Passion for successful joining

Designed for use in medium and large series production, the new generation of Rivkle® NEO P107 pneumatic tools are characterised by their ability to work with a force of 3 to 18 kN (M3 to M8 steel), ensuring efficient production of 36 Rivkle® threaded inserts and studs per minute. Their lightweight design (weighing only 2 kg) and noise level of less than 70 dB (A) makes them optimal for use in industrial environments. Ergonomics have been improved: equipped with a comfortable handle with a redesigned push button, and easy to use with both left and right hands, thanks to the central air connection. Automatic air return and force adjustment for each insert diameter ensure precise and easy operation, avoiding inappropriate adjustments and increasing precision during use.  They are compatible with existing Rivkle® tools. Böllhoff’s Rivclinch® metal joining technology allows steel and stainless steel, aluminium and other non-ferrous materials to be joined together in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way. The first step in this clinching process is to insert the materials into the die through the mould. As soon as the lower part of the material rests on the anvil of the die, it begins to flow sideways. In this process, the movable segments of the die then move outwards. The sliding of the materials generates the closing head. The die then returns to its starting position and the joined part can be removed. A spring brings the side pieces of the die together. The point deformation of the material creates a form and force fit joint. The Rivclinch® joining system can be adapted to existing presses and also be used in special machines. Single or multiple points can be produced simultaneously. The system can be integrated in manual tools, on robots and in work stations. In particular, the 100% pneumatic Rivclinch® 0706 IP system is suitable for joining large and thick sheet metal frames and profiles, such as ventilation ducts, door frames, etc., up to a total thickness of 4.5 mm. […]

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Servo press and leading metal stamping technology

The LAMIERA2025, Italy’s leading industrial exhibition will be held from May 6 to 9, 2025 at fieramilano Rho. SEYI-Europe will introduce its servo press and leading metal stamping technology at Hall 15, Stand G01 at LAMIERA 2025. SEYI offers direct-drive servo presses that range from 80 – 2400 tons and vary from 1-point to 4-points, depending on the bolster size. With C-frames, unitized frames, and tie-rod straight-side frames, SEYI offers a diverse range of servo presses suitable for any application in metal forming. Manufacturers can fulfill various stamping processes with a standalone press or integrated with a complete tandem line. SEYI’s powerful servo motor and control system allows manufacturers to have complete control of the stroke to optimize the production for every part. The parameters of different slide profiles are easily programmed on the user-friendly HMI interface. For example, the slide can move slowly through the working portion of the stroke to prevent cracking of the stamped parts but move rapidly throughout the rest of the stroke to improve productivity. The main features of SEYI’s Servo Presses include the following: Direct-Drive Transmission: The servo motor integrates the pinion shaft directly into the motor. In-House Designed Servo Motor: Low-speed, high-torque is the most critical characteristic of SEYI’s servo motor, making the motor suitable for forming high-strength steel, aluminum, and other difficult-to-form materials. Energy-Saving Advantage: The servo motor is engineered with a power leveling and power regeneration design to reduce its energy usage. Low Noise: The production noise can be largely reduced by replacing the flywheel with the servo motor. SEYI’s Press Machine Products Awarded the Energy-Saving Gold Label in the Machine Tool Industry In December 2024, SEYI’s SD1 Servo Press and SNS2 Crank Press earned the Energy-Saving Gold Label for their innovative designs, cutting energy use by over 50% and reducing carbon emissions significantly. SEYI continues advancing green manufacturing through collaborations and low-carbon solutions. The results of the 2nd Energy-Saving Label Evaluation for the machine tool industry, organized by the Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders’ Association (TMBA), were officially announced on December 2, 2024. The SD1 Solid Frame Crank Servo Press is designed with energy-saving and energy-storage concepts, equipped with a dedicated servo motor that allows for power regeneration. This versatile series is ideal for processing automotive components, consumer electronics, and household appliances, achieving optimal forming in processes like blanking, drawing, and material spring back correction. Utilizing progressive dies with pendulum motion, its productivity can increase nearly twofold while saving over 50% in energy consumption. SEYI-Europe will attend LAMIERA 2025, to showcase its newest technology offerings to the metal stamping community in Italy. We look forward to welcoming you to our booth and sharing the future of metal stamping technology with you. […]

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Raw material savings up to 15%

In a global context marked by economic instability and new regulations such as the CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism), manufacturing companies are looking for practical solutions to optimize raw material procurement. The MetalWeek™ platform introduces an innovative way to monitor and forecast commodity price trends, offering potential savings of up to 15% compared to major global exchanges. Through the Commodity Lounge™ concept, market price dynamics are directly integrated into business decision-making processes, providing a powerful tool to boost purchasing strategies. The system goes beyond traditional financial models, using a real-time algorithm that processes actual trading prices and turns them into reliable trend indicators. The platform is usable on a daily basis and gives full visibility on the price evolution of key commodities (metals, alloys, steel, but also soft commodities), offering a significant competitive advantage—especially for companies facing the challenges of the green transition and emissions cost management. LAMIERA 2025 will be the perfect opportunity to explore how data analysis applied to the metals industry can become a strategic driver for industrial growth. […]

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Advancing air quality in metalworking

With over 50 years of expertise in air filtration solutions for the metalworking industry, Donaldson will showcase a comprehensive range of products and services at LAMIERA. Visitors can experience a live demonstration of the Downflo® Evolution (DFE) cartridge dust collector, featuring Ultra-Web® filters for high-efficiency capture of fine metal dust and fumes. The DFE system, designed for durability and energy efficiency, integrates downward airflow technology and an advanced pulse cleaning system to extend filter life and reduce maintenance. Donaldson will also highlight the Downflo® Evolution Pre-assembled (DFPRE) dust collectors, offering flexible installation options, and the PowerCore® dust collectors, known for their compact yet powerful filtration capabilities. Beyond individual products, Donaldson offers a complete ecosystem of air filtration solutions, extending from site services to high-quality replacement filters compatible with both Donaldson and other brands’ dust collectors. This allows customers to maintain and enhance their existing systems with Donaldson’s trusted quality. With a focus on optimizing performance, ensuring regulatory compliance, and minimizing downtime, Donaldson provides businesses with the tools and support needed for long-term operational efficiency and peace of mind. […]

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Professional Training for Welders, Metal Fabricators, and Pipefitters

Our metalworking school offers professional courses for welders, pipefitters, and metal fabricators, aiming to provide hands-on training that equips students with essential skills, helps them obtain certification, and quickly enter the workforce. Welding is one of the most in-demand and well-paid trades, and over the past forty years, we have trained thousands of professionals who now work worldwide. With our training program, students can earn the International Welding Certification, recognized globally under the UNI EN ISO 9606 standard and issued by top international certification bodies such as IIS, DNV, TUV, RINA, and Bureau Veritas. If a student does not pass the certification exam, they can retake it as many times as needed at no additional cost. Our courses are available in several Italian provinces when at least five students enroll, or anytime at our Campus—the largest Welding Campus in Europe—where we provide free accommodation and meals for the entire duration of the intensive course. Throughout the program, students work on real metal structures and pipelines, practicing in different positions and with materials such as carbon steel, aluminum, and stainless steel. The most sought-after welders in the job market specialize in MIG/MAG welding, TIG welding, and electrode welding. MIG/MAG welders are highly in demand for metal structures, shipbuilding, trains, aircraft, cars, bridges, tanks, and machinery. On the other hand, TIG and electrode welders are essential for energy plants, pharmaceutical and food industries, petrochemical installations, aqueducts, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, and refineries. […]

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WELD CLEANOX S-DIGIT electrochemical system

WELD CLEANOX S-DIGIT electrochemical system with digital adjustment of the functions and equipped with an intuitive multilingual display. This innovative electrochemical system allows you to carry out the classic processes: DEGREASING, PICKLING, ELECTROPOLISHING, PASSIVATION and MARKING. The possibility of being able to carry out the treatments and work with TWO OPERATORS at the same time will increase your productive power. WELD CLEANOX S-DIGIT is the ideal solution for the instant ecological cleaning of welds and large stainless steel surfaces. On stainless steel for all types of surface finishes, optimizing times and in safety for the operator. […]

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Quality, efficiency, reliability and customer orientation

L.D.M. OFFICINA MECCANICA SRL is Machinery Company and has 46 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, installation and startup of coil processing machines for all kinds of steel and nonferrous metals of 0.3-16 mm thickness.  Today the main investment policy of LDM is the constant increase of the quality of produced machineries though using the most up-to-date technologies and design solutions, as well as the highest accuracy of CNC machine-tools used in the production. The LDM management considers that “Only in this case, it’s possible to offer  the most up-to-date, reliable and  quick returning costs  new equipment  to their clients  including the highest  technical and operation  parameters”. Equipment of the LDM have been supplied to many countries of the world (Italy, Germany, Poland, Morocco, Syria, Spain, Argentina, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Argentina, CIS countries etc.). Equipment of the LDM is known for its competitiveness in terms of value for money, and the herself LDM is known for its customer focus. The LDM designs and builds the following coil processing lines:  Fine leveling machines and cut-to-length lines  Slitting lines  Coil rewinding lines Revamping  used  lines following the latest  technologies  The LDM company also provides its customers a complete package of services, such as: Installation and/or supervision of assembly works; Set-up of the machines and lines supplied; Training of customer personnel on the use and maintenance of the lines supplied; Warranty of the systems supplied in accordance with existing international standards; Remote assistance via modem for monitoring the operation of electrical and electronic equipment and resolving any faults detected during the warranty period; After-sales service including remote assistance and visits by our technicians for ordinary or extraordinary maintenance; Telephone consultation, even after the end of the warranty period; Regular supply of spare parts, wear and consumables. […]

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Two excellences, one reality

AlloriTools was born from the synergy between two historic companies, Gennelli Allori and Microtools, both recognized as leaders in the production of equipment and tools for tube and sheet metal processing. With over 50 years of proven experience, AlloriTools positions itself as a reference point, offering a wide and specialized range of products. Gennelli Allori has always been synonymous with absolute quality in the production of punches, dies, and special tools for sheet metal bending and punching. Meanwhile, Microtools, founded in 1998, stands out for its excellence in the design and production of tools and equipment dedicated to tube bending and endforming. The meeting of these two historic brands has given rise AlloriTools, a company that now offers a complete range of tools for punching and bending machines, along with innovative equipment for tube bending and endforming machines. Thanks to continuous investment in research and development, AlloriTools provides highly customized solutions, to satisfay the most demanding customers requests. By visiting our stand at the Lamiera exhibition, you will have the exclusive opportunity to discover our latest news, new machines for tooling grinder and tube end forming. AlloriTools: a stronger reality for your needs. […]

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X-WAVE and X-TUBE

X-WAVE – LASER WELDING CELL  From the relentless research and development activities of Becky engineers comes the ultra-compact X-WAVE 1208C laser welding cell with useful working area of 1200x800mm. Equipped with state-of-the-art Cobot systems with wrist capacities of 5kg or 10kg and 1500W or 3000W X-WAVE laser sources, the 1208C cell is unique and is the ideal tool for welding small and medium-sized mass-produced items. Through the programming touch pad or the very convenient remote control, it is possible to program a weld by following 4 simple steps: 1-setting the approach point -2) setting the start point- 3) setting the end point- 4) setting the exit point. The collaborative robots used by Becky feature a lightweight design and offer a repeatable positioning accuracy of +/- 0.02mm. Equipped with an automatic welding head that is also capable of handling Wobbling welds and an internal camera to view the welding line in Real Time the X-WAVE 1208C Cobot cell can perform welding operations with great precision and repeatability. X-WAVE COBOT – Accurate, Tireless and Collaborative X-TUBE – LASER CUTTING MACHINE FOR TUBE AND PROFILES The X-TUBE A24-65 CT machine exhibited at the fair LAMIERA 2025 is the “top seller” model in BECKY’s laser tube cutting product range. With the capacity to process tubes up to 220 mm diameter and lengths up to 6 meters the machine offers very high flexibility for processing tubes with circular, square, rectangular section, L and T profiles and beams such as IPE, UPN, HEA , HEB. The machine is equipped as standard with a Bevel cutting head with an inclination of +/- 45° thanks to which it is possible to prepare the edges for subsequent welding operations. Available with power ratings of 3KW and 6KW X-TUBE guarantees easy of use and excellent performance. The X-TUBE series machines are equipped with a CNC developed by BECKY, featuring a 21” LCD touch screen color monitor, user-friendly HMI interface and complete with all LASER functions. The CNC controls all machine axes, including auxiliary axes for tube loading and unloading, the laser source, and the cutting head. The installed X-TUBE software manages all status information with alarm codes and allows dynamic management of work processes. Within the software are all the technology tables by material – thickness installed and developed by BECKY The range of BECKY tube cutting machines is completed with 3- and 4-spindle solutions for diameters of 300mm – 400mm and 720mm with lengths in loading and unloading up to 12 meters. […]

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Double sheet detection and weld seam position

This year ROLAND Electronic GmbH celebrated 60 years of being a leading manufacturer of control units and sensors for the sheet metal working industry. ROLAND proven systems ensure reliable monitoring for double sheet and weld seam detection in automated feeding systems. The use of these technologies helps to avoid production machine failures, destruction of tools and high-cost repairs. The UDK20 double sheet detector combines electromagnetic and eddy current measurement principles. It is suitable for the control of ferrous and non-ferrous materials, is programmable for 255 different combination types and communicates via the main available Field Bus. The SND40 weld seam detector is a combination of digital evaluation and control technology via Magnetic Flux and Eddy Currents. SND40 reliably solves the difficult tasks of positioning and detection of the weld seam in pipes and welded tubes that must be positioned correctly before being processed. […]

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