REVOLUTIONISING FLANGE FABRICATION WITH SWEBEND’S PRECISION FORMING AND PUNCHING MACHINE – FM2

Swebend’s flanging machines and punching machines provide the very best precision and efficiency in sheet metal fabrication!

“The philosophy of SweBend is that every machine we build should become a cornerstone in our client’s production.”
Fredrik Hejman
Installations & Service

These automated metalworking machines are capable of creating complex shapes and features on sheets of various sizes and thicknesses. With advanced CNC technology, SweBend machines can punch and flange with high accuracy and consistency.

SweBend manufacture machines customised to the specific needs of each customer, whether you are bending massive beams for bridge constructions or precision bending sheet metal to create spaceships, SweBend has the solution.

At SweBend machine design is always focused on user-friendliness and machine capacity and this particular machine was no exception. It’s flexible and can handle cylinders and flanges in several different sizes.

“The design restriction most often boils down to what our clients are able to envision. When it comes down to bending, straightening and forming – there’s almost nothing that we’re not able to design, develop and build”

Pontus Hansson, Lead Mechanical Designer

A recent example is the FM2-0 machine, which accurately and efficiently creates flanges on cylinders, used in agricultural industry equipment to clean and dry grain.

• Depending on the size of the expander the machine can process various sizes of cylinder and provide the material manually.
• The welding seam of the material must be located between two modules of the expander.
• Single flashing of the auto start button. Press auto start and the expander starts widening to hold the material.
• Supports go down.
• The inner roll pinches the material.
• The expander with material and two bending rolls start rotating.
• Machine bends one edge of the material to make the flange. (Video speed x5)
• The rolls release the flange and move away from it.
• The roll module goes back to a parking position.
• The Supports go up.
• The expander releases the material and goes back to the starting position. (Video speed x 3)
• The bending process of the first flange is finished.
• The material is taken off the expander.
• The other side of the material is applied.
• Double flashing of the auto start button. Press the auto start to begin bending again.
• Bending the flange on the other side of the material. (Video speed x10)

The way SweBend Section Bending machines are engineered and built makes them the strongest machines available from any manufacturer. SweBend machines will always produce the highest drive torque and generate the most bending force compared to any other similar sized machine. This means bending jobs can be completed in fewer passes and often with less deformation, resulting in greater efficiency and the highest ROI compared to any competitive machine.

SweBend – precision bending, simplified