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

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.

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