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Roll forming services

Roll forming at Midwest Metal Fabrication.

Roll forming is a continuous bending operation in the metal forming process during which either metal sheet or strip metal is plastically deformed along a linear axis by being passed through a series of roller dies that progressively shape and contour the metal.

To view details about our roll forming services, please select one of the links below:

• Roll forming overview
• Material gauge
• Materials roll formed
• Width
• Tolerance
• Coil size
• Tooling options
• Run size/volume
• Forming speed
• Run out table length
• Specialized shapes
• Specialized in-line processes
• Complementary services
  

Roll forming overview

Midwest Metal Fabrication offers medium to large roll forming capabilities. We operate a roll former with a 200 H.P. motor, a 4.5” shaft diameter, and 12 tooling stands. We focus on providing unique, cost-saving, solutions to heavy-gauge customer roll forming problems. We attempt to provide innovative roll forming metal fabricating solutions to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that have unique roll forming requirements or issues.

Material gauge

Midwest Metal Fabrication has medium to large roll forming equipment. We can roll form metal up to ¼” or ~ 7-gauge and roll form up to a 90 °angle into the workpiece. We can also form other lighter gauges as well with a minimum of 18-guage.

Materials roll formed

We can roll form virtually any common metal or metal alloy to a customer's specifications. The most common metals we roll form include:

• Aluminized types 1 & 2
• Aluminum
• Cold-rolled CQ (Commercial Quality)
• Galvannealed
• High strength steel
• Galvanized steel
• Hot-rolled P&O (pickled and oiled)
• Mild steel
• Pre-painted sheet metal, and
• Stainless steel

We also can roll form copper and galvannealed steel.

Width

Midwest Metal Fabrication provides heavy-gauge, quality precision formed roll-forming services and custom roll formed shapes for OEM customers.

Our roll forming equipment can form heavy gauge metals up to 30" wide. We can roll form metal with a gauge as thin as 0.010" and as thick as 0.250". We can roll form widths as narrow as the limitations of the tooling.

Tolerance

Midwest Metal Fabrication’s roll forming equipment can hold the tolerances of +/- 1/16” on length and 1/32” on width.

Coil size

Midwest Metal Fabrication's roll formers can handle coils up to 15,000 pounds.

Tooling options

Midwest Metal Fabrication provides turnkey roll forming operations. We'll take a customer's existing tooling and run production or we will take on a project from the ground up creating the necessary tooling. We will pay for tooling that is incorporated into the job based on volume. Our customers are our best investment.

Run size/volume

Midwest Metal Fabrication requires a 5000-foot minimum run without any maximum run size.

Forming speed

Our forming speed is contingent on the thickness and shape of the material being roll formed. Midwest Metal Fabrication can roll form 9-gauge, U shape, at 100 feet per minute as an example.

Run out table length

Midwest Metal Fabrication’s run out table length is 40’.

Specialized shapes

We offer unique roll forming capabilities providing:

• Angles,
• “C” shapes,
• “U” shapes,
• Hat shapes,
• Custom shapes, and
• Unbalanced “C” shapes

virtually any roll formed profile our customers may require.

Specialized in-line processes

Midwest Metal Fabrication has the ability to offset the ends of the finished metal sheet, in-line, post roll forming. Our offering of in-line offsetting is a unique and specialized process provided by few other roll forming operations.

Complementary services

We also offer post roll formed component punching, off-line. Providing this service off-line significantly increases punching accuracy.

Other complimentary services include welding, painting, and assembly services for our roll-formed components.

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Call us today at 1-219-931-3131, email us at sales@midwestmetalfabrication.com, or send a fax using 1-219-844-8512 to get a quick quote to help solve your heavy gauge steel fabricating problems.