Samco Rollforming Blog

Samco’s rollforming alliance with Formia Tech Oy, out of Jyvaskyla, Finland has brought new products to Samco. These companies have plans to foster a culture of advanced technological exchange and quicker product development to each other’s geographic areas. Samco and Formia are global suppliers of Roll forming systems with a local presence. The newly formed alliance has started with a program of joining forces through all company actiivities, starting from unifying worldwide marketing and sales approach, optimizing outsourcing and purchasing activity up to servicing and after sales service.

New products in Samco’s offering now includes Roof Tile Rollforming Lines, Trapezpoidal Rollforming Lines and Complete Insultated Panel Lines. These Roof Tile lines make the highest quality roof tiles with impressive production capacity utilizing servo technology. These robust Trapezoidal Lines make hight quality deeo profiles for demanding industrial production. Samco will provide a one stop shopping experience for these Insulated Panel Lines. Samco will handle the design, manufacturing, subcontracting, installation and project management of these polyurethane foam panel lines.

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Samco’s new 20,000 square foot rollform manufacturing facility in Tatarpur near Faridabad has 2 CNC machines and a boring mill. Our new CEO Vivek Singh who joined March 3, 2008 will take the key leadership role and steer Samco India to its intended path. That path is to bring the 35 years of rollforming experience to India to compete with Korea, Taiwan and China.

Samco India has already received a few jobs in the automotive industry including a rollformer for TATA…the NANO, (PEOPLE’S CAR). TATA motors is the largest OEM in India. Samco India is providing a complete roll forming system to make 6 major chassis parts. This rollforming production system includes 10,000 lb. double uncoiler, a 50 ton pre punch press, a 30 ton flying cut off press, a 18 pass rollformer, 5 stretch benders, two 130 ton mechanical presses, 2 multiple punching presses and 2 flange notching presses.

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Many manufacturers of steel studs, purlins, roof trusses make more than one product on the same roll former. In many facilities, an entire day can be spent changing each roll on the rollformer getting ready for another product. In the stud industry where the speed of a rollformer is critical (rollformers run at over 500 fpm) because the volumes are so high, this downtime causes a huge ineffiency.

Samco has a duplex rollformer for these customers. The width of the web or flange for example can be changed at literally the touch of a button. On our purlin rollformers for example, even changing from a CEE to a ZEE purlin can be done in 7 seconds at the touch of a button! The stud and track industry cannot afford to have this downtime with the increasing demand for their products. All the stud manufacturers are using duplex rollformers.

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The alliance of Samco and Formia has been rewarded its first job. A company in Sweden has ordered a purlin rollform machine. It is a customer of Formia’s. Samco will manufacture the purlinmaster, ship it to the customer and Formia will support it. This is how the alliance will work. Formia’s expertise is in roof tile rollforming lines, trapezoidal rollformers and sandwich panel rollformers. Samco will sell them in the North American, South American and Indian markets.

A purlin rollformer makes CEE’s and ZEE’s. Many shapes can be made on one rollformer with any hole pattern. The nice feature about the SAMCO PURLINMASTER is it is fully automated with our rapid change features, inline punching and inline rollforming.

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Making rollformers for customers that require customization can be costly. To make it less costly for us, Samco invested in software that would enable us to tryout the material in the rolls on the computer. What many rollform equipment manufacturers do is test the material on new products on the shop floor. If the part doesn’t come out right, often the rolls need to be regrinded. And if the part is very difficult, how many times can the roll tooling be regrinded before they actually need to be remade?

The software we use for our roll tooling on our rollform equipment is called COPRA FEA. It was desined by DATA M in Germany. Samco is the only rollforming equipment manufacturer in North America that is using it to it’s full potential. We will have customers come to us with a part they are thinking about roll forming. We can put it through this software and recommend changes be made to the part to make it less costly to rollform with less passes.

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