FOCUS ON STAMPING
AP & T’ s global portfolio includes complete production lines with presses, linear automation, tools, heat treatment systems and services such as maintenance, spare part provision, optimisation and rebuilds. It showcased production solutions for the manufacturing of large press-hardened automotive components at Blechexpo in October 2025( AP & T ® SkyLines is its compact press-hardening line, developed to handle large and complex components).
It has now introduced AP & T TemperBox ®, a furnace-based technology in which material properties are controlled locally before forming and quenching. Together with GEDIA, the company is making its press hardening technology for tailored properties available to OEMs and suppliers looking to combine hard and soft zones within a single component, with support covering both design and series production.
Italian manufacturer Balconi Presseccentriche S. p. A. celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2024. It produces transfer, blanking and servo presses as well as presses for progressive tools, impact extrusion presses and fin die presses. Its press model 4DMRF- LD-2000 has a 2,000kN cushion and three-axis electronic transfer. The press can produce up to 27 strokes per minute.
Boldrini( part of the FACCIN Group) is a manufacturer of hydraulic dished-end presses, flanging machines and manipulators. The presses feature high speeds including approach, return and, particularly, pressure build-up timing. The Boldrini CNC-controlled portal frame press with automatic manipulator, PGD series, is designed for both cold and hot forming applications.
Its heavy duty four-column dual-use hydraulic deep drawing press has a capacity up to 5000 tons. The ROTEX design combines a hot forming press with a hot flanging machine capable of forming heads of up to 200mm in thickness. The Boldrini RIBO series flanging machine is used to manufacture dished heads for pressure vessels, steam boilers and equipment for the oil and chemical industries
Its manufacturing line includes specially designed hydraulic presses with one or more independent cylinders used for folding, straightening and shaping of components for naval, aircraft and aerospace applications. Hydroforming and / or air forming presses, used for multiple purposes, are also available.
Swiss press specialist Bruderer AG presented two innovations at Blechexpo 2025 in Stuttgart last October: the B3 machine control for the BSTA range of automatic stamping presses and the BSP lamination stacking control for rotor-stator production. Its stamping presses include the BSTA- 710-220 and BSTL 350-88 models. Bruderer UK has now opened a new 10,000 squaremetre‘ centre of manufacturing excellence’ in Telford( UK). It showcased the new BSTA-
A Balconi blanking press.
280-88-B3 machine at the MACH exhibition in Birmingham this April. Equipped with the new BSV 170 servo feeder, the press featured the new B3 control system.
Taiwanese manufacturer Chin Fong’ s stamping presses range from 20-ton single crank presses and up to 3200 metric tons of capacity to four-point eccentric gear-driven, large panel and multi-stage transfer presses. Forging presses are further diversified by cold, warm and hot forging processes. It has also developed an intelligent single-crank press with a crank mechanism used for blanking, drawing, bending and partial forming. Its straightside double-crank power press, with 400-ton capacity, has a bed area of 2.5m x 1m and can produce metal stampings from
Bruderer’ s BSTA 280-88B3 with BSV170 servo feeder and B3 control.
material measuring up to 400mm wide and 3.5mm thick. Its A0 tandem press line for the automotive industry includes stages such as deep drawing, trimming, piercing etc.
Established in 1948, Chin Fong has further boosted its sustainability credentials with the award of certification from SGS for ISO 14064-1 greenhouse gas and ISO 14067 Carbon
Footprint for its C-frame press products. It has moved onto multi-press connections and cloud computing, linking ERP management and AI computing systems to analyse Big Data. It offers machine selection consulting services, combined with its“ iForming PMS- Intelligent Forming Productivity Management System”. COSKUNÖZ KALIP MAKINA SANAYI VE TICARET A. S. offers turnkey solution to OEMs for stamping tooling, with upstream and downstream services which include engineering feasibility at vehicle design stage; HLTO services; die repair and maintenance; prototype dies / parts and project management. DEES Hydraulic Industrial Co., Ltd. is a hydraulic press manufacturer with factories in Taiwan and China. Its main products include presses such as custom triple-action; diespotting; die tryout; deep- drawing; transfer; servo-controlled; tandem press line; hotforming; four-post; hemming; C-frame hydraulic presses etc. DEES Hydraulic has also developed a closed loop, hydraulic, servo-controlled die spotting press and a 24-hour 2,500-ton tandem line customised for automotive manufacturing.
The high-speed technology of the HD series developed by DEES is controlled by the accumulator. DEES’ s self-developed HD- FASTech technology has been designed to improve deep drawing / production efficiency.
DIEFFENBACHER is an independent family business in its fifth generation and a manufacturer of press systems and complete production plants for metal forming. It also offers a wide range of advanced solutions for sustainable energy generation. The company celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2023. Hydraulic forming presses, complete press lines for sheet metal forming and the production of stainless-steel parts, digitalisation and sustainability solutions, along with service and automation expertise, are offered. Its hydraulic press lines feature press forces of up to 32,000kN.
The manufacturer’ s award-winning digitalisation platform, EVORIS, uses artificial intelligence to make production lines faster and more efficient. Variable-speed pump drives minimise unnecessary energy consumption. DIEFFENBACHER’ s embossing press stamps plates for stainless-steel heat exchangers. ebu Umformtechnik( ebu) designs automatic punching machines, presses and automation from the conveyor system to parts management. Its HMI( human-machine interface) features a Siemens Unified Panel. The HMI is cloud- and web-ready and multi-touch gestures, as well as zooming functionality, is possible. In October 2025, ebu Umformtechnik GmbH expanded its portfolio and now also offers presses from its Chinese parent company( XUDUAN) directly in Germany and Europe( press range from 80-2,500 tons). Fagor Arrasate, headquartered in Spain, offers presses, coil cutting and processing
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