Samco Rollforming Blog

Steel framing is becoming a much more popluar choice for commercial, industrial and residential construction. Steel studs are much stronger than wood because they can withstand all elements that different climates face. Elements such as termites and fires, just to name a few.

We get many calls from companies looking to rollform steel stud and track. Many times these people don’t know where to get started. The education we give them is what the most popular sizes are and the difference between structural and drywall stud. We now have a page for those looking to rollform stud and track that will explain the differences between the the load bearing and non load bearing.

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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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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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Samco fully believes it is an advantage to our customers to make most of our rollforming systems under one roof. We have 25 engineers on staff including roll tooling, mechanical and electrical. Our project manager can manage everything that goes into the manufacturing of the roll former. From the uncoiler, to the flattener, to presses and cut-off press and rolls and in some cases even the packaging equipment, we design it and manufacture it all here.

We always use brand name electrical components on the rollforming equipment. Our rollformers are delivered all over the world. We don’t want a roll former to break down across the ocean because of a cheap electrical switch so we make sure we know every single part that is used and can gaurantee unnessary breakdowns. Samco prides itself and quality roll tooling and rollforming equipment, we want to uphold that reputation.

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