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and an 11 ” touchscreen monitor . Most of its product line is manufactured in Taiwan . Other machines are designed in the U . S . and manufactured in Italy and China .
“ Our sheet-metal folders are specifically designed for a wide range of industries and are suitable for light-duty applications such as box and pan , panels , flashing etc . We recommend them for metalworking fabricators in the HVAC , roofing and sign-making industries ,” it said .
Hershey ’ s Metal Meister in Mattoon , Illinois ( USA ) is a family-owned business with a history of rollforming and machinery manufacturing . The company purchased the North-American patent rights to European folding manufacturer Variobend ’ s products and is the U . S . manufacturer of Variobend equipment . Its portfolio includes single / double folders , a double bender and a single bender .
H . M . Transtech , s . r . o . is a privately owned Slovakian company with more than 20 years of experience in the production of sheetmetalworking machines .
Its production programme offers standard machines as well as machines with modern graphic CNC control systems . The production range includes : manual folding machines ; shears ; bending machines ; motorised and hydraulic shears ; motorised folding machines ; coil-processing / sheet lines and other special machines .
Jorns AG is a Swiss manufacturer of folders , double folders , compact strip-cutting lines , rounding machines as well as accessories used for processing sheet metal . Its customers mainly work in roofing or architectural sheet metal . Products range from simple NCcontrolled machines to sophisticated CNCcontrolled sheet-metal bending systems and a J-Bend app , functional on tablets and mobile phones , to support the management and production of sheet metal profiles . In 2016 , the company also launched its own CP200 touchscreen control panel .
The manufacturer will exhibit for the first time at EuroBLECH 2022 in Hanover this October with Krasser GmbH ( a manufacturer of sheet-metal cutting and coil processing systems ) at their joint exhibition stand . Customers of the two machine-tool manufacturers are active in the tinsmith , roofing and façade construction sectors .
“ There is clearly an increasing demand in the market for cutting and bending machines to ‘ communicate ’ with each other to increase productivity and reduce lead times , error rates and material consumption . We are pleased to be able to present our complete package to customers as an end-to-end solution in sheetmetal processing ,” explained Jorns .
The semi-automatic Jorns JB folder and fully automatic Jorns JDB double-bending folder can be configured in lengths of 3.2 to 12.2 metres and boast bending capacities for sheetmetal of up to 3mm .
“ Jorns AG double bending is an efficient method of processing sheet metal in a slitterfolder machine . Our TwinMatic-Pro doublebending folders operate using both upper and lower bending beams to process sheet-metal profiles . The Norma-Line , Maxi-Line and Super- Line long-length slitter folders boast a modular design which allows owners to configure the machine in the way that suits their own bending requirements . Optional features include variable lengths ( 4m , 64m , 8m , 10m
and 12.2m ); CNC controls ; shearing systems ; hydraulic material thickness adjustment ; depth stop and top beams ,” it explained .
“ The area behind the clamping tool with a retraction of over 290mm for the bending tools offers above-average open space on the fully automatic Jorns JDB double bending machine . You can then produce bending profiles without turning them around or over – with an array of possible profile variations . Several parallel , tapered or overlapped profiles can be bent simultaneously , an innovation that increases the speed of an operator ’ s work ,” Jorns told ISMR .
“ The use of servo-technology , the automatic loading and unloading table as well as the individually driven clamping fingers allow maximum precision , flexibility and productivity . Thanks to two bending tools , material handling has also been drastically reduced . The consistent calculation of processing and stop positions according to the ‘ Shorten bending according to DIN 6935 ’ method , intuitive graphic programming , high levels of angular accuracy and the uniformly closed water folds are all an integral part of the JDB ,” it added .
JPS Machinery ’ s hydraulic long-beam folding machine produces building , roofing and cladding products in folded lengths of 3000mm up to 12000mm ( material thicknesses of 0.7mm to 3mm ). Products include flashings ; cleats ; lapping joints ; standing seam / flatlock panels ; rounds ; hems ; open hem profiles etc .
With an in-built shear , long folded arms can be ‘ trimmed ’ from 3000mm up to 12000mm , without requiring a second operation . This is suitable for thinner sheet material of between 0.5 and 0.8mm .
UK-based Morgan Rushworth offers a range of manual , hydraulic and CNC folders . Its HBP hydraulic box and pan folder uses an adjustable manual angle-setting device . Clamping and bending is controlled by a joystick or foot pedal or combination of the two , allowing easy positioning of the material for folding .
Its ESR range of CNC folders are designed to produce fast , accurate and consistent folded parts . Available in 1.5m to 4.2m bending lengths , all models are supplied with a 1m-powered back gauge , with optional longer back gauges ( including U- and L-shaped
The Jorns JDB-150 folder .