Metal Sheet Processing Solution
Blanking and cut-off around a roll former is a shear class: flying (tracking) shear, swing shear, or leveller-plus-shear. Folding long flashings is a folder. Melt, hot strip and CGL are steel-mill equipment. The example below is a flying shear on a delivered order.
Wide-Format Roofing Production Solution
Buyers type “3 m roofing” for four different jobs: a 3 m cut length on a roof mill, a 3 m (or longer) folding brake, a wide shear, or a 3 m outfeed table. Coverage width still follows the panel drawing — typically well under 3 m. The example below is the long CNC folder used for flashings.
Multi-Layer Roofing Solution
One mill that sells two (or three) roof profiles, and a barrel corrugator that sells a curved sheet, are different hosts. The worked example below is barrel corrugation, because that host has locked units (pcs/min). Double-layer has named kW on several quotations. Triple-layer waits for your drawing — there is no single thickness / speed / kW to print as a nameplate.
Tube & Pipe Processing Solution
Pipe-making is several hosts: ERW round/square, lockform duct, a recipe tube (ZP-S40), or punched + laser square tube. Straightening sits on the mill as a station. The example below is ERW 254. HG76 and 114 mill sheets keep their own kW.
Heavy Coil Handling Solution
Coil infeed is a weight class plus a drive: manual expand, electric expand with VFD, hydraulic 10 t with car, or a dual-head that parks a second coil. The example below is a 7 t electric decoiler. A 10 t loading car and a 10 t upender are different machines from the decoiler.
Decorative Embossed Metal Panel Solution
Embossing is a pattern roll pair on a dedicated host or as a station on a panel mill. Motor size follows the strip: heavy 22 kW, light 7.5 kW, or CZ1600 11 kW. Barrel-corrugated roof counted in pcs/min is a forming mill, not this pattern pair.
Rainwater System Solution: Gutters, Elbows & Covers
A rainwater shop is a gutter mill plus fittings. Volume K-style or half-round runs on a roll former. Long flashings run on an 8 m folder. Elbows, leaf-guard covers and reducer pairs are auxiliary machines. The example below is the K-style mill.
Standing Seam Roofing Project Solution
A standing-seam project is a shop mill that forms lock legs, plus an on-roof seamer (and often clips). Confirm lock coverage, seam height and mill class (floor-type, slide or portable) before you add curving.
Arch Roof & Warehouse Building Solution
An “arch roof” search usually means one of four hosts: a jobsite K-span that forms, curves and sews a beamless hall; a shop arch-beam mill; a corrugated line that cuts and bends an arc; or a small curver next to standing seam. The example below is the K-span class.
Roof & Wall Purlin System Solution
Secondary steel for roofs and walls is a section family first: dedicated C, dedicated Z, C/Z interchange, hat, CUZ, or a hydraulic punch/cut package on a C/Z host. The example below is automatic C/Z interchange. Sigma and cold-formed I send the drawing for a custom file.
Insulated Panel Building Solution
Metal sandwich for roofs and walls starts from the core. The example below is a continuous EPS / rock-wool line: 1220 mm feed, 19 stands, two 5 t hydraulic decoilers with cars, 220 V. PU foam, cold-room, glued panel and wood-skin SIP each open a different quotation.
Perimeter Fencing Production Solution
A fence search is a picket and rail family, not one mill. Square + profile palisade, Euro palisade, dual-fence pale, and highway W-beam each keep their own thickness, voltage and decoiler. The example below is the square + profile host.