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Posted February 19th, 2009
Press Release number: 01399SHEAR
Thursday, 19th February 2009
Two new series of component part leveller/straighteners from Swiss coil processing equipment manufacturer Soprem Automation AG are now available from Shear-Form, Soprem’s sole UK representative.
These Schubert and Soprem design leveller/straighteners are designed to correct any deviations in flatness caused by inner material tensions, which can occur during punching, laser or plasma cutting, hardening, nibbling, shearing and coating of steel, aluminium, copper, brass, bimetallic and special alloys. They are ideal for use in industries making building industry components, electro technical parts, mechanical and automotive components, perforated parts, drop wires as well as sawing and cutting tools.
Soprem part levellers/straighteners correct deviations in flatness - click image for hi-res version.
The Schubert leveller/straighteners using the latest drive and control technology are available with either 19 x 6mm diameter leveller rolls to straighten material thickness from 0.5mm to 1mm and up to 23 x 45mm diameter leveller rolls for material thicknesses from 0.5mm up to 8mm. Both models can handle parts from 5 - 630mm wide and up to 2m long.
The Soprem low cost leveller/straighteners are hydraulically powered to save energy with reduced mechanical parts deterioration for a longer working life. They have 19 x 12mm up to 19 x 35mm diameter leveller rolls to straighten material thicknesses from 0.5mm up to 4mm and parts from 5mm up to 450mm wide in lengths up to 2m.
Features of this leveller/straightener includes motorised or hand operated longitudinal inclination of the roller bed to help overcome material ductility.
Both the Schubert and Soprem design leveller/straighteners are available with automatic part feed and part ejection as an option.
Notes for editors:
Straightening reduces the number of faulty components by disposing of visible bending and rippling, which can cause manufacturing downtimes further down the process. It also reduces the processing complexity for components and produces higher quality more accurate components with effective edge finishing for welding.
Posted February 12th, 2009
Press Release number: 01359SHEAR
New Haeger Automatic and Manual XYZ sheet handling solutions for use with insertion presses are now available from Shear-Form Ltd.
Sheet handling is the most time consuming element of the hardware insertion process and these new 4 Haeger sheet handling systems have been designed to increase productivity and product quality by reducing the time of this element and improving the accuracy of the insertion process.
824 WindowTouch with 600mm x 1000mm automatic loading. Click on image for larger version
Both the Haeger WindowTouch®-3 insertion press with a force ranging from 4 - 72kN and designed to apply inserts into thin gauge materials and insertion applications where absolute repeatability (+/-0.5%) is critical. and Haeger 824 OneTouch®-3 insertion press featuring a four station automatic tool changing system with servo driven tool changer providing a 3 second automatic tool change, can be used with any of these 4 sheet handling systems.
The manual handling unit enables one operator to easily load large sheets, which would normally need multiple operators or a support table to handle.
An automatic sheet handling system loads and unloads flat sheets up to 600mm x 1,000mm with a 4th axis to turn parts and insert on two different sides of the sheet. Another automatic system loads and unloads 300mm x 400mm. flat sheets without a 4th axis.
Using a 6-axis arm Motoman robot cell with Haeger’s latest offline programming software allows sheets up to 1,200mm x 1,500mm. to be loaded and unloaded. This cell can also be fitted with a pallet feeding system on the finished products side.