Category: Plate Beveler

You’ve purchased your press brake or plate roll, and now all you need is some welding equipment to create metal boxes or round tanks, right? Maybe—if all you are working with is thin sheet metal. If you are planning to weld thicker plate metal after bending or rolling it, however, you likely will need an additional piece of equipment—a plate beveler.

Beveling plate metal is a common preparatory process in metal fabrication, especially in welding, machining, and structural work. The beveling process involves angling or sloping the edges of the metal plate to remove the 90° sharp edge and create an angled surface. This angled edge, called a bevel, serves various purposes depending on the application and the metalworking techniques being employed.

The Angle on Plate Beveling The noun bevel means an angle that is cut into the edge of a structure like a steel plate that isn’t at 90° to the plate face. The verb bevel means to create such an angle by cutting or grinding. It should be noted that in US usage, the terms […]