Roller King supplies HD-F50 slide forming machine

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Dec 10, 2009

Hettich Holding and Co, a manufacturer of thermoforming and packaging systems in Germany, has purchased a fully automatic HD-F50 slide forming machine from Roller King Enterprise.

Hettich develops, manufactures and sells furniture and cabinetry hardware, including a range of hinges for glass and wood doors, drawers and runner systems for kitchen or office furniture, folding- and sliding-door mechanisms, connecting fittings and complete hardware systems.

The company discovered Roller King for forming machine design and manufacture.

The forming machine requirements from Hettich included: more than 30 rollers with various sizes; complex roll-formed products; a 14kg weight tolerance capability; an accuracy reach of 0.01mm; a pull test of more than 50,000 times; a 25-year usability guarantee; and a speed nine times faster than the usual production speed.

Roller King fulfilled Hettich's forming machine requirements with: a German Copra Rollscanner and Copra FTM simulation for its roll design; a CNC-lathe high-speed computerised numerical control; an AC servodrive system; a Japanese Mitutoyo 3D test machine; a Japanese machine centre of the VMC-2090A Conquest series; a hardness precision of 0.01mm; auto CAD precision of 0.001mm; 24-hour maintenance; a test report; and CE certification.