Roll forming is a continuous forming process of metal from coil to cross-section pieces. The coil sheet moves through a series of roll stations to form a certain shaped profiles.
1. Advantages of using roll forming machines
Roll forming is effective for mass production and high accuracy of the long workpieces. What’s more, it is designed to make more complicated pieces with less manpower. Those pieces can be produced in one roll forming line with notching, grooving, punching, embossing and bending.
2. Fields using roll forming machines
Roll forming lines are widely used in many fields, such as automobiles, construction, household appliances, medicine, highway, railway, aircraft and ventilationindustries.
- Roll forming machine for automobile: machines to make car beam
- Roll forming machine for construction: machines to make roofing panels, purlins and light gauge steel for decoration and villa housing
- Roll forming machine for solar energy: machines to make unistrut supporting beam for solar panel
- Roll forming machine for highway: machines to make crash barriers.
- Roll forming machine for storage: machines to make storage beams, uprights and panels.
