Samco Roll Forming Blog

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.

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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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.

Metal Shingle, Spanish Tile, Fiesta Roof Tile…whatever you want to call it…is becoming more popular for metal roofing. We are seeing an increase in South America and Mexico mainly. The durability and attractiveness is what is making it so popular. Samco makes the roll forming equipment to make this type of metal roofing. Samco’s Roof tile roll forming lines make the highest quality tiles in the world.

The rollformers use AMS controls and Eclipse software if that is what the customer wants. Eclipse software is used as a resource planning system for the entire manufacturing company. Every steel coil can be tracked right through to the end roof tile being delivered. This can be used for multiple locations.