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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Merry Christmas from Formtek

From all of us at Formtek, may the good times and treasures

of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas.