FOCUS ON STAMPING
It is currently making a major 20-millioneuro industrial investment at its Mondragón headquarters in Spain, aimed at modernising and expanding its production capacity as well as optimising and reorganising its industrial spaces.
Its presses are fully automated, with its own automated systems such as transfer systems or pick-up destackers. It also offers one single control architecture for an entire press line. Its high-speed press line( WaveLine concept) has been developed to transfer large, stamped parts( such as body side, hood, roof and double-door units) through large tandem press lines. Fagor Arrasate has also incorporated Danobat’ s coil laser-cutting technology into its press lines, with a modular and scalable coil-fed, laserblanking concept.
FF Fluid Forming GmbH produces the FormBalancer hydroforming press. It shapes metal sheets into a tool mould by applying very high pressures( up to 4000 bars). The clamping forces of up to 8,000 tons required in this process are completely absorbed by the machine frame without any deformation of the tools, it told ISMR.
Fresan Makina san. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti manufactures C-frame eccentric presses from 10 tons to 250 tons( 100kN- 2500kN), special machinery and hydraulic punching presses.
Group Rhodes, one of Europe’ s largest OEMs in its field, celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2024 by expanding its operations into a new 25,000-square-foot premises adjacent to its manufacturing facility in Wakefield, West Yorkshire( UK). It also appointed 16 new staff across its Rhodes Interform, BJD Crushers and Craven Fawcett businesses. The Group actively manufactures and markets over fifty basic ranges of presses / machines and designs, develops and manufactures bespoke machinery and complete turnkey solutions.
Press examples include flexible die presses and stretch forming presses. Through its Rhodes Interform business, it has also developed a stamping process that enables large monocoque components, particularly those produced by super plastic forming( SPF) from very thin material, to accurately retain their shape on cooling. The company designs, manufactures and installs titanium and aluminium forming cells for aerospace and automotive manufacturers. Dualform is its patented process incorporating a special Double Acting Hydraulic Press. This process enables the simultaneous manufacture of matched top and bottom dies within the press which, in turn, are used for the manufacture of finished pressed panels.
Haulick + Roos manufactures precision stamping and forming machines for stamping, punching, cutting, bending and drawing. It
can also handle complex forming work with progressive and complete cutting tools in the press force range from 250 to 5,000kN. Its ROP 4000-3500 press( with a press force of 4000kN, installation length 3500mm) features a KFS guide system, rotating stroke / pendulum stroke and switchable servo drive.
FSD Flexible Servo Drive press from Haulick + Roos.
Heilbronn Group offers a broad spectrum of press technology for the packing and pharmaceutical market, as well as for sheetmetal processing, from single machines up to complete production lines. This includes C-frame presses and straightside eccentric presses; link drive presses; blanking lines; decoilers, straighteners and feeders.
For more than 70 years, it has been supplying mechanical presses designed for customer-specific applications such as C-frame presses / single-column presses or H-frame presses double-column presses. Each comes with a classic eccentric drive, a link drive or a freely programmable servo drive in pendulum stroke mode or in combination with a mechanical stroke adjustment.
Turkish manufacturer, Hidrokar Pres Metal Makina İml. San. İç ve Dış Tic, manufactures a range of presses in different formats and dimensions, including hydraulic and deepdrawing presses.
Danish manufacturer Hydraulico A / S
The FormBalancer hydroforming press.
designs and delivers advanced press technology and complete production lines. All presses are designed and produced to customer specifications. It has installed over 4000 hydraulic presses in 60 countries since 1946. Its product range includes tailor-made presses( up to 10,000 tons and six forming axes) and customised press solutions integrating different types of peripheral equipment, automation, heating technologies and tooling. Its Electronic Shimming TM technology is designed to eliminate wrinkles and cracks in the finished parts to reduce scrap rates. The company has a subsidiary office in the United States.
I. M. V. Presse specialises in developing a wide range of mechanical and servo press solutions( from one to four connecting rods with power ranging from 1,000 to 35,000kN), as well as turnkey press lines. The Italian stamping specialist has over eighty years of experience in sheet metal forming.
INGYU is a Taiwanese press manufacturer, established in 1970, which provides highspeed presses for automotive, can-making, motor lamination and complex forming applications. Its new SVL-10 Ultra Precision Press, with servo technology and an oil-free design, is suitable for stamping ultra-thin plastic material as well as metals such as steel, brass, aluminium and stainless steel.
INGYU’ s HV350-3000 multi-point, high-speed press.
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