Tag: METAL BENDING

When You Need to Build an Airplane Not long ago the owner of a fabrication company needed to make some intricate curves in metal that altered their geometry along the length of the workpiece. Realizing that it resembled the varying contours found in an aircraft wing, he learned that a machine known as an aircraft […]

Causing Depression for Thousands of Years The concept of pressing goes back to prehistoric times when it was discovered that things could be crushed or flattened between two rocks. As time progressed, the use of two flat pieces of wood or metal to press an object between them became commonplace. Instead of just relying on […]

A Roll by Any Other Name “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare No other machine tool or piece of metal fabrication equipment has as many different names as does the everyday profile roll—a machine designed to put a curve into […]