design for roll tooling to produce strut framing channel.  The tooling updates can form the full range of strut sizes, from 13/16” to 3-1/4” without marking the profile in carbon, galvanized and stainless steel material.  Unlike competitors, Yoder’s strut tooling design does not utilize bronze or floating flange rolls to tackle the galling issue of taller profiles.  The new tooling design has been installed on multiple systems and has enabled customers to triple the speed at which they produce 3-1/4” strut framing channel in stainless steel, the most challenging of strut profiles to form without galling. 

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

B&K Accessory System Redesign

B&K recently updated its Accessory System for production of steel framing components.  The updated design incorporates features of the 2DWR Supermill®, resulting in higher production speed capabilities of the Accessory System while insuring greater control for the precut operation of light gauge profiles.  The Accessory System can be supplied for one (1) profile to eight (8) unique accessory profiles, as well as multiple rotary punch patterns.  The continuous pattern rotary punch utilizes quick die change features for efficient changeover when multiple punch patterns are required on one machine.  The speed and precut arrangement of the B&K Accessory System results in a high production volume, versatile roll former that offers the most up time compared to any competitors accessory machine.

B&K’s patented gauge adjustment and rotary technologies make the Supermill® and Accessory Systems the highest production and versatile steel framing solutions available.  The Accessory System can produce up to eight (8) unique profiles and multiple hole patterns.  For more information, contact sales@formtekgroup.com , call (216) 292-4460 or visit www.bkformtek.com.

Flagler Panel and HAP 20 press

Hill Engineering of Carol Stream, IL, a member of the Formtek Group, has supplied an OEM Roll Forming Manufacture with a flying slugless panel cutoff die and HAP 30 ton bladder style air press. The air press was shipped complete with press rails, back stop return plate and wired terminal box to be incorporated into a line they are providing for their customer with open loop measuring. The customer had multiple part widths that had to run, but because of the part configurations they could not be run as a center or edge constant. So engineering team at Hill designed slugless die was designed to handle multiple part width configurations with almost no changeovers required.

With Hill Engineering’s long history in design and innovations the initial system was designed to be flexible so to maximize the customers initial capital expenditures so future products to run on the line.

For more information, please contact info@hillengr.com, or direct at (630) 834-4430.  Or visit us on the web at http://www.hillengr.com

The Formtek is a group of long-established companies, each with a well-known name and a history of providing innovative, reliable equipment to the metal forming and metal processing industries. As a single source provider, Formtek continues to supply its customers with the highest quality equipment, parts and service available in the industries it serves.

Visit the Formtek website www.formtekgroup.com for additional information on products, services and employment opportunities available.

New Yoder Roll Tooling for Existing Competitors Machine

Formtek recently supplied new Yoder 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.

Roll Tooling for Existing Tishken Machine

Formtek recently supplied new roll tooling for a precut HVAC structural shape for an existing Tishken machine.  The unique tooling design is capable to form a seam, similar to a lockseam, utilizing precut material, a feat not common for these types of applications, in galvanized, primed, mild carbon steel and stainless steel material.  For more information, www.tishken.com, contact tishken@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-4460.

Winpro Roll Forming Machine

Formtek recently supplied a window manufacturer a Winpro S-series roll forming machine.  The machine is unique in that it can roll from up to four (4) different geometries without any changeover.  Another unique feature is the tooling design, which is capable of forming two (2) identical thicknesses of strip for a given geometry at the same time.  This allows the use of various materials with the same tooling design.  This feature will enable the customer to utilize scrap from other operations to produce stiffeners for vinyl extrusions. For more information, contact Winpro, www.winproformtek.com, winpro@formtekgroup.com or call (216) 292-4460.