QUTEC METAL FORMING / BENDING SERVICES
Components used in the manufacture of any product often start life as sheet metal that needs to be formed or bent into the correct shape for their intended use.
At QuTec, we take pride in supplying professional sheet metal forming services performed to the highest standard by our team of skilled operators.
We guarantee quality and precision in our work so our customers can be confident that the end result will not only meet their specifications, but also exceed their expectations of a metal bending service provider.
Catering for a variety of metal forming requirements
We know that every customer will have a range of different requirements when looking for a metal forming service. This is why we are committed to ensuring that our equipment can deliver the solutions that our customers need, whatever they may be. We therefore invest in machinery that can handle a range of different specifications for a variety of different projects for maximum customer satisfaction.
Our company’s combination of skilled operators and top quality machinery means we can provide a variety of sheet metal solutions for our customers. We have minimised our limitations by ensuring that our press brakes can accommodate a range of different metals, including mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium, and material sizes up to four metres in length. They also have a bending and forming capacity of up to 170 tonnes, so our customers can be confident that our machinery can produce the components they need, formed to their exact specifications.
Providing an expert and professional metal bending service
The directors of QuTec have been in the metal forming and fabrication industry for over 50 years, during which time they have built a metal forming company consisting of a highly skilled, professional team of experts to work with customers on their metalwork requirements. Our press brake operators are fully trained to use the machinery with the utmost proficiency and have developed their skill to ensure they can provide sheet metal bending services in which our customers can have maximum confidence.
Contact QuTec for more information on our metal forming/bending services
If you would like to find out how we can help you with your metal bending and forming requirements, or to discuss whether we can provide solutions that meet your specifications, please contact our team who will be happy to give you more information about our services.
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What is Press Brake bending or forming?
Our press brake and metal forming service are one of the oldest methods of forming sheet metal and plates, it has stood the test of time due to its simplicity, accuracy, flexibility and low cost per piece. The machinery has of course moved on and most press brakes are now fully CNC, making them very accurate. This is critical for our customers, as many will order in batches and the consistency and quality offered today to give them the confidence to order those same parts tomorrow.
The simplicity of the sheet metal bending process means that the metals that can be formed are vast. The most common materials that we are requested to form are Stainless Steel, Aluminium, and Mild Steel. However, other stock metals are requested to be formed by our customers, such as our Copper, Titanium, and Brass to name a few are also not uncommon.
The flexibility and speed offered by our Press Brake Forming Service and the low cost per piece allow us to offer our customers the ability to form anything. We work with a wide range of complexity from single items, such as Angles (of almost any degree), Channels, and multi-form complicated brackets, all the way through to a consistent and repeatable medium to large run volumes.
What material thickness can be put on a Brake Press?
0.2mm to 12mm is the range of thickness but tonnage restricts the length of form the thicker the material.
Advantages of Press Brake Forming
- The CNC press brake is easy to program and operate
- The CNC press brake can be set very quickly from one job to the next.
- It is an ideal process for batch work.
- Very complicated forms and profiles are achievable using standard tooling.
- Replacement/additional tooling is readily available and not costly compared to power press tooling.
- Modern press brake tools are also becoming lighter and simpler to install to speed up manufacturing even more.
- Current machines are also able to produce more unique pieces because of the variety of software designs that can be run through the CNC system.
- 3D graphic representations of the metal bending process allow workers to visualize the process and reorder the machine’s sequence if necessary, without manually refitting all the tools, previously a highly skilled worker’s job.
Disadvantages of Press Brake Forming
- Can only produce one form at a time.
- Not as cost-effective on high volume, regular running work although modern press brakes create better bends much faster with current technology.
